Imagine this scenario. You’re an executive, driving down to a meeting.
1) You are driving in a car you bought, that thunders forth on petrol you bought, and is being driven with the skills of driving you learnt. Even the money to buy the car and petrol came from years of hard work to get to a great salary. Work that was aligned with a strategy, actions, decisions, and generally pushing yourself to be the best you can be.
2) However, you haven’t exactly built the car. You don’t know how to refine petroleum from crude oil. And the money you get as salary probably came from your company’s investor’s funds, or from the goodwill of the economy that thinks your company is worth paying for goods or services. You have to trust that the guys at Porsche or GM knew what they were doing, that the car will take you to you meeting in one peice, that Shell or BP has given you real petrol instead of kerosene, and that your company has enough good people to keep the money coming in.
3) After parking the car, you reach the location of the appointment. As expected a person is there at the exact location, at the exact time to meet you! It’s because your secretaries pre-planned the meeting. Even more interestingly enough, he has a need which your company can provide for, and this is because he pre-planned to talk to companies that provide services or goods that fulfill his need.
Intention Manifestation normally talks not about destiny or God, but about how your actions are very important. Without action, you will not get your intentions off the ground. The intentions will remain like a plane without fuel. Paragraph one looks at that side of the situation. Your actions are a huge part of the success of this meeting. Even the tie you wear, the accent you speak, are actions that form part of the sales pitch that can win over this new client. Hence the intention of winning new business for the company is fulfilled by intention-oriented action.
However, you had a lot of assumptions based on good faith. You believed in a lot of people, many of them subconciously - like the fact that the elevator you used to get from the parking lot to the meeting room would work, and not kill you. You had implicit faith in the engineers of the world to ensure that the elevator is safe and working. Paragraph 2 is highlighting just a glimpse of the amount of faith we have, even without noticing it.
And many of us tend to talk about destiny, even before it happens. Though I’m still grey on my views on destiny, one of its greatest meanings comes through when we try to put meaning to the happenings of our life. For example, many months later you might say “we were destined to get that customer”. Why? Because some unseen benefit occured? Or especially that something that seemed like a problem at first turned into an advantage? Regardless, the concept that things happen pre-planned for a reason - and for the best is something that gives us immense peace and satisfaction. In my opinion, using it in hindsight is far safer than depending on destiny for things to work out. But then just because something isn’t entirely safe doesn’t mean we can’t use it - everything in life has some amount of risk anyways. Just like having faith - it’s risky! 
I suppose the point of this post is - you can look at achieving a goal in any one or more of the three ways.
1) that it depends on your actions
2) that it depends on your faith
3) that it depends on some pre-meditated plan, by a third party (God… or secretaries)
Can one really look at just one aspect? Especially when even most people believe free-will(actions) and destiny are opposites of each other?
In my opinion, just as you may need to look at both - diet AND exercise to have wholeseome health; you may need to address all the angles on achieving anything in life.
If there is something you really want to achieve… ask yourself these 3 questions.
1) Am i doing everything possible to get this goal done?
2) Do i have faith in god to give me strength to do this right, and to get the universe aligned to me?
3) Do I believe my goal is part of God’s plan?
Honestly I can never answer 3 as yes truthfully, because I regard it as arrogant to assume what God is thinking. Which is why I don’t mind using destiny as a concept only in hindsight.
And there is one more question yet unanswered. Is 1 happening because of 2?
