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2/25/2018

Sowing the Seeds of Intention: Step 3 - Stepping Fully (and Easily!) into Commitment

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An acronym to help keep elephants safe.

In steps one and two of Sowing the Seeds of Intention, you explored and clarified your heart's deepest calling at this time. You crafted a powerful vision statement, capturing all you would receive from living this vision. Now, it's time to step fully into the commitment to create it.

Here's an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Mindful and Intentional Living: A Path to Peace, Clarity and Freedom to explain more:

“Commitment is an act, not a word.” ~Jean-Paul Sartre

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2/17/2018

Sowing the Seeds of Intention: Step 2 ~ Setting our Compass

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Young boy feeding elephants at Elephant Valley, Thailand.

In Step 1 of Sowing the Seeds of Intention,
we focused on Illuminating and distilling our heart's calling. In this post, we'll focus on the four parts of clarifying our heart's calling that lead to creating a powerful vision statement and affirmations. This will set our heart's direction for action.

Step 2: Setting Our Compass

A) Review outcomes of Step 1
B) Pull out important statements of truth
C) Draft and refine a vision statement
D) Draft and refine statements of affirmation

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2/17/2018

Sowing the Seeds of Intention: Step 1 ~ Illuminate and Distill the Heart's Calling

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A baby elephant and mother at Elephant Jungle Paradise Park sanctuary outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand

In Part I of this series, we learned the three steps to Sowing the Seeds of Intention:

Illuminate and distill the heart's calling
Set our compass (direction)
Step fully into commitment

Intentionally living in alignment with our deepest calling leads to greater fulfillment and happiness in life. This post focuses on the first in this three step process: illuminate and distill the heart's calling.

Illuminating the heart's calling is really a lifetime expedition, but setting aside time on a regular basis to check in with our heart is a good practice to reveal new truths, deeper callings and possible misalignment with our values.

As I mentioned in the last post, I experienced a values crisis during our latest visit to Thailand. We've been engaging with and learning about elephants on each trip, but this last one really challenged me--enough to shift into action. I'll be sharing this experience as an example to work through sowing the seeds of intention, beginning with the first, Illuminate and distill the heart's calling.

“A highly developed values system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.”
~Idowu Koyenikan

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2/5/2018

Three Steps to Sowing Seeds of Intention (Part I)

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Durian seed sprout. Durian is a large, highly aromatic and popular fruit in Thailand.

(Jim and I returned from Thailand just this past week. The return was rough for us both as we were dealing with ongoing colds, flus, and the stark reality of coming back to our complex lives after being abroad for two months. These are luxury problems, I know! During our travels, many seeds were planted in my heart. You can read more about our trips: 2016-17 and 2017-18.)

While the time for setting New Year's resolutions has passed, sowing seeds of intention can be done anytime and any season.

Our recent weather in Lake County isn't reflecting it, but we're still in the 'wintering over' stage of the earth's seasonal creation cycle. Seeds, while not visible, are deep in the earth's nourishing embrace, readying to germinate. It's a perfect time to mirror the outer stillness of winter, and listen for our heart's innermost desires.

We all have seeds germinating from our heart's deepest desires just ready to emerge. How can we best cultivate the conditions for their successful arising and tend to them for their eventual fruition?

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Sowing the Seeds of Intention: Step 3 - Stepping Fully (and Easily!) into Commitment

Sowing the Seeds of Intention: Step 2 ~ Setting our Compass

Sowing the Seeds of Intention: Step 1 ~ Illuminate and Distill the Heart's Calling

Three Steps to Sowing Seeds of Intention (Part I)

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