Where do you imagine yourself to be on this day next year? What do you see yourself doing?
Will you be living in the same home, city, country? At your current job? Inviting new friends or relationships into your life or parting with old ones?
I still need to sit down with my notebook and pen to reflect on the past year and set intentions for the year–and years–ahead, but I can say with good confidence that I’ll be changed in several ways. I’ll be wiser, I’ll laugh more, I’ll be a stronger public speaker, I’ll have completed my first marathon, I’ll be married and I’ll have experienced times of self doubt and times of invincibility.
About olivia
Olivia Kuhn-Lloyd believes in the reach of business to effect real social change. She works with companies who are forging a new paradigm of cause capitalism and writes about the power of consumer choice at Cause+Capitalism.
She managed international trade advocacy with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., working with both foreign ambassadors and national business owners to tell their stories.
She left the Chamber to spend a year in the Marshall Islands as a volunteer teacher and journalist. When she returned to the States, she worked with nonprofits and grantmakers in Los Angeles on program development, capital campaigns and executive coaching.
Olivia now works with businesses to integrate social cause at a fundamental level and build community around the product or service. She lives in Santa Monica, CA.
Wow. No way to say. Given the astounding changes in the landscape of y life between last year and now, I can't even imagine what's in store for me.
But I have a feeling that if I stay open to things, open to God's will for me, it'll be one heck of a trip!
To say anything more…I think I'd shortchange myself.
I love your thoughtful questions!
I will be 25 years old and a day.. YIKES. I'm hoping I will still be in Los Angeles with the same boyfriend and same friends but more disciplined, focused, and spiritually mature. I'll still be making artwork, enjoying the present moment, and loving living. I'll have a few awesome nature hikes under my belt. I'll be reminiscing over this blog comment and thinking "Ohhh, yeaaaah." I'll be patting myself on the back for having spent 2009 volunteering more, living more, loving more.
(Preemptive congrats on getting married!)
This day next year my flow with my supersymmetry will be more smooth. My consciousness will be better. My prana will move more in my realm of consciousness. I will float in my consciousness more.
Rajesh
Thank you for this post!
Next year at this time, I will have moved into an apartment rooming with a close and good friend. I will have a flexible and well-paying job/assistantship at my university. I will be in a serious relationship with my soulmate. I will spend Christmas and New Years with both my mom and brother and friends and loved ones. I will be wiser, more peaceful, healthy, happy, content, hopeful and excited. It will be wonderful.
You've asked some intriguing things – and I, too, thank you for the post!
At this time next year, things will be all different again…..(we are all about setting intentions here, right? so i can feel comfortable visualizing!)
My son will have graduated from college and will likely be back home with us while he determines his purpose, gets a job, decides whether to go to graduate or law school, etc, while his dad and I, meanwhile, have "downsized" to a house the perfect size for the two of us, since the family home had become too big with our only son away 90% of the year in college, out of state…… Soooo…. we will be crowded, maybe – or "cozy"…….We will have a dog that is maturing – maybe two dogs! – who will, of course, never fully replace the loving dog we lost a year ago……..we will have a new President (thank you, universe) and a renewed sense of community in our country.and planet…. my business (interior design) will be abundant, again……. and the consciousness shift that is nascent in the world and universe will bring a great awakening!
These are the things I am focusing on and can "see"…..
Have a wonderful holiday and glorious New Year! Jann
Hi Olivia,
Thank you for your insight and inspiration … a good idea. A blessed Holiday time and an abundant New Year to you.
In Peace,
Tom
Olivia…This is such a lovely question!
I can't say where I will be or what I will be doing as of now though…I don't view the intents in the same way as everyone here have said so far…to me it more sounds like you guys are setting goals…well with exception of Dana…
The most I can do is close my eyes and visualize and say to you whatever I see when I close my eyes…Also I am currently doing big house cleanings and redecorating at home alongside my mum and my own personal space is currently almost done…cause it was such a major cleaning and some new furnishings etc…and getting rid of old clothes etc…I'm feeling very at peace and light right now…and when I visualise I keep seeing myself lying in the grass under a tree…reading and writing…writing with pen and paper not typing…I also look and feel like I'm not more that 14 say!
Well that is the feel and what I see in the visualization…it is someone young in yrs or at lease in look and body language and they are reading without a care in the world like they have forever to be immersed in their reading and writing…the writing usually being about the reading…
While you Olivia, seem to have such bigger things in the air!
Take things as it comes, and make the best of it.
Often, cause of sorrow is 'not getting what i want'. Face things one at a time as it comes. Not to say no planning is needed, but a year in advance could be a little too early…
V C
What a great question Olivia…
It's so hard for me to tell sometimes. It seems like when I set my intentions, I zigzag all over to places I never imagined in order to get to where I want to be. Good luck with your intentions.
Spreading love and light!
Hugs, Lily
When I look at what I was doing on this day last year, life seemed to have completely changed its meaning and I feel a lot happened in last one year. There was a change that was going on for many years but it started taking shape and something that I said in the beginning of this year also took shape at the end of this year.
While you could never imagine correctly what you would be doing on the same date in another year because it always is a surprise- and thank God it is that way, otherwise it would be too boring and predictable…still, some intentions that come from your heart and are reinforced deep do come true.
I see myself much more balanced , living in the present moment, spreading happiness in my vicinity and also where ever I can. I see myself more responsible towards everyone and everything. I see myself learning more lessons from one year and celebrating what we call as life.
That's a good idea. I'm going to sit with a note book over the holidays and put down my intentions for '09.
Interesting question Olivia,
This year has brought so many challenges to my life. Laid off since July, forced to sell the home, bills, etc..I'm sure you all have heard the same ol story. But, It's what I've been doing with this time off that has been a blessing. Walking 4 miles a day, meditation, reflection, working out, spending time with my 8 & 20 yo sons & 16 yo daughter, Not watching TV, reading books by Don Luis Miguel, Deepak Chopra, Caroline Myss, and performing music on the weekends, has been more appeciative than before. Funny how life takes a turn. Another blessing is that I have found out that you really don't need much to survive, epsecially on an unemployment income. I sometimes feel as though I have failed to become the parent, husband, and finanical provider that is expected of me. My wife who is now the main supporter of this household, is trying to be calm, but, deep down inside I sense that she is worried. True, I would like to manifest many opportunities and events in my life, but, untill they do, sitting quietly, praying for those who are in need of healing and love, makes life more fullfilling for me.
Anyways, In response to your question, I know that I will be doing whatever is needed of me at that time, and strive to live my life through a prayer from Caroline Myss's book "Entering the Castle", which goes like this, "To open myself to divine guidance, To surrender myself to become as a channel of grace, healing, and service as God directs my life."
May all of you @ Intent.com continue to be the light that makes a difference in this world.
Beautiful Blessings Always!
Peace and Love – Jerry
As for me, I live in the moment and embrace it. I do, though, make daily intentions, but I leave them to higher consciousness which usually brings me to them, and when the intention becomes a reality, I'm always surprised. I LOVE surprises.
Namaste,
Pam
Dear Olivia I see myself doing my best to double at least all my good deeds. Thank you to make me ponder about this very important action.
Amorifer-alden