Map It Out.

I was coaching a player yesterday who really knew what he wanted, and before each swing he gave himself a great intention in fact he performed his intention several times in slow motion. After I watched for several swings, I complimented him on creating such great intention and then asked him where he currently was in his golf swing. His answer, "I don't know." His intention was to get his swing on a plane with the target but had no idea what plane his club was on durring his current swing. I hope I didn't beat that point to death, but let's go on.
If I had a road map, I would need two things out of that map, a starting place and a ending destination. Having one without the other the map is useless. This player had a swing map with a destination but no starting place. Once we were able to become aware and able to observe the plane of his club, well then the way of getting to his destination or the intention became much clearer. To continue with the analogy, we came upon a few detours but we never left the road and he was able to experience the trip from start to finish. If you have a good map for your swing, then your practice will be in service of learning, and the outcome will just be another part of the journey.