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Intention vs. Resolution

Resolution  - 

 The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.

Intention –

  1.  med  a natural healing process, as by first intention , in which the edges of a wound cling together with no tissue between, or by second intention , in which the wound edges adhere with granulation tissue.

2.  the end or object intended, purpose.

I have been thinking a lot  about New Year’s Resolutions and have decided that for the purpose of moving forward, resolution isn’t a very good word to use.  I have chosen to use the word intention instead and find that my heart stays more open when I speak that word.  I am intending in this new year of 2012 to complete any projects that I have left unfinished and I suspect it will take the better part of the year to accomplish this.  With each unfinished item I have allowed cobwebs to grow in my mind and also in the basement and have started to resemble those people I said I would never be, clutterbugs.  Clutter is a dangerous thing.  It creeps and creeps into a life until one day it becomes illness and then it takes a lot of energy to declutter.  That is, if, you can declutter at all.    In 2012 I will purge, sale, organize and bestow any items, beit thoughts or otherwise, that I no longer need, want or use.  Once that intention has occurred I suspect I will have healed a great deal.