Today, I'm sharing the five steps I follow to set intentions, using my personal experience of establishing creative intentions for the year 2023.

Last night, I baked my first loaf of pumpkin bread since returning from vacation a couple of weeks ago. Baking pumpkin bread requires patience. Unlike making an avocado-based, raw chocolate pie (another favorite dessert), which doesn’t require any baking at all, good old pumpkin bread requires about an hour in the oven. This got me thinking about force versus flow.

Action that creates what we want to manifest in a very linear, obvious way isn’t the only type of inspired action to pay attention to. 

We can’t wait until we’re in a jam to check in with our higher selves. If we want clear guidance for life’s BIG decisions, we need to allow intuition to help us solve the smaller, everyday dilemmas. That’s the easy way to increase intuition. Use it for the small stuff.

Over time, I’ve noticed a pattern. The intentions that I’ve “thought up” don’t manifest nearly as easily or quickly as the ones that I’ve received.

Despite popular opinion, it’s not “lazy” or “unrealistic” to want things to be easy. It’s a way of being that’s natural for us to experience and that indicates that we’re wisely tapping into the resources of the smartest, most capable, creative and powerful version of ourselves.