The phrase "act on intention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the idea of taking action based on a specific intention or goal.
Example: "In order to achieve your dreams, you must act on intention and take the necessary steps towards your goals."
Alternatives: "follow through on intention" or "take action based on intention".
Previous efforts to lose weight, as well as a reluctance to set goals that might not be achieved and an acknowledgement that they needed some encouragements (participant A), were frequently mentioned as barriers to making change, whereas ease of access, with no waiting, and recommendations from friends encouraged people to act on intention and join the NLNY programme.
Habitual actions tend to persist even when self-regulatory resources are depleted, and so habits can shield pursuit of an intended (and habitual) behaviour from derailment which might otherwise occur when the will-power required to act on intention is diminished (Neal et al., 2013).
One study of university students in America revealed that 31.7percentt of the men surveyed said that they would act on "intentions to force a woman into sexual intercourse", yet only 13.6percentt said they had "intentions to rape a woman".
For example, a decision to prepare might be confirmed by the collective behavior of a person's social networks and community [ 48, 82], but it also builds on the internal resolve a person has to create and act on intentions [ 80] – regardless of what other people are doing (or not doing).
Although some people who stated having the intention to take a test did not actually act on this intention, none of those people who did not hold this intention actually took the test.
That is to say, it's not illegal to have an "intention;" it is illegal to act on that intention.
In order to lie, "one must pretend sincerity, but also act on an intention that this sincerity be accepted otherwise one is pretending to lie, and not lying" (Simpson 1992, 629).
The three attributes, however, are all essential for the concept of providence: the divine being or beings must be well intentioned toward humans, must have the necessary wisdom to know what is good for humankind, and must have the power to act on this intention and insight.
While he welcomed the government's decision to keep open the possibility of joining the 12 countries that are using the euro, Mr. FitzGerald said, "The government needs to go further -- it must now act on its intention to remove the economic obstacles" between the British economy and euro membership.
This is likely due to the fact that Senegalese midwives do not have many opportunities to act on their intention to leave, which is related to the rigidity of the labour market for midwives in the country.
The literature has gone astray in understanding weakness of will in this way; weakness of will is actually quite a different phenomenon, in which the agent's better judgment plays no role.[14] For Holton, when ordinary people speak of weakness of will they have in mind a certain kind of failure to act on one's intentions.
