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:

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

I love this time of year. As year end holidays meet the coming year, it's almost as if time takes a pause, like that space between inhale and exhale. Time stands still momentarily and we switch gears from thankful reflection to forward intention and motion. That pause is sometimes the focal point for mindfulness practice, as it is one of the more ignored moments of our lives.

Even if you've never been a client or student of mine, I invite you to take part in an exercise that honors this moment. Take a sheet of paper and fold it in half. On one side reflect back through 2016 and list your accomplishments that can be celebrated, big and small. On the other side, write a list of things you'd like to see manifest in 2017.

The crease in the center of the paper is this moment of pause. This moment of turning the corner from reflection to your coming future. I invite you to bask in this moment, because if you have been a client of mine, you know that your 2017 list has a strong potential of coming true. Particularly if you make an honest and authentic commitment to it.