Recently I discovered a wonderful site called Makeunder My Life where I have been learning more about Life Design with intention.

Back story: I went straight into work after high school because thats all I knew what to do.  Right up until my early twenties I worked in offices until it slowly, and then very forcefully, dawned on me that I was not meant to be an office bunny making money for someone else on my time.  I walked out of my last office job into the unknown at 24 because I asked myself, “when do I get to do what I want to do?”

Since then, I have been learning that everything I live, I first create in my mind.  Some of you may have heard this concept from The Secret.  We do indeed create our realities and to do that, you need to intend to experience something.

Thats where Life Design comes in.  What do you want from your life?  How do you intend to live each day?  Make it happen!  But first, you have to learn to feel like you deserve it – but thats another post altogether!

This post is about my five intentions for my life as inspired by Jess LC at Makeunder My Life.

Learn To Let Go
This seems to be my current lesson and it is proving to be such a relief to practice the art of letting go.  Last night in my quite time while waiting to fall asleep, my intuition said to me: Stop trying to control everything, youre getting in The Universe’s way and it cant do its job when youre trying to control everything like an irritating Mother-In-Law.  Its my intention to just let go and trust the process when I start to feel anxious, accepting that whatever happens is a lesson I need to learn and like a warrior I should take it whether its good or bad.

Share My Knowledge
In February I launched this site as a place to put all my accumulated wisdom that was getting such great feedback over at Tumblr over the years but was getting lost in the sea of pictures I posted daily.  It is an amazing feeling to receive feedback from someone who was inspired by something I wrote as a result of life experience.  It feels right, it feels light.

Travel More
Lately I really want to start nesting but Ive not seen as much of the world as I want to yet, so I want to get the travelling out of the way as soon as I can because I more importantly want to make a home.  Japan, New Zealand, Hawaii, Costa Rica and Southern California(with a trip back home to South Africa) are still on my list of places to visit.  I intend to make this happen this year.

Settle Down
Well this is a total opposite to the above point but the older I get, the more I want a home to call my own where I can come home to, rest and stash the things I collect on my travels.  Growing up I never had a home, my dad moved us so often all our stuff was forever in boxes – we even lived in the same house twice!  I have been a nomad my whole life and I intend to find and make a home somewhere this year.

Love Again
Ive been lucky enough to fall in love more than once in my short lifetime and because I know what its like, I want it again.  Ive known so many people and experience so many types of relationships that I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what I want.  A good man who loves, supports, respects and honours me and all that I am.  Learning to love myself has taught me to respect myself and in turn not let other people treat me less than I deserve, Im beginning to feel that I have space to love someone else now too.

What are some of your intentions for your life? How do you intend to design your life?  Let us know in the comments!