This video explores two essential skills for navigating life effectively: finding your center and finding your direction.

Finding your center helps you avoid being scattered by your mind and emotional system, allowing you to be present.

Once you are centered, you need a direction for where you want to take that state.

This direction isn't a fixed goal or target, but rather describes how you want to move or what you want to cultivate into your life to support your journey. It is often called an intention.

Intentions can be qualities like generosity, gratitude, presence, patience, curiosity, clarity, peace, or adventure, and are frequently chosen based on challenges you are working with, helping to resolve them.

A suggested practice involves choosing one or two intentions each week and spending 5 to 10 minutes daily bringing these words to your awareness. This might include reflecting on opportunities to embody the intention in the past day or looking ahead for chances to practice it. Through this daily engagement, the intention becomes more integrated into your daily life and eventually becomes a part of who you are.

A weekly reflection is recommended to recommit or choose new intentions.

Choosing intentions is an intuitive process that shouldn't be taken too seriously, as you can choose a different "teacher" next week, and all intentions are interconnected.

It's important to choose intentions that represent the direction you want to move towards, rather than focusing on what you're trying to leave behind. The world often provides opportunities to practice your chosen intention, sometimes by presenting situations that challenge you in that area.

The distinction between intention and expectation is crucial; intention is of the now, always available for your next step, while expectation is future-oriented and can lead to tension. Making an intention a rigid goal can turn it into an expectation, causing internal pressure.

The speaker has collected many suggested words for intentions, based on extensive work with people, to provide inspiration.

Furthermore, a space will be created for people to share their weekly intentions, offering collective support and inspiration in this ongoing practice of self-development.

Cultivating intentions is an ongoing path that, while not a destination, leads to more joy and a feeling of lightness over time.