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You Can’t Get What You Want ‘Til You Know What You Want

by Ruth Ann Harnisch on 01/27/10 at 1:23 am

Day 26

The Director of the Sundance Film Festival , John Cooper , told a true story as he introduced the documentary “Cane Toads: The Conquest.” 

Every year, the Sundance Institute  conducts filmed interviews with over a dozen directors whose films are featured in that year’s festival. In 2000, Mark Lewis  was one of the chosen. His documentary that year was The Natural History of the Chicken.  At the end of these interviews, the directors are usually asked, “What do you think you’ll be doing in ten years?”  Mark replied, “I’d like to do something on the cane toads of Australia.” 

It’s exactly ten years later, and Mark’s 3-D documentary on cane toads is here at Sundance.

Isn’t that a wonderful example of intention in action?  Name it and claim it? What you can conceive and believe you can achieve? What you think about you bring about? (Add your own cliche here) 

Intention is a powerful thing.  What intentions are setting up root systems and taking hold right now?  What will blossom ten years from now?