The Manifestation of Intention: How to Properly Care for and Feed Your Ideas

I’ve been thinking “ideas and intentions” over the past two days. I once read a quote that I’ve enjoyed requoting over the years. I don’t know who gave us the quote (might have been some wise wag like Socrates, Aristotle or Plato) but here it is: “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.” In this post, I’d like us to explore how to manifest our ideas and intentions. (The words idea and intentions are interchanged to illustrate the proper care and feeding of both). 

Conception

Ideas are seeds of potential and promise. Careful nurturing of ideas leads to breakthroughs and success. Poor nurturing results in a failure of not knowing what might have been. I grew up on a farm in the Western region of Kenya. We had lots of chicken and one of my favorite tasks was collecting eggs after they had been laid. Eggs for me have always symbolized ideas - you drop them and they are gone. It’s very hard to salvage a dropped egg. I’ve seen some people scoop it up and still use it but by that time it’s already a mess that not worth saving.

A lot of things had to happen before I could have the luxury of going out there to collect the eggs. There had to be a process of mating between a hen and a rooster. Ideas and intentions are conceived as we allow our future desires to mate with our present needs. Necessity is the mother of invention. Our deficiency today inspires us to explore avenues through which we can attract abundance tomorrow. By harnessing the power of our minds, we are able to conceive new ideas that could potentially alter our experiences. The mating of purpose and possibilities is the birth of pure potential.  

Realization

Well after the eggs had been laid, I would go around and collect them into a nice padded bucket. Some of the eggs would go to the market right away and others would be carefully selected and put aside so that the hen can brood on them at the opportune moment. There are some eggs that are usually ready to go to the market soon after they are generated. These eggs don’t last long in the market. After a short while they get cooked and eaten. But there are those eggs which are brooded on (sat on) by the mother hen. These eggs usually hatch into beautiful chicks which become the hope of the future of poultry population.

In the process of brooding on the eggs, the mother hen is usually very protective. I always knew not to get close to a brooding hen because her pgysiology changes completely. Anything that gets close to the “nest” will be pecked or scratched. Ideas and intentions need to be protected too. As I quoted above, “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.” Who are you sharing your ideas and intentions with? Are they productivity minded people? Do they have your best interests at heart?

Ideas and Intentions

Let’s explore the idea of your intentions. If our intention becomes reality (Wayne Dyer) then we need to embrace good intentions. How?  Are your ideas geared towards engaging, participating, interacting and creating a positive flow in society? (more about epic living and flow idealism at Epic Flow). What value will they contribute towards a better life? Good questions to ask ourselves in the conception stage.

Now, let’s look at the intention of your ideas. Are you sending them to the market too early or brooding on them? Do you want to add value or to multiply value? Which one is more preferable to you: making profits or reaching pure potential? Learn to nurture your ideas and your ”brooded on” idea will become the seed of pure potential.