When you put yourself in a "good-feeling" place and then contemplate the subject, you'll be inspired towards what your real intention is...for now.

By contrast, when you are in a "bad-feeling" place, the intentions that are inspired to you by default will just lead to more "bad-feeling" manifestations. So the "state of being" you are in as you consider your physical actions/intentions is key.

See When would be the best time to answer my inner call? for more information on this.

I say "for now" in the first sentence because your intentions can often change as you climb the emotional scale regarding the subject of your focus.

It's not that our intentions are actually changing, it's often just that lower down the emotional scale we were out of vibrational range of being able to hear what the true intention was. And so the initial intentions might just be nudging us into a better-feeling direction to enable us to hear more clearly rather than being an end in themselves.