To elaborate, let us consider an example of helping someone. when we try and help out, we hardly pay any attention to what made us help the person? What is our main motivating factor behind our act of helping? Are we setting expectations with ourselves right about the outcome? Are we attempting to alleviate somebody's situation whatever it may be, as simple as lending someone our pen? Or are we doing it to make ourselves feel good? Or are we expecting rewards from the universe in the form of good karma which will be paid back in a good way someday?
If the intention says, "I will uplift this person by my help, and they will be grateful", it may not work exactly as expected. If the intention says, "I will be rewarded someday when I am in desperate need for help", that may not work as well. This eventually leads to frustrations, anger, hatred and many other unwanted negative feelings which at the end do not make us happy.
Intentions are very subtle, we do not even know that they are the driving factors behind our actions. Intentions with which we do every act in our lives determines the general contentment with ourselves, other and everything thing else we interact with.
Setting right intentions, leads to right expectations. Right expectations lead to a happier you.
Let us talk about on setting right intentions next week... till then, thanks for reading and spending your precious time on this blog...
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