Why Intention matters more than the deed!

It’s been quite a long time, since I have written something this material. In the mean time I have been busy writing two liners. This piece is an expansion of such a two liner.
The things that dawn to me are from people. I was quite intrigued when I started noticing how intentions played much more role than the deed itself.
My work allows me to mostly work on experiments with technologies which could be implemented to solve a particular problem, but most of them would end up as trash(read as “treasure”). I was fortunate to have got more answers for the “Why not?” question.
The worst thing about experiments, which is also good is the challenge it attracts. People often tend to convince that their opinions are convictions which they clearly are not. Now coming back to what it matters.
Not more than a month into my first job, I was so clueless of things working around me. I was a fresher and an Electrical Graduate in software industry with little to no exposure to software development. As an inquisitive fresher I was literally searching for problems, so that I could position myself in the competitive environment. Often I would end up finding problems, but would desperately end up failing to find or implement a solution. I was so unstable back then for I couldn’t find a way to enter the race. This condition took a toll on me that I started talking about all these to my college seniors. When I was with one such a guy, we successfully found a problem and a potential solution to work on. He would take care of the development cycle and use cases and I would code. The experiment was very challenging. We faced many hurdles and somehow always managed to succeed them. During the course of all this, one more two liner dawned on me, as I was enjoying it.
So what went wrong? All through my piece you would have noticed that I kept on repeating
Position myself in the competitive environment
Consciously or unconsciously, my intention has always been to get fame by doing something on my own. I have been guided by an invisible but invincible drive that I would arrive at a solution for a potential problem and present it to my COO so that I would get fame.
Being too concentrated on the outcome my approach to the experiment failed. If at all my intentions were really to solve the problem my approach would have been different and the outcome could have been successful.
One such instance may not conclude that intentions do matter and I don’t want to conclude anything.
Many of you might have thought otherwise by now and I would like to leave the conclusion to yourself.
I would like to quote one more of my two liner (this would be the final one. :)).
Intention matters more than the deed.
I am a novice, bear with my grammar and educate me if at all any of it felt opinionated.
