To activate the power of intention, we must then make contact with our natural self and stop identifying ourselves with our ego. This process takes place in 4 stages:

First stage: Discipline

To learn a new task and to materialize your wishes requires commitment and training (Ex.: taking on nontoxic habits, eating healthy, etc.)

Second stage: Wisdom

Wisdom combined with discipline reinforces our ability to concentrate.

Third stage: Love

After disciplining our body with wisdom and intellectually studying the task ahead, we must learn to love what we do and to do what we love.

Fourth stage: Surrender

This is the place of intention. Our body and our mind leave the spotlight. It is simply a question of accepting to be carried by an immeasurable and indescribable force: that which transforms acorns into trees, flowers into apples and tiny cells into human beings.

Sources- https://books-that-can-change-your-life.net/the-power-of-intention/