When Intent Leads to Inner Turmoil

Intent is awesome, it is a picture in our mind of something we want to achieve!
The problem begins when intent is not followed by action! Intent is an inner thought process that cannot be perceived by others; they can only see our actions.
Sometimes our intent is overtaken by events –we intend to offer assistance but somebody else helps out first- this is OK and we move on quickly.
If our intent is something more (One day I intend to do…?…!) then it will cause inner torment if we are not doing something each day to help realise our intent.
If our actions don’t meet our intent then it causes what Psychologists call Cognitive Dissonance (psychological stress) because our actions are inconsistent with our thoughts.
Intention is the mother of invention as things are created in our thoughts before they are physically created. If we want to avoid inner torment caused by Dissonance then we must follow intent with action, our deeds must equal our thoughts!

We are judged not by our intent, but by our actions.  Take action today!