I agree with MindReality. Sometimes it is dangerous to share your intentions with the people you know (and love). I have been writing a personal blog -- sort of a diary -- since 2002.
That is the place where I vent about a lot of things in my life, and where I write about my plans to conquer the world. I never told anybody about it, and I was perfectly happy with the feedback I received from complete strangers who found it randomly on the Internet.
But in 2005 while on a business trip I loaned my laptop to a co-worker so she could check her email. Snooping around I guess, she found the blog on My Favorites or somewhere on my computer. She immediatley forwarded a link to many other people who know me, and before I knew it, co-workers, friends, and family members were the ones leaving comments on my blog.
That turned out to be a bad thing because now people ask me all the time about something that I wrote 2 or 3 years ago. About this or that person, or about a plan that never came to fruition. It makes people who don't understand very skeptical, and in the process it can affect the way you view your own intentions.
That also damaged the integrity of my blog, because now I am very conscious of what I write on there, wondering who might read it and what they might think, so the purity of the blog has dissapeared. It is no longer what I really feel, but more like what I want other people to think I'm feeling.
I'm not sure if that's clear, but my point is, I think it's better to keep your intentions to yourself, or share them online with people who don't really know you. When you succeed like only YOU know you can, then people will automatically be drawn to you in more positive manner.
Just my .02 cents.
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