When I set intentions, I meditate on them.
I usually only set intentions for big things in my life–like a search for new home or a new job, or some improvement in my character, or to set a new direction.
Intentions are not expectations of what should happen. They are directional roadmaps without the details.
What I expect may happen, but never in the way I thought it would. Or instead, something very different from what I expect happens. Either way, I am amazed.
Life does not live in the cage of my expectations.
Life being life will surely craft its own creation of my intention.
When I get anxious or worried about all the details and unknowns out of my control, I often repeat my intention to myself like a mantra. It helps steady me and lessen my angst.
Life over and over again creates some involution of my intention. And still as often as this has happened, I am almost always amazed like I was the first time.
The Every Day Yogi 