Theme 68: Intention

tu intención es tu fuego.

El plan es flexible, la intención no.

Ser flexibles en la vida es importante.

Tomar acciones con intensión.

En que momento de tu vida te haz sentido feliz.

Tener coraje, me hace feliz

Cómo me quiero sentir?

Que significa ser felíz? Es muy personal.

"I didn't pursue conflict resolution as a career per se, I was trying to figure out and work through my own pain and I found a tool to help me do that"

You can only really ask so much of yourself in one day

Good intentions can only really take you so far — Sarah Burley

Choose a life that reflects your natural talents, and your personality, and what you honestly need in your life

Unless we really love every element of a project we try not to let it go out

When everything changes at once I think it is really really hard to remember who you are

When everything changes at once I think it is really really hard to remember who you are.

Dialogue is key to understanding art and understanding the world.

Mi verdad de hoy es que aunque aún no me salen, algún día voy a hacer un giro libre.

Equivocarnos es una forma de verdad.

En la intención está la verdad de lo que hacemos.

É importante que nós entendamos o papel fundamental de comunicar aquilo que estamos fazendo.

Importante ter este senso crítico desperto para o setor privado, que se diz muito nobre, muito sustentável.

Olho nas oportunidades de diálogos, de criação no mercado, para nós mesmos como criativos.

Cobrar, fiscalizar e exigir eficiência.

Se a intenção do empreendedor/empresário é de se comunicar com a sua comunidade, tenho certeza de que o desenvolvimento sustentável virá com uma facilidade muito maior.

Que essa economia que se dá, que ela seja circular, como a natureza é.

Procurar a natureza primeiro.

Ter coerência, ter convergência de assuntos. Para sermos sustentáveis, pressupõe-se a multidisciplinaridade, a transdisciplinaridade, a interdisciplinaridade.

Existe aí um questionamento sobre gerar novas necessidades. Tem que existir uma intenção de não geração de novas necessidades.

A intenção do empresário/designer que cria esse lugar, ela tem que ser muito nobre.

When do you need more I, and when do we need more WE. And allowing both to exist, but not necessary always at the same time.

If everybody has an accent, that makes us the same; but the adjective before the accent make us different... we choose the lenses of which we want to see – the adjective or the noun.

Intención es ... darle curso propio a una acción.

Welcome the wisdom of your experience.

When we’re meditating, we’re entering that state of relaxed awareness where we’re accessing deeper states of consciousness, and this is where healing and recovering from our lifetime of stress really does happen.

When we approach intentionality with this depth, it has the opportunity to be a fierce practice of awareness, alignment and accountability that can create meaningful transformation in our lives.

It’s not just about external validation but internal alignment.

Intention is the point in your life where you find something that is worth living for.

So often we want to look for the answer outside of ourselves. We hope that we can buy something or someone will tell us something that is going to be the magic words that we need to hear in order to be self-satisfied. But all of that is going to come from within ourselves and it all starts with the intention to be ourselves.

What I didn't realize is that every human being is dealing with so much emotional distress at all times. Every single one of us is carrying a story that is layered and has wounds that are often gaping open. And yoga, as a practice, allows us to be able to accept those wounds, to be able to see and love the trauma, to be able to sit in a space of compassion within the self so that we can then reflect that compassion to others.

I truly believe that if we had more conflict in the world, we would have less violence.

I don't sit on the fence...if I'm trying to sit on the fence I'm not standing for anything. It's always better to say this is who I am. This is what I stand for. This is the message I want to get out. In political roles, people appreciate the courage.'

What I have tried to do with the role is to make it more influential...a platform where it wasn't before...where people are listening and people care

Typography can be very expressive but also it should work with the photography and compete against it.

The act of turning a page is revealing something unknown. And if you can play with the reader's anticipation and feed into it, then you're making it an interactive experience that's also memorable.

I realized what I see today is not solely my own. It's a culmination of everyone I've shown my work to for criticism.

It occurred to me that learning to see critically, the way my colleagues did, was teaching me the value of perspective. Everyone had something different to offer.

The act of turning the page is revealing something unknown. And if you can play with the reader’s anticipation and feed into it, then you’re making it an interactive experience that’s also memorable.

We always look for stories that are memorable and surprising, and something that you’ve never heard before.

It's seeing the things that we used to avoid and developing the muscle to be able to look at truth and say this is where I am right now. And will you come in?

Our job is to be relentless advocates for love and for delight...because it matters.

When you gather and you exclude with purpose, you're not making it personal. And when we start creating a culture where we all gather on purpose and we develop a habit where we're cleaner and clearer about what we want and don't want, now, not forever. Every gathering is temporary.

Start with your need and communicate it to other people, and then exclude people in your life who are not going to help you with that need in that specific moment.

The discerning gatherer understands the difference between routine and ritual. Rituals are powerful when the form continues to match the underlying need or purpose of the gathering.

We tend to conflate category with purpose. For example, when I say I am having a birthday party, most of us have a specific archetype of what that means—candles, a cake, etc. And we follow scripts in those categories. . . . The most powerful gatherings begin with purpose and don't begin with form.

The transformative unit of gathering was that every gathering carried some amount of risk. Risk can be psychological, emotional, or physical.

Part of the reason why marriage therapy or conflict resolution is so powerful is because it gives a common language and a common structure for a temporary moment of time to destigmatize attitudes, language, and behavior that we assume to be scary.

Part of the reason we're scared of conflict is because it's dangerous. And we have lost our collective rituals to deal with it. . . . Therefore, it goes into unhealthy heat.

Conflict is about power.

In our multicultural world, we've lost the capacity for civic discourse in part because we don't have a common language; and in part because we're operating in a different power structure.

A part of the art of gatherings is to get people off their scripts and do things that are unexpected.

Fear comes from both not knowing but also offending. When the fear comes from not offending, if you're really listening, the fear is coming from love. And that's a different source from fear that comes from hate.

CreativeMornings, to me, embodied transformative gatherings.

You know when you see work that makes you cry, you're doing the right work.

"When you take a step and commit, providence moves with you."

What would it look like to think proactively one step ahead? Taking all of the dreams and visions that you have in your head of the future in a blueprint and actually laying them out, and getting a game plan?

Does the vision of the organization you work for match your vision for who you are? Does it allow you to get where you want to go?

Leaders define culture, so if you want to define the culture, you want to be more intentional.

Vision dictates what happens.

Intention is to say, ‘I have a dream, and now I’m going to do something about it.’”

What's most important to me?

“When you first start out as a creative, you think, ‘I have to be original. Everything has to be totally original.’ That’s a bogus idea to start with. The idea is – everything evolves from something else. I like to go to conferences. I like to hear other artists that are doing things that I admired because I could learn from them. I don’t want people to say, “Oh, you’re wonderful” because there is no benefit in that to me. But if I hear people talking about what they’re doing and talking about their own ideas, then that is very stimulating to me. The idea that something is totally original has always been a myth. The more you work – it’s stimulation around you; it’s what other artists do; it’s ideas that are floating in the air that just seem to land here and there. That’s what you’re really looking for and that’s what drives you forward.”

Es interesante ver como las interpretaciones, nos hacen creer seguros de que la intención tuya era determinada, y a partir de eso uno muchas veces lincha o premia al prójimo.

El humor es una manera de gritar con tinta.

Mi intención siempre ha sido poder expresar a través de la caricatura lo que a mí me interesa, lo que a mí me molesta. Es una manera de expresar civilizadamente tus desacuerdos.

It should really be the intention that we want to live with. The affirmations and the core values that we say, that we value. Because it will help us show up for the people who matter in the way that they deserve to.

We can either bend our morals to fit our actions, or our actions can be informed by what we say we value.

Everyday you're supposed to wake up, and go through sense organ cleansing rituals. [...] You clean your eyes, and to me that says "I'm going to see things clearly today". You clean your ears, "I'm going to hear things correctly today". It's all about having a healthy relationship with reality

To design for seniors, we have to be looking in ourselves more. Design to that emotional truth. Design to that timeless you inside of you. You are not your meat suit. You are the vibrant, alive, breathing, loving, engaging, whole, thoughtful, hilarious, joyful you.

Don't design for some mystical, cute, little old neighbor lady because that's the wrong frame. You're designing for a jazz musician, for a college professor, an airline pilot, for a soccer coach, a navy commander. Because to design, to delight, you need to design for emotional reality, which is the truth of who they are.

Designing for seniors, in a way, is designing for you. Because here's the dirty little secret: you are all getting old.

Designing for seniors is really about designing from your own, deep emotional truth.

Life is funny. It throws things at us and we have to adjust.

The next step is to take the next small step.

Who will you be as a person when your intention is realized?

You have to be sure whatever you're setting for an intention works with everything else in your life.

Intention is the creative power that creates our reality.