Intention – It’s Creative
October 24, 2009 by Mary Wynne-Wynter
Intention: the “I” in DRIVE
One of the 5 elements of the RedShift DRIVE Self-Awareness and Change Leadership Model, and key to shifting identity in the metaphysical dimension, is Intention.
“Be the change you want” is an increasingly popular personal development and leadership intention, in this context defined as where we direct our attention or what we identify with. Its often coupled with “we can change the world” and both relate to thought and action. Consultants often call it some version of “to drive change”.
This approach presumes outward intention, and how to respond in new and sometimes more conscious ways to things that are happening to us and our world. Outward intention is attention directed at form and matter, a tiny percentage of the totality of existence to which we ascribe tremendous dominion and then against which we must endlessly struggle in attempt to control.
The resulting suffering we see all around us is evidence that we also need to go within. To allow ourselves and lead others to shift attention inward, on the formless and invisible, is to relinquish control and to take the hands off the wheel. This creates space for new conditions in which change can take place and for receiving the greater intelligence and guidance that’s always available but rarely has the right of way.
Life is change and evolution. To draw a boundary between us and evolution, accepting only what we think is good and rejecting what we think is bad pits us against life and change. But the proof is getting harder to deny – who knows what’s good or bad?
To paraphrase Eckhart Tolle, life is the driver and you (we) are the DRIVE. Time, distance and the conditions along the way matter less when we let go of the ways and means and will to get to where we want to be. Its not as hard as it sounds if you just live and lead as if you’re already there.
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