Perhaps your present relationship to Intention is that if you set your Intention as a Commitment, as a Boundary, as a Strategy, as a Purpose. When you do this, you are applying pressure on your entire Zoo of Parts, and on the Universe, to try to get them to produce what you intend. You are trying to twist the Universe's arm into giving you what you want.

Certainly Pressure-Powered Intention may possibly work in your favor in certain circumstances, but in other conditions it can backfire in your face. Perhaps you have had this experience?

For instance, how clear are you about which 'you' is trying to twist the Universe's arms to give 'you' what 'you' want? If the 'you' is your Survival Strategy, your Box, your Gremlin, your Parents, your unfulfilled Childhood needs, or some ideal you picked up from your Religion or your Culture, you may end up creating exactly what you don't want.

Often an outcome is sought by directing your Intention onto your own behavior and performance, trying to force yourself to do better, applying pressure to do it more perfectly, thinking that if you can force yourself to do it perfectly enough, you will create the desired outcome.

An alternative approach is to keep your Energetic Center on your Physical Center (so that you are Being Centered) and then send Intention impulses 'over there' to where you intend to go. Suddenly the next step of what you need to do to get 'over there' to the outcome is directly in front of you. Your Intention is on your vision of what you want to create. Your vision from the future (even if is only 3 seconds in the future) designs your present actions.

If you keep 3% Free Floating Attention - that is, Field Attention, 'soft eyes' not directed at or attached to anything in particular - your Attention can inform you about unexpected and nonlinear evolutions that would be useful in your Intention.

What this means is that just because you are consciously holding a particular Intention NOW, it does not mean you must keep holding that same Intention NOW. Your Conscious Intention can rapidly evolve because it is not a Belief, and it is not based on Assumptions or Projections that have crystallized into rigid Expectations.

Having Conscious Intention does NOT mean being rigid.

Then again, it might mean being resilient, persistent, or unrelenting.

As your Conscious Intention becomes like a fire hose, washing away resistance, blocks, or obstacles in front of you, it becomes more easeful (less frightening) to commit to outlandish outcomes and to produce and inhabit them.