You’re listening to the Transform Your Life from the Inside Out podcast. This is a throwback episode to episode number 187, and that episode was titled The Power of Synchronicity and Intention. You know, in my opinion, and from what I’ve been taught and learned over the years from Don Xavier, he said to me one time that intention is the most pervasive force in the universe. It’s the most abundant source is what he said.

Now this being said, what is intention? I’m going to talk about that in this episode, but it’s like the fabric, it’s like the blanket that covers the entire universe. And the universe responds to whatever our intention is. Everything starts with intention. People don’t think about it this way, but if you look at, for example, even the galaxy we live in, there was a time it didn’t exist.

In this thing that we call time, it didn’t exist, but there was intention that created it. Everything is intention, and to create what we want in life, we have to learn how to manage the power of synchronicity and intention, and especially we need to learn to focus our intention and keep our attention on what it is that we want to create. So if you wanna create more, manifest more, be do or have more in life, enjoy the episode, throwback episode 187 on the power of intention.

Hi, I’m Jim Fortin, and you’re about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast. I’m widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation, and I’ve coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here, you’re going to find no raw, raw motivation and no hype, because this podcast is a combination of brain science, transformational psychology and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you’ve never thought possible.

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Synchronicity and intention. And you’re extraordinarily powerful. Very powerful just by virtue of being born on this planet. You know, it’s so hard for us to grasp and a lot of people really, they can think about it conceptually, but really can’t integrate the thought.

But you’re a part of everything on this planet and your representation of the cosmos. Now, I know that sounds very woo-woo and new agey and everything else, but that is the truth. When you look at your chemical structure and your body and your bones and your skin and thing in your body. I’m going to segue here for a second.

Does people always talk about science and technology? You want to know the greatest technology on the planet? That’s your body. I mean, for crying out loud, do you know how to separate salt? When you eat salt, do you know how to separate it out of your food so your body can process it?

No. But your body knows how to do it because it’s the most advanced what I call technology on the planet. Okay, so anyway, let’s go back here. You’re extremely powerful, but most of us are at the mercy of our 3D reality, meaning the physical world around us.

You know, things that we can see and touch and smell and taste to five physical senses. And most of us live there and candidly, if you’re not creating what you want in life, it’s because you’re living stuck in your 3D reality and your persistence of your 3D reality, which this model is called the Newtonian-Cartesian model of the world.

And that was updated a couple hundred years later by the Einsteinian model and the quantum physics model of the world. You know, according to quantum physics, you’re simply particles and waves, you’re both. Anyway, let’s go back here to synchronicity.

And the definition of synchronicity is the simultaneous occurrence of events, which appear significantly related, but have no discernible casual connection. That means that something happens, but you can’t actually figure out, you know, where’s the point A to the point B? I mean, what’s the connection between A and B, but they’re related somewhere, and they’re related in consciousness.

So what I want to do in this episode, and by the way, back cracking here a second, is I don’t know where I’m going to go with the podcast. I don’t know if I’m going to start having guest or whatever, but candidly, these episodes generally are a lot of work. Because I have to think about, for example, I’m working on two episodes right now, and I worked on one for three hours last night, thinking about how do I take this very huge concept and distill it down so that people can listen to it in 30 minutes and get their takeaway from it.

And I’m thinking, do I really wanna work that hard for something that I’m putting out there, you know, right now that’s, anyway, I don’t know where the podcast is gonna go. But anyway, this episode, a couple of minutes, well today I was like, okay, gotta do the podcast tonight. And I just picked up some notes on my desk because I have a whole stack right here on my desk.

And I just picked up some notes. And the first note I had scribbled, I had intention and synchronicity. And I wanna share some personal stories with you that these are concepts that I know. I don’t just understand analytically and intellectually and just the grammar and all the just words.

I know these stories and I know these concepts and let me share these stories with you. Many years ago, many years ago, it was probably, I’m thinking here, 1991 or so. Now, in college, I graduated with a dual major. I have a degree in political science and a degree in psychology.

And out of college, I said, “I really want to work in politics, but not so much politics as humanitarian politics.” And I do the same thing now, doing the podcast, but it’s not in political clothing. It’s more along the lines of the advancement of humanity. And I really wanted to work and be at the Carter Presidential Center.

So let’s start the synchronicity there and the intention there. So I remember when I lived in Houston, Texas in the early 1990s, and I knew that I was going to move to Atlanta. And I told one of my best friends, I said, I’m moving to Atlanta. Carter Presidential Center.

And I’m going to work, you know, in the executive offices of Jimmy Carter. Now, what a lot of people don’t know is people that are only politically oriented, only talk about politics and that he wasn’t the great American president. Well, I’m going to maybe allude to that in a minute because I know what happened on the inside so to speak through observation.

Anyway, I said, “Chris, I’m going to move to Atlanta and I’m going to work at the Carter Presidential Center.” And Chris said, “Jim, don’t you think a lot of people want to work at the Carter Presidential Center?” And I said, “Yes, I’m sure a lot of people do, but I’m going to.” Now, listen to that voice tone and inflection.

I am going to. Now, let me pull some synchronicity into this. At that time, I had quit my, let’s call it, I mean, I was college educated. I had, along the lines of a corporate job, I quit that job and I was waiting tables at a place called Dave & Buster’s in Houston.

And that factors into the story a little bit because when I was waiting tables at Dave & Buster’s in Houston, I said, you know, when I moved to Atlanta, I’m not gonna have a job. I mean, my folks live there, I’ll have a place to live, but I won’t have a job. So what I did is I actually quit my job at Dave & Buster’s, packed everything I had in my car that literally cost me $1,000.

And I’m surprised that it made it to Atlanta. And when I was younger, I used to work out like a fiend. I mean, I would go to the gym five days a week. And I got there like on a Tuesday or Wednesday.

And the very next day I hopped in the car and I went south to a town North of Atlanta, it’s a suburb called Marietta. And I just intuitively, seriously, intuitively, I just said, okay, turn left here. And I turn left and there was a health club and it was a nice one, a very upscale health club.

And I went in and I joined that day and I worked out that day. When I left the health club, I said, okay, I’ve gotta get a job and right now easy money, easy job is waiting tables. So literally up the block from the health club and it was called the Windy Hill Athletic Club.

I don’t know if it’s still there or not, but it was a really upscale club and a nice part of town. And I went about a block up and there was a place called Leverock’s Seafood House. And I pulled in and I went in after lunch because if you wait at tables or you know, you’ve been a server, you know, they never go in at lunch because they’re busy and they don’t want to talk to you.

So I walked in about two o’clock and I asked for an application and I filled out the application and I said, “Can I talk to the manager please?” Now, mind you, I just said that I had come from Dave & Buster’s in Houston, Texas. So the manager comes out, he looks at my application and he didn’t say anything.

He just kind of peruses, you know, kind of looks over my application. And he said, “I see here that you worked at Dave & Buster’s in Houston.” And he said, “Who hired you?” And I said, “Oh, Chuck Karathammer.” And he said, “Oh, okay.

If Chuck will hire you, I will hire you.” And I said, “What?” And he goes, “Yeah.” He goes Chuck was I was the best man in Chuck’s wedding and if he hires you and hired you I will hire you and look at that synchronicity.

I leave Dave & Buster’s from Houston. I go to Atlanta 800 miles away millions of people in both and work into a rest, walk into a restaurant where the manager was like best buddies with the manager of my prior job 800 miles away. How does that happen? The universe opened doors for me.

Let me share another story with you. Is when I lived in New York City, I first moved there for my first year and I lived on the Upper East Side. It’s all these sections of Manhattan and it’s also very boring. My friends used to call it white bread because it’s just that boring, there’s no flavor.

It’s rich people on the Upper East Side and that’s it, there’s no homeless people, there’s no flavor, there’s no like flavor like you get in the East Village or the West Village or Soho or different parts of Manhattan. It’s just the Upper East Side, boring. But I lived there my first year and I said I want to move to the west side next year when my lease is up I want to live on the upper west side.

And then I said, you know what? I don’t want to just live on the west side I want to live at 72nd and Broadway and the reason why is number one it’s one of the biggest intersections in Manhattan. I mean 72nd and Broadway is a huge intersection in Manhattan but the main reason was is that I went to Central Park every Saturday to what’s called the sheep meadow and it’s where everyone hangs out in the park at least in that part of the park.

And it’s right next to where John Lennon lived. Maybe John Lennon’s ghost was there. I don’t know but that’s for reference. It was at 72nd and Central Park West where you would enter the sheep meadow but I knew if I lived at 72nd, I could just walk right there and I had a dog.

So I knew it’d be an easy walk there and I really wanted to live in that location. So as I said, I spent, like a lot of New Yorkers, I spent every Saturday and Sunday in the park. That’s our backyard when you live in Manhattan.

And one day I was meeting a friend of mine, another friend named Chris. Interesting, I didn’t think about that, tell just now. Another friend named Chris. And we said, “Where are we going to meet?” We’re going to meet at 72nd and Broadway and we’ll walk to the park.

We’ll grab some lunch, walk to the park. And when I was standing at 72nd and Broadway, I said, “Wow, holy cow, it’s loud here. Now, mind you, it’s a busy intersection. It’s loud.”

I give you my word, this is what I said. I said, “You know what? I don’t want to live at 72nd and Broadway. I’m going to live at 73rd and Broadway.

Now let me share a story with you here. Something I don’t say a lot in this podcast and I may go a different direction. I may go to even a more profound and deeper spiritual place and especially after having a stroke last year. I don’t know, we’ll see.

But I can hear, I’m clear audience, I can hear. And I can hear, I’ll just tell you his name is Don Juan. He’s not on the planet anymore, but I can hear him and so one day I was eating lunch and Don Juan says go to a roommate service and I said which is what everyone did or does in New York City because so many people have roommates because it’s so expensive and if you’re young it’s hard to meet to make ends meet and so I heard Don Juan say go to a roommate’s service.

And I said, “I don’t want to go to a roommate’s service.” And he said to me, “I told you to go to a roommate’s service.” I said, “I don’t want to go to a roommate’s service. I’m hungry. I want a sandwich.”

And he said, “Get up now and go.” And I did. So I knew where I was gonna go. I went down to one. And when I went in to say, hey guys, I’m looking to find the roommate.

I don’t know how long I’m gonna be in Manhattan or in my own place. So when I went in, they said, Jim, we don’t have what you’re looking for right now, but we’ll keep you in mind. When I got home, so I took the subway back home, I got home and the blinking light on my answering machine, yes, we had answering machines back then, I wasn’t using a cell phone, was blinking.

And I listened to the message and they said, Jim, five minutes after you walked out, someone walked in and they have seemingly exactly what you’re looking for. Now, my criteria in my mind was, I of a roommate that has some kind of spiritual orientation. So at least there would be some peace and calm in the apartment.

I wanted to live on 73rd Street. I wanted my own bedroom, my own bathroom, which is a big deal in Manhattan. I wanted, and this was a big obstacle I thought, I wanted a roommate that was dog friendly. I had a black lab, I had her for 15 years and she was three years old at that point.

And I ain’t going anywhere without my dog or my dogs now. And so a roommate that liked dogs and I wanted my rent to be the same as it was on the Upper East Side. So they said, hey, this person walked in, give him a call. He looks like, you know, he’s got what you’re looking for where you’re looking for.

I called the guy, I was the first person to call. He goes, I want to interview other people, obviously. And then I had to take my dog over so he could meet my dog, understandably. I mean, people wanna know what’s gonna be in their house and their apartment.

And anyway, at the end of all this, he said, “I picked you.” And funny enough, I said, “How come me?” I followed these people that you’ve met with, “How come me?” And he said, “You know what? You seem like you’ll be a good roommate.”

You can pay your bills and I like your dog. Now, here’s the thing, is I had my own bedroom. I had my own bathroom. There was a roomy poetry book on the credenza and I walked in and he was kind of spiritual or accepting or just kind of of that spiritual orientation.

And so I had my own bedroom, my own bathroom, he’s kind of spiritual. My rent was 78 cents more than what it was in my prior address that I moved away from, my address, 170 West 73rd Street. Yeah, 170 West 73rd Street, New York, New York, 10021.

How does that happen? How do I walk and say this is where I, no, I wanna live on 73rd Street and boom, and happens. That is the power of intention and synchronicity, where things, the synchronicity went out to the roommate service and someone else walked in, unseemingly related to me, not knowing me, and they walk in.

Why? Because the synchronicity is following my power of intention. Two short stories. My good friend Tommy, we waited tables together at a place called Chopstix. I’m back in the early 90s and he was out of law school and he said, “Jim, I want to work at that law firm once I stop waiting tables, pass the bar, all that.”

And he goes, “I wanna work at that firm, but I like that building.” Now, I was already learning all this back then, even before I met my brother-in-law, Don Xavier, the shaman. I was already on air quote, “The path.” I said, “Tommy,” because this is what I did for the it.

I wrote it down. I said, “Write it down and detail it.” Now, Tommy is a very rational, practical, 3D world kind of guy. I mean, he’s very analytical. He’s an attorney.

And he’s very analytical. And he’s like, “Jim, that’s a bunch of mumbo jumbo horse crap.” And I said, “Tommy, just trust me.” So I stopped waiting tables, whatever, before he did.

And I took another corporate job for a bit, a whole different story. And he called me and goes, “You’re not gonna believe this.” And he said, “You remember that building that I told you about and you told me to write it down?” And I said, “Yes.”

He goes, “I got an offer from a law firm in that building, synchronicity and intention.” Many years ago, in 19, I was 2001. I had a really good fraternity brother in college, one of my fraternity brothers I connected with. We were like spiritual brothers.

After college, we backpacked across Mexico, which is where he moved to. He taught English in Mexico City. We backpacked all across Mexico in the mid-90s. In 2001, I had lost touch with him.

We were very connected in college and after college. And in 19, I’m sorry, 2001, I’m thinking of years here because it’s kind of important, at least to me on my storyline. And I said, “I wonder what Chris is doing.” One day, I hadn’t seen Chris in about five years.

And I said, “I wonder what Chris is doing.” And I said, “I am going to reconnect with Chris.” Is what, geez, I just recognized another Chris. Oh my gosh, I just recognized Chris is in a row.

Okay, seriously, I just got that after all these years. Chris again. So Chris Watts, Chris Adams, and Chris Hett. And wow, mind blowing.

And in this episode together also, synchronicity. So I said, I wonder what Chris is doing. And I’m gonna find Chris. And that was it. The very next day, I got an email from a friend of mine who owned a company in Italy in Milan, Italy.

I used to go to Milan, Italy to speak at his company. And he said, “Hey, Jim, this email came today,” or this email came yesterday, which was a day that I was looking for Chris. This email came for you, and the email basically was Chris looking for me, and he found me online with my name at that company, and he emailed the company in Italy, and they know me, and they forwarded the email to me.

The point is, is when I was looking for him, and I set my intention to find him and reconnect, that very same day in his mind, he was writing an email connecting with me. How does all of this happen? And it doesn’t just happen to me. It happens to all of us because we’re all in this cosmic soup called consciousness and your thoughts are consciousness and what you think literally what you hold in your emotional intention meaning you can feel it and what you hold there is what the universe starts organizing around and it organizes around it and it creates it for you.

Now, I know some of the science-minded people, et cetera, will say, “Well, Jim, that’s a bunch of crap.” Science doesn’t even recognize how broken it is because the reality is there is a physics experiment called the Double Slit Experiment. And in that experiment, what physicists recognized is that the outcome of the experiment was contingent upon the expectations of the people conducting the experiment, which means the experiment, the research was affected by the thoughts of the people conducting the research.

So when science has this scientific method, that is 3D static, it’s brick and mortar, it’s hard, it’s concrete, it’s firm. But yet in truth, science and their scientific method is working hundreds of years behind quantum physics, and even quantum physics proves that through the Double Slit Experiment. Believe, don’t believe, entirely up to you.

But the question is, what do you have to lose by exploring this? So the question that I have for you, and then I’m gonna dig a little deeper, is what do you want? The truth is this, doing this for a lot of years is most people can’t tell me what they want.

They can tell me what they do want, but they can’t tell me, I’m sorry, they can tell me what they don’t want, but they can’t tell me what they do want. And if you don’t know what you want, the universe gives you more of that chaos of not knowing and that uncertainty of not knowing what you want. So I’m gonna go one step further here and we will wrap up this episode.

Before I do, if you would please, I’m gonna ask again, if you would please a little reciprocity. I put a lot of work into these episodes. A little ayni, meaning reciprocity back, please share these episodes with your friends and family and people you think will find value. If you find value, other people find value.

There are millions of downloads of my podcast. That means there is value. So the request that I’m making is some reciprocity back from you. You find value, then share to create more value for me so that I can reach more people.

Okay, so I ask you what you wanted, but I’m going to segue here. Stop wanting anything. I work from a phrase. It’s a very powerful phrase. To want nothing is to have everything.

When you want something, look at the consciousness in that. When you want something, you’re telling the universe, “I don’t have it.” That’s what you’re telegraphing unconsciously and energetically to the universe. And when the universe says, “Okay, we’re reading that, you know, there’s electromagnetic,” and you’re saying, “You don’t have it. Therefore, the universe is going to give you not any more of it.”

Why? Because you don’t have it. So the mistake, the error, the shooting ourselves on the foot that most of us make is wanting, wanting, wanting, wanting. And especially if you ever noticed that people that have the least amount of money need the money the most and they want it the most and yet they have the least, why?

Because when you want something, you repel it. Think about that. When you want something, when you need something, you repel it. That’s why my brother-in-law taught me a phrase I love, and it might take you some time to get your mind around this, but that phrase is, “A spiritual person needs nothing from no one.”

Ponder that. Why? Because a spiritual person knows that divine mind, that source, the universe is the source of their abundance and their flow and their needs, not other people. It simply comes through other people as a conduit from the universe because we’re all conduits for consciousness.

So here is the final takeaway this week is what do you intend for your life. Think about that. What do you intend for your life? I intended to work at the Carter Presidential Center. I intended to perhaps work at Coca-Cola.

Look what showed up. I intended to live on the Upper West Side on 73rd Street. My address is 170 West 73rd Street. I intended it. Don Xavier, and again, he’s not the Don Xavier on YouTube.

His name is Don Xavier. I call him Don, people that work with him out of respect. Don Xavier. He said, about 10-15 years ago, he’s like, “Please get it.” And he goes, “What I mean by that is most of humanity still works in what they think is the third dimension.”

But in terms of physics, we are literally working in the fifth dimension. The third dimension is all labor and roll up your sleeves and you have to make something happen. And the fifth dimension, it’s simply holding your intention firmly and emotionally on the outcomes that you know you’re going to create.

And that’s what people say. Basically, that’s what I call trusting the universe. So what do you intend for your life. And now I already know you’ve had examples of this showing up in your life.

I know you have. You’ve had these synchronicities. So if they’ve happened before, why can’t they happen again? Saint-Germain once said, well, I don’t know how many times he said it.

Could have said it every day. Could I had a tattoo? I don’t know. But Saint-Germain said when humans understand how the universe works, they will cease to believe in miracles. Thanks for listening, and I’ll catch you on the next episode.

Bye-bye.