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When you create, whats the intention behind it? Do you know how much of a difference creating with intention can make to your creative life and creative projects?

When you have clear intentions, youre able to focus more clearly and move more easily towards them.

Your internal forces seem to unite in a common direction and with a common purpose and you move forward more swiftly and smoothly.

Something I learned when attending acting classes was to act in the class with intention. The tutor asked: Why do you come to this acting class? Whats your intention, what do you hope to get from it?.

He explained that when his students had this intention in the back of their minds, they get more from the class, because they pick out the parts that serve their intention best. They make the most of the exercises that are relevant and move on from those that dont.

When you're clear about your intentions, you also become more attuned to the opportunities that arise for you.

You know which will take you in the direction you want to go. If you know that youre working towards specific aims even though the art youre creating may still be diverse and spontaneous you become more open to the pathways that will lead you where you want to go.

Intentions can sometimes be very specific.

For example "I want to write 3 chapters of my novel within the next month."

Others are more of a directional intention than an destination intention.

For example in my acting class, my intention was to become more confident and expressive in using my voice.

There was not necessarily a definitive point or state I was expecting to reach, but having that intention somewhere in my mind allowed me to constantly be aware of this in the course of the classes and make the exercises more relevant and useful to me.

What in your creative life do you have clear intentions for?

What do you have a strong picture of in your head, about how you'd things to be?

What other things in your creative life are you unclear about? Areas where you have no clear intentions and maybe you feel you're simply drifting rather than working steadily towards a goal or in a particular direction?

What differences do you notice between the areas where you have a strong intention and those you don't?

What steps can you take today to become more clear in your intentions in all areas of your creative life? Pick one to start with, then build from there.

I invite you to take the next step to help you increase your creativity today.

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From Creativity Coach Dan Goodwin

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