Hi everyone welcome back to the show you're listening to Style Your Mind and I am your host

Carol Allwell. Thank you for joining me today. Welcome to your first official week of August. So I love love to set my intentions at the top of

each month. It's something that I do that helps me stay focused. It helps me stay

in alignment with whatever it is that I'm wanting to

call into my life whatever I want to bring to fruition for myself and manifest

an intention setting is very different than goal setting fact, I rarely set goals and I've talked

about this before in past episodes. I prefer setting intentions because they allow me to stay in a higher

vibe, right? They allow me to stay less attached to a specific outcome.

Like for me a goal can limit me. It can cause me to think that there's just one way to do something

and if I don't do it the right way I'm a failure right so like

let's say you know you're wanting to hit a certain income goal for yourself and your

business and you're like oh this month I have to make X amount of money and all

month long all you do is think about making that money as opposed to being creative, to feeling

good, to creating things that are meaningful to you.

And it can be a little bit distracting.

And if you don't hit that goal for some reason you wind up feeling kind of down right you feel like you failed in some way or you messed something up

So intentions for me remind me of how I want to feel rather than what I want to

achieve and personally I think it leaves a little bit of room for magic right we

don't always know it's best for us we might think that we want this

specific income goal or we want to, you

know, lose five pounds or manifest this perfect person into our lives, but maybe there's just

something better out there for us, right? I love the mantra this or something better and that's kind of

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