Segment Intending-an Excellent Tool to Stay on Track - Lifeforce Natural Healing Alternatives™ LLC

Life is busy, isn’t it? There are interesting distractions everywhere. How can you stay on track at work or in any other part of life, when media, interruptions, co-workers, family, errands, phone calls, and eh emmm Facebook and tablets or smart phones beckon us constantly? So, just how can you stay focused at work to finish that project, or at home to spend quality time with your family and friends?

Use Segment Intending.

Intention, second only to faith, is senior in the Universe. Remember, we have been discussing how what we think and believe creates our life experience. Thought is a powerful part of this mix. Distracting thought is also powerful. Only, that creates chaos and frustration. In addition, it creates things we don’t want, by default. The mastery of segment intending is one of those great, powerful, possibly even passionate, positive ways to think that brings you more of what you want and less of what you don’t in your life experience.

So, what is it and how do you use it to stay on track?

Segment intending is the art of taking a breath and in that moment choosing what you INTEND to be, do, have, or happen next. It is deliberate creation of a brief but powerful “pregnant pause” –whenever you change activities– to choose, set, or review your intention for that next activity. This results in deliberate action in alignment with your intention. You will make better decisions and choices. And it will help you stay on track. And as a Master Intender, you will be seen by others to be in charge of your life and “having it all together.”

Though it may seem awkward at first, as anything new always is, you will find this brief pause and in this moment now choice of intention will set you up to have significantly more mastery or even command of your day. And, with practice, it will not take you a lot of time—just a breath or two between activities. These few breaths of time compared to the difference it will make in your world are worth every bit of effort it may take you to master this useful tool. Some of my clients tell me this is one of the most powerful tools they learned in my Thought Mastery Class series, crediting it with job promotions and happier relationships.

OK, so what does it look like to actually do this?

First, it is important to begin noticing whenever your current activity changes. Then break your day up into, at least, the major important activity changes of your day. These look something like this:

You wake up and get ready for work

You travel to work

You arrive at work and greet others

You review your day’s activities

You start your activities or projects

You are interrupted by phone calls, or co-workers dropping in

You go to a meeting.

You have lunch

You get the gist here.

Even if you intend just when you start work and then again after lunch, you’ll see a big difference in your accomplishments.

Then when you begin to notice these breaks in activity, you deliberately take that “pregnant (with potential) pause” breath and use those brief moments to decide, “What do I want HERE?” And then intend THAT. It is just a little tool, but oh so powerful.

Here is an impossibly HUGE list of possible segment intention examples. It is not required to go to this extreme to make a big positive difference in your day. Just pick out the important segments and start there to intend those two or three things that you want. This lengthy list is not the goal here, it is INTENDED only to provide you with tons of options to choose from plus, hopefully, and better yet, they will spark your own personally important intentions. Use as much or as little of this as you choose.

When going to sleep

I intend:

To go to sleep easily
To sleep soundly and through the night
To rest, heal, and rejuvenate my body
To wake up rested, refreshed, joy filled, and ready for this new day
To bound out of bed excited about _____________

Upon waking

I intend:

To feel good
To remember that the most important thing for me today is to feel good
To work on feeling good, no matter what else is happening around me
To notice what I don’t like in a way that uses it as data and information only to help me know what I do desire & prefer and otherwise ignore it
To look for what I do desire & prefer and for what’s positive, and what I can learn in every, event, thing, and person I encounter.
To recognize I create my own life experience, and utilize any experiences I don’t like for learning how to do it better next time, and otherwise focus only on what I desire & prefer instead
To be efficient and effective in everything I choose to do today
To notice each new segment and do my segment intending throughout this entire day
To make and take time for myself, to treat myself well and first, taking time to ——- (do my affirmations, eat well, exercise, meditate………..)
To schedule my day so I have plenty of time to care for myself well, complete those priorities I choose, and be on or in plenty of time for those scheduled appointments or meetings I have arranged.
To allow others whatever, knowing I create my own life experience, and they cannot impact my experience unless I allow it by deliberate intention or by default

Preparing for the day

I intend:

To feel good and enjoy this time with myself, treating myself well
To be efficient and effective in my process of self-preparation
To prepare myself in such a way that I like how I look and feel and I am ready for anything this day brings my way. (Or for the important _________)

Breakfast

I intend

To utilize this breakfast time to care for myself well
To fix and eat a nutritious healthy meal that tastes wonderful
To feed my body what it wants to eat
To eat in a relaxed and healthy way
To feel good and enjoy myself
To be efficient as to complete this process in time to ____________ (go to work on time, to catch the plane, to _________)

Driving to work or anywhere

I intend

Safety
Smooth, free flowing traffic
To be in the lane that continues to move at the best/optimal pace in any given circumstances
To listen to and heed my Guidance
Arrival at my destination, rested, relaxed, refreshed, and in plenty of time
To feel good and enjoy this trip

If your trip includes companions

I further intend

Good communication
To enjoy the company
To uplift the other/s
To easily move conversations on to topics that allow all of us to feel good, be uplifted, and speak in ways that are positive and supportive
To allow others whatever, while maintaining my own feel good

Arrival at work

I intend

To feel good
To greet others in ways that are uplifting of them
To let my face, countenance, body and posture broadcast the fact that I feel good
To efficiently and effectively get ready to start work

Begin work

I intend

To review my values, priorities, and schedule, list my highest priorities for this day now and after lunch to ensure I stay on track
To work on my highest priorities, and easily return to them if interrupted
To make it to every scheduled meeting in plenty of time, fully prepared
To complete xyz step on my ___________project
To be efficient and effective
To be up lifter in every human transaction
To stick with win win
To recognize each new segment and remember to segment intend
To remain calm, positive, professional in manner no matter what I may be facing
To feel good, to remember to feel good, no matter what
To look for what I want or can learn in all interactions
To ignore and easily release anything I recognize that I don’t want, and use it only as data and information
To care for myself first, eat a healthy lunch when I get hungry, and leave work on time to ensure I have plenty of time for my exercise and planned fun ________, or time with family and friends

Begin project xyz

I intend:

To feel good
To recognize and heed my Guidance
To be efficient and effective
To complete steps abc, xyz etc.
To spend x amount of time now, and schedule when to work on the next piece
To easily keep my concentration and focus
To easily return to my place and train of thought if interrupted
To handle any interruptions quickly and easily and return quickly to this project
To put off all distractions until xx time, (ignore phone calls, close door, etc.)
To be complete by x time, or finish this step by, or stop by x time, knowing I’ll get back to it _____

Telephone rings and you choose to answer it

I intend:

To quickly and easily determine and evaluate the importance of this call and act accordingly, while uplifting the other person.

Upon discovering identity of caller

Excuse yourself for one moment, or do while greeting the other

(I recommend excusing yourself so you are not distracted while talking/listening to the other, as they can tell—example: “Can you hold for just a moment, please?” intend then, “Hi Suzy, what may I do for you?”)

I intend:

Good communication
To be up lifter
To remain in win win, regardless of the others point of view
To remain positive no matter what
To feel good no matter what
To _________________(what you want from them if you know it)
To remain alert to requests and easily say no or at least say I’ll get back to them if I am not 100% sure it is something I want to commit to or fits my priorities or workload etc. (It is easier to say no first and yes later, if appropriate—than it is to say yes, without deliberation, and wished you’d said no, or then try to say no later.)
To honor the caller regardless of whether my response is what they want

If this was an interruption

I intend:

To handle this efficiently, effectively, and return to my project as quickly as possible

Going into a meeting

I intend

To feel good no matter what
To utilize anything that I recognize as a don’t want as data and information
Good communication
To be up lifter, and honor others no matter what I am communicating
To focus on and hear and understand the others in a way that they feel heard and understood
Then I intend to communicate in a way that facilitates being heard and understood
Stay focused on the purpose of the meeting at hand (and facilitate the group has a focus/purpose if it is not immediately evident)
To reserve decision/judgment if necessary
To say no appropriately, or that I’ll get back to them if necessary
To stand up for myself if necessary
To accomplish _____________
To be in harmony
To facilitate win win
To end on time so as to get quickly back to _________
To stay in integrity with myself no matter what

Whenever changing activities

Recognize it is a new segment

Re-intend based on new activity

Lunch and dinner, see breakfast

Leaving work, see driving etc.

May want to include

I intend

To feel good
To do xyz exercise plan
To do abc fun activity
To enjoy my evening
To feel good

Upon arrival home

If home includes others

I intend

To arrive relaxed and interested in _____(significant other)
Good communication
To be up lifter
To (what do you want here???)

If alone

I intend

To feel good
To make a lovely meal for myself
To exercise first
To do xyz fun plan
To read, relax???
To be in bed to be ready for tomorrow by x hour
To what do you want here??? Call a friend; watch TV, video, work on my wants journal????

If you find yourself in a conflict or know one is likely

I intend

To feel good,
Harmony
To recognize my guidance and heed it
To remain in win win
To seek first to hear and understand, and only then to be heard and understood
To be up lifter, regardless of the other person’s position, tactics, emotion, or mood
To achieve _______________ via win win or no deal
To agree to disagree if necessary
To facilitate the conversation to look for a positive win win solution
To ignore blame directed at me, and not use any blame or negatives towards others or in response to others
To keep myself safe, and to leave if necessary
To not participate in negative, instead facilitate shifting to positive or postponement until all concerned can work together in cooler mood.
To intend love, understanding, and compassion for the other regardless of whether I agree with their point of view.
To remain in feel good no matter what, by allowing the other to be, say, and do whatever, knowing they cannot create within my life experience without my allowing it.

When about to do something intended to be fun/enjoyment

I intend

To feel good
To enjoy this fully and immensely
To focus only on this good time and leave all my other projects and problems to another time that is just for them
To revitalize myself
Look for only what I want and ignore don’t want behaviors in others
To facilitate positive feel good and up lift any others accompanying me
Good communication and harmony (if with others)
To utilize this time to pump up my feel good vibration
To ____________ (what do you want here?)

Generally upon discovering a new segment

Intend to

Feel good
To be safe-if appropriate
To remain positive and honoring of the other person—if appropriate
And to focus on, ” What do I want here?!!”

Try this and leave your comments below. I’d especially love to hear what happens when you use this tool.

Now that you are complete reading this– What do you intend next? J