Do you ever set intentions for the week? I sometimes set them on a Sunday night ahead of the week or a Monday morning and then check in with that intention on a Wednesday. This blog is about that mid-week check-point.
How are you doing this week?
Weekly intentions are a great way to keep focused throughout the week, but it is important to review them during the course of the week to make sure you are still on track. Wednesdays are a perfect time to do this!
My intention for this week was to go with the flow of my emotions, that if I feel sad, I would go with it rather than trying to change it too much. I tried to keep my vibrations high but if I felt like the tears were coming, I let them flow. It’s good to stop suppressing your emotions, to let them out.
How to set intentions:
Identify the desire
Get clear on who you need to be to accomplish the goal
Decide on specific action steps
Shift any limiting beliefs
Reinforce the intentions daily
Mid-Week Checkpoints
Wednesdays are a good time to check in with your body and with your mind before the week runs away with itself. It is also a good time to think about what your intention was for the week. Can you remember your intention that you set on monday? If you didn’t set an intention then, you can set one today, it’s important to remember that you can start fresh every single day. So if you didn’t set an intention, have a think back to Sunday night and what you would have made your intention for the week, how is that going?
Check in with your body and with your mind before the week runs away with itself
If you find it best to write down your intentions or journal what you want out of the week, take a minute to write down anything which you want to change or implement or even say no to. Think about what you have achieved energetically or physically and write them down, and ask yourself ‘What can I now make sure does or doesn’t happen, what energy do I need to shift in myself?’. Sometimes writing down these things instead of just skimming over them, it can be a great way to think clearly over all the noise of everyday life; other times it is good to just sit in contemplation.
Sometimes the head tries to be positive and shush the mind, and it’s okay to do that and put it all to one side to try and be positive. Although that’s great and useful some of the time, it may not be beneficial all of the time. We can end up suppressing what we’re really feeling just to be positive, so it’s really important sometimes to just get it out on paper, or if you find you’re more of a verbal person then talking it out can also really help. So getting down all of those feelings, what you do and don’t want to do with a situation can be a start in action planning how you want to go forward, and you can start to make that happen. If things start to stay in your head too much then they may not happen, so it’s important to combine these beliefs with action.
Believe, Know, Do
Believe - to get something you need to believe in it and its a big part to believe in something, to know that it actually is possible
Know - to know something is to train yourself in it and understand how to go forward with your ideas
Do - actually take the steps to put it into action
People can get stuck at any point of this, some may do the action steps without believing in what they want to do, some have the belief to do something but don’t try understanding how to do it properly and others may get stuck after the belief and know and don’t actually follow through with the action steps.
To finish up, pick out a moment that you were proud of this week, it could be something really small, like you had a shower on a day you felt really down, or you filled in a form that you have been procrastinating. For me it was spending quality time with my family.
Now visualise the rest of the week. What’s coming up for you? How do you want to feel? And you can take control and make change using the tips and action points.