Intention

Intention is an agent's specific purpose in performing an action or series of actions, the end or goal that is aimed at. Outcomes that are unanticipated or unforeseen are known as unintended consequences.

How do you set your intention? If you begin with a good or positive intention, the road shall be opened widely for you which is to have in mind a purpose or plan, to direct the mind, to aim. Whereas, the bad or negative intention, we sometimes stray without meaning or direction. But with it, all the forces of the universe can align to make even the most impossible, possible. 

Intention is the key to the power and efficacy of will and that may be the answer to the question of why we are so feeble in our accomplishment of that which we intend. Intention is most often motivated by desire, so it would seem that our strongest intentions would be guided by our innermost desires, and that the purpose of exploring active imagination is designed to bring out  innermost desires. But intention can also be motivated by knowledge. 

It would seem that at least two ways to reach a conclusion concerning the realities of the 'inmost desire'. One way is by exploration, the way of psychology, and the other way is by the acceptance and study of 'Objective Truth', the Knowledges of which have been interjected into the human experience.