2023: The Year of Intention

I don’t know if I ever wrote about it on my blog before but typically every year on my birthday I dub it the year of and then whatever my big goal is. I didn’t do it until halfway through my 21st year and I didn’t have one for my 22nd. I was just like I am flowing and that gonna have to be good enough. Realistically I suppose my career year was 21/22.

For the new year however I feel like starting right on the new year. I have a lot of things I hope to accomplish in the year 2023 and so it only felt right.

Intention is really important to me because it feels better to me when it happens the way I intended it to. I like when the outcome is how I planned it. It’s nice when things happen and surprise you too, but I’m into bending the world to my way.

As a person who reads and writes I feel like the biggest way to set intentions is by writing and how I speak about the things I want. Talking about things as if they have already happened and or talking about them like fact. Just making my world what I want it to be by speaking it into existence. It really changes things.

The other is by doing it. I have talked about just doing it. Just doing it really changes the pace in which you do your life. It’s definitely a moment changer when you just do it.

For example Harry Styles will be performing in London. I bought a ticket to do that. Now I have to get there to see it. Now I will be traveling this summer. And so it goes.

I also committed to not having trivial new years resolutions. I’m not really interested in saying I’ll do something I really have no intention of following through on just because it’s a new year. However, I always intend to travel and what better time than to see my favorite artist in a different country.

I intend this year to be more financially responsible, what better way to exercise discipline than having something you need to save money for. Of course you should always be saving money for the rainy days, but that’s besides the point.

I believe that habit is part of being intentional. Doing something over and over. Saying something over and over. Letting your intention be apart of your everyday life. It’s so easy to get caught up in life and what it throws at you. You can forget things so easily, but when it’s habit it’s just subconscious.

Like going to the gym, if you intend to go and get fit and you have the intention of doing that, the best way is to go at least three times a week at a set time and making it a habit. Scheduling things into your day and making them daily or weekly.

I recently started a morning routine before I go to work. I wake up, I get dressed, I make my coffee, I do morning stretches to get me started and relieve morning anxiety, listen to music that gets me alert and awake, and then I go to work. This has made my day so much more bearable then waking up thirty minutes before I have to be at work and walking in like a zombie. It definitely beats being in an okay mood and having changes thrown at me when I’ve only been up for 45 minutes.

Creating habits and being intentional in what you do with yourself brings a sense of calm to me. I know the purpose I have set and intend to get to it. Having a routine is therapeutic to me. Helps me keep track of my brain and everything I have going on.

It is never bad to be intentional about your life, and making your world the world you want to be alive in.

With my thoughts on the internet,

RJC