Intention is everything?

That is my parents use to tell me when I was little.

It was kind of an excuse when something didn’t work just as I expected.

I wanted to put the jam in its place but it fell and crashed? Well, intention is everything. I tried to help but made things worse? Well intention is everything.

Then I ran into Chade Meng Tan’s book Search Inside Yourself and found fascinating how he sets an intention prior to any meeting or social interaction: the intention of making everyone in front of him happy.

Regardless if it is a business meeting, a social gathering or any other interaction.

He claims he has amazing results so I started recently exercising his suggestion (even though I read the book a few years back).

I can’t tell you yet if the unexpectedly positive outcomes are directly correlated or not, but definitely something is different. Good different.