Intent
Where do you want to go?
Why are you here? What’s your underlying intent or goal in your life? What is it you hope to accomplish by reading this and hearing what I have to say?
Stop for a minute and answer these questions for me. Try not to simply give answers, really take a moment and unpack your reasoning and dig down deep. For instance, if you are here because you wish to learn, go further and ask “why” do you wish to learn and so on until you reach a conclusion and can break your answer down no further.
Try it now:
If you’ve considered my inquiry, I thank you. My aim was not to interrogate you or cajole personal information, but to put you into the mindset of a director.
Capturing Intent
Unearthing and understanding your personal creative intention, your very reason for creating anything at all, is an important first step towards the development of your work. This often manifests outwardly in the form of “Project Goals”, but is something that really must remain within you as a motive, a burning desire, or an intent.
Stale and lifeless bullet points outlining your goals are not enough. You must feel it. Mediate on it. Experience it. Only then can you capture the rich emotion and superlative scope of raw intent such that it remains with you and flows into all you do.
From here on, before you create anything, ask yourself:
“What is it that you are ultimately trying to achieve? What is your personal creative goal or intent? Why are you creating?“
Find the answer, then live it.
-Kaz
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