Seven years ago, when I started BuDhaGirl, there existed a fringe group of people, mostly neurologists, psychologists, and self-help gurus who understood the clear benefits of setting intentions. These forward thinkers, visionaries, if you will, knew that intentions influence outcomes.

I am happy to report that the “setting of intentions”  has now become a bit more mainstream (certainly BuDhaGirl’s get it), however, we still have a long way to go.

And you know why more people don’t practice setting intentions? Because it is so easy…it’s too simple…people think it just can’t work.

For something to influence our lives we think it must be complicated, it must make us sweat, it must have multiple steps…when most of the time all we need is to simply identify what we want. We somehow don’t believe in the power of our own free will to make things become a reality.

We don’t believe that by simply thinking about something we want or the outcome we want, we are able to actionably influence it to become a reality.

Nothing can be further from the truth.

By daily affirming what we desire, we begin to make things happen towards that end. It is a gentle process… sometimes barely noticeable, like a butterfly landing on your shoulder. Our will makes us tune into others that can help us, it opens our eyes to the subtle clues placed before us by the universe, we become one with our goal, with our intention.

Intentions are not things. Intentions are us. We are what we think.

The success of our All Weather Bangles® is heavily dependent on our morning and evening rituals of setting intentions. These rituals have been embraced by BuDhaGirls all over the world because it works.

Talk to any BuDhaGirl and she’ll tell you about the power of setting intentions and about the brief moment to quiet our inner conversation and focus on what we want.

Then, with the clarity of mind and courage in our hearts, our intentions will become outcomes.