The Direction of Intention

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Join me in inspiring truly powerful people. Each day I will add a new thought, story or idea to support your quest and mine.

To truly powerful people seeing is not passive, it is a creative act.

A truly powerful person knows that you are not merely the receiver of visual information, you are also the interpreter of it. You are the giver of meaning to everything you see. You are the giver of meaning to everything that you experience.

As the giver of meaning you also become the guardian of your personal stories. Personal stories can be like territory: you stake a claim in how you identify your self and you lock in the bank the stories that justify your claim. Every vault requires a dragon.

Stories resist containment. Stories thrive when they are shared. When locked in a vault they fight to get out. They become too much energy in too small a space and it takes more and more effort to deny that there is something of value locked in the vault. The dragon has to work harder.

What stories are locked in the vault? What roles do you justify? Who might you become if you opened the vault and let your stories – your claims, all of them, see the light of day? What assumptions might drop away? What new job would you give your dragon if it no longer had to protect what you’ve  locked away in the cave?

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