New Year, New Intentions: How to Achieve Your Goals in 2023

As 2022 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on what has passed, acknowledge our personal growth, and set new challenges for the year ahead. With this in mind, we’re using December as our month of intentions—channelling a conscious yet determined mindset as a business for 2023.

With this guide, you’ll not only find clarity in setting realistic and achievable intentions of your own but also find tips for reaching your goals in the future.

What are intentions?

Intentions are the things we want to achieve in our lives in order to feel fulfilled and empowered. They’re so much more than goals; intentions focus on transforming our mindset in the here and now, inviting us to think consciously about our lives and our impact on the planet. This conscious thinking is often invited at the turn of the year, giving us the chance to reset and re-energise for a new beginning.

With 2023 just around the corner, we’ve set some intentions of our own that we’d like to share with you.

1. We intend to continue our pledge to be a sustainable business, focusing on living consciously and applying this mindset to the way we work.

2. We intend to use our jewellery and messaging to empower women across the globe to feel confident and deserving.

3. Finally, we intend to continue listening to feedback from our clients and use it to elevate our brand. This year, we received multiple requests to extend our discontinued Stargazing collection, and we listened, restocking the much-loved Nova Tiny Diamond Necklace and our popular chain rings. In 2023, we want to continue delivering quality jewellery and the personalised service you deserve.

With our intentions set, we’ve assembled our top tips for setting intentions of your own.

Step-by-Step Process

While setting a long-term goal is important, it can be easy to direct all of our focus on the endpoint and lose sight of the more minor challenges along the way. By setting smaller, more attainable intentions in the present (ones that focus on each step), you’ll be able to see your progress and give yourself credit for the small wins along the way. This will keep your motivation sky-high!

Show Some Self-Love

Intentions are often centred around self-improvement, which can inadvertently lead us to be overly critical of ourselves. As you work towards your intentions, be kind to yourself; goals, however big or small, are often difficult to achieve, and the process is all part of our learning and self-growth. So, if you don’t quite meet your intentions or your progress is slower than you’d hoped, remember that all good things take time. Focus on the things you have achieved so far rather than those out of sight.

Be Concise

Have clarity over what your intentions actually are. Make sure they’re clear, actionable goals and not just vague ideas. To do so, create a plan of how you will achieve these intentions so they are something you can control rather than just ‘wishes’.

Stay Positive

Positivity is a huge part of ensuring your intentions are met. The language we use when setting intentions plays a significant role in our perception of the journey ahead. Intentions in a negative voice, such as ‘I won’t go to bed too late’, carry much heavier energy than those written in the positive. Try manifesting positivity by flipping this sentence on its head, instead saying, ‘I will go to bed earlier’.

Check-in Regularly

It’s easy to start the year with lots of ideas and intentions that slowly slip away as we’re thrown back into our busy day-to-day lives. While it’s important not to obsess over our goals, it’s important to check in with them regularly to ensure we’re fulfilling them. Journaling is a great way to monitor your progress and reflect on all you’ve achieved so far whilst still being aware of future steps you need to take.

Use the Support of Others

Setting intentions by yourself can make it difficult to objectively monitor your progress, which is why it’s great to have the support of your peers. Not only is group intention-setting great for accountability, but it also gives external motivation as you receive praise from others and a sense of solidarity as you encourage each other.

Do you have intentions in mind for the new year? We hope this guide will help you to set meaningful and achievable intentions for the beginning of 2023 and beyond. From everyone at FYNE, we wish you a happy and prosperous new year.

*Just a small reminder that we are closed between December 24th and January 2nd for the holidays. We can’t wait to return in the new year, feeling re-energised and ready for the next stage of the Fyne journey.