It's not about intent. It's about impact.

Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.

Syncing life and its intentions is the first step towards a successful life. Hence, identifying your intentions and visualizing them is perhaps the essential move in the right direction.

Deciding and living with intentions is like setting a specific spot of destination on the map, and then this map guides you to the perfect path that is your destination or goal.

Deciding intentions comes from visualizing your preferences and affirming them, and as a result, all these affirmations and goals will prompt the brain and the universe to save from any interruptions or distractions.

If your only intent is to be seen, you'll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you're destined to be noticed.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, and determines your destiny.

When we are accountable to someone else we are much more likely to action change.

?If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

As leaders, we almost always have great intentions - our intent is typically positive. However, if you’ve been leading for a while, you will recognise there are times when people might misunderstand your intent - that your intent is not the same as your impact. And that creates problems for us - it leads to miscommunication and can create distrust.?

Why is it that we want to do things and yet we don’t?

I think it’s because we as humans can be pretty good at sabotaging ourselves or perhaps we just get so set in our ways that making small changes can often be difficult despite knowing the positive effect these changes could have on us.

?Don’t under estimate the power of small steps and their ability to create great change.

?They are easier to implement, are sustainable and manageable.

?We can often resist change?when our goals are bigger than our energy levels, our time availability, and perhaps, our courage.?

?Making SMALL changes, however, is not SO difficult and yet these changes can have huge impact.

Very significant, changes you can make!???

Rise and Shine – set your alarm 30 minutes earlier to enjoy the peace of the morning. You may choose to mediate, enjoy the sunrise, spend time in nature or write in your journal.

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Thank you ….Have a digital detox at least one day a month. I try to do this most Sundays. On your way home from work whether on a bus, on a train or in the car, how about not looking at your phone for the whole trip. Use this time to day dream, create,be mindful.

Tackle that one thing you have been putting off. Book in that doctors appointment, spring clean your wardrobe, and enrol in that course.

Keep a bottle of water on your desk, add some lemon slices for added flavour and Vit C punch.

Perhaps your one thing could be to watch the sun set – it could be as simple as that.

We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can't remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do - despite your circumstances - are to be present and to be willing to love.

I spend a lot of time talking with friends and colleagues about societal issues that we find meaningful and important. Racism. Sexism. Cultural sensitivity. Prejudice. Implicit biases.

This is a line that we often find ourselves repeating:

"It's not about intent. It's about impact."

Do you want to add a word or two?....

It came up in a discussion with several friends in reference to an article ?noting the similarities between Color Runs and the Hindu religious festival Holi. Guess what? If you say something and you make someone feel seriously uncomfortable, it’s now on you to give serious consideration to why that person might feel that way.

That’s how empathy and being a nice human being works." The overall message in all of these conversations is that when someone does something hurtful or offensive to another person, the perpetrator's intent is not what's most important when gauging the appropriateness of an action.

?So, the point is that we really need to focus on impact, not intent.

Was someone hurt by something?

Was there a negative outcome?

Did someone suffer?

If so, that is what’s important. Whether or not the perpetrator meant to cause harm is not.

I want to be very clear that I agree with the importance of emphasizing impact over intent. I also recognize the fact that no one is claiming this process of learning to focus on impact (vs. intent) is supposed to be easy.

Your Comments……

I have never heard anyone allege that this process is supposed to come naturally to people. However, there's a fundamental issue in this "intent vs. impact" distinction. Pitting intent versus impact presumes that the two are orthogonal -- when, in fact, they very much are not.

We see evidence that intent and impact are not orthogonal in the literature on morality, as well. According to this model, we judge the degree of (im) morality present in a situation by gauging the amount of intent and experience involved – actions with higher levels of suffering and higher levels of harmful intent are seen as more immoral.

When we talk about intent vs. impact, we are often focusing on the perpetrator's intentions and the victim's felt impacts.

Because these are occurring across two separate people, it's easy for us to think of these constructs as orthogonal -- and to encourage people to consider impacts independently of intents. But unfortunately, we live in a really messy world, filled with really messy minds that don't always think rationally.

Observers' judgments of impacts will almost certainly be swayed by perceived intentions -- so the sheer act of encouraging people to focus on the impacts (rather than the intentions) is not necessarily a good strategy, as those very perceptions of "impacts" (and how severe they are) will already have been biased by presumed intentions.

It would be great if we could live in a world where "intent" and "impact" could be separated from each other and analyzed orthogonally. Unfortunately, it really does not seem possible for this to truly happen.

Of course, again, I want to be perfectly clear that I am in no way saying that we should not be considering impacts as more important (or meaningful) than intentions.

If anything, it places them both as equal contributors to people's perceptions and attributions. But it is a cognitive bias that can explain why it is difficult for people to focus solely on impacts. But it points to a reason why people might be biased towards focusing on intents rather than impacts, and why those of us struggling to emphasize this “intent vs. impact” point might be hitting a wall.

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