A brand new year: 365 opportunities to start fresh, chart a new course, and live your happiest, healthiest, most vibrantly abundant life.

If you’re ready to make this turn around the sun one for the books, but tired of cliche, easily-forgotten resolutions that lose their shine halfway through the month of January, we hear you. This year, consider setting intentions for your new chapter, instead. 

Traditional New Year’s Resolutions tend to set expectations too high and focus on a single destination, making them far less likely to succeed. Research shows that only around 9% of resolutions actually go the distance). Intentions, on the other hand, allow us to positively shift our mindsets and habits while enjoying the journey to building our best lives, without the added stress of hitting arbitrary and often unattainable targets.        

These eight revitalizing intentions for the new year go beyond the basics to help inspire a renewed sense of passion, purpose, and wellness in the months ahead. Feel free to mix, match, and tailor them in whatever way works best for you. Whether you’re looking to get healthier, expand your circle, or simply have more fun this year, each intention invites you to take small, actionable steps toward greater fulfillment, vitality, and overall well-being. 

Welcome to your best year yet!

What lights you up? 

Take a moment to reflect on the things, people, and activities that bring you joy and leave you feeling energized, impassioned, and renewed, and consider where you can make more space for them in your daily life. If you don’t know the answer immediately, that’s okay. The busyness of life can make it easy to push our personal passions down the list of priorities and lose touch with what truly sparks joy and excitement. Why not bring them back to center stage this year?

Try this: 

Set the intention of spending more time embracing whatever stirs your soul.   

Make a passion list. Whenever you find yourself losing track of time for the love of a project, feeling invigorated, or especially like the version of yourself you most enjoy, grab your journal or pull up the notes app in your phone and jot down the who, what, and where. Then, look through your calendar and carve out some dedicated time to spend with the things on your list, in whatever order you like.  

Does playing the guitar set your soul on fire? Schedule time for practice, and build toward performing at your first open mic. Does learning make you come alive? Sign up for classes to learn that new language you’ve been putting on the backburner, and start looking into local groups to practice chatting with. 

Solid nutrition is foundational to our well-being and integral to living a healthy, balanced life. 

Poor diet can impact every aspect of our lives, from energy levels and mood to breakouts and immunity. While the convenience of ordering in and eating out can certainly be tempting, it can be hard to support optimal nutrient intake and avoid processed ingredients with low nutritional value. Mixing up the monotony of mealtime with one new home-cooked recipe each week can not only add some fun and variety, but help you level up your healthy nutrition game and boost overall wellness and vitality. 

Try this: 

Set the intention of making mealtime a source of both nourishment and self-care. 

Shift away from processed foods and opt for balanced, nutritious recipes full of fresh, colorful produce, lean proteins, and whole grains. Then, get creative and have fun with your food by putting your own spin on old favorites, or practice plating your meals beautifully to share with friends and family. If you’re new to cooking and not sure where to start, here’s an easy, nutritious recipe we love. 

Life is better together. As social creatures, having a strong sense of belonging is key to living a fulfilling life. Community is essential to emotional and mental well-being and physical health,  and strengthening social ties can help lead to greater feelings of support, better sleep, improved mood, and even healthier eating habits.1   

Try this:

Set the intention of building more meaningful new connections, and nurturing existing ones. 

Meet amazing new folks by volunteering for a cause that’s important to you, joining a book club or parent’s group, or getting involved in your nearby community garden or rec league sports, and make a point of reaching out to friends and family more often– even for small check-ins.   

Looking for more ways to fill your cup this year? Whether kindness comes as a genuine compliment to a stranger or a regular volunteer shift with a local charity, the benefits of doing good can have an immeasurably positive ripple effect on the lives of those around us– and our own. In addition to benefiting our communities, practicing kindness is linked to better mental, emotional, and even physical health. 

Try this: 

Set the intention of practicing more acts of kindness in your daily life, no matter how great or small. 

You can start with a few small acts:

• Donate books to your neighborhood’s free library
• Sending a friend an uplifting good-morning text (just because)
• Help a neighbor carry in their groceries.

If you're ready to take it up a notch, partner with a local organization to help spearhead a community coat drive, or consider fostering a rescue pet in need.      

The key to feeling fabulous in the new year? Investing in wellness. 

Prioritizing your wellness is essential to supporting a thriving, healthy life, from energy levels and immunity to glowing skin and better sleep. In addition to eating a healthy diet, practicing mindfulness, making time for fitness, and bridging nutritional gaps by investing in quality supplements can be vital to feeling our best.  

Try this: 

Set the intention of prioritizing your health and well-being with holistic practices.  

Your wellness routine doesn’t have to be complicated to be effective. Make a habit of incorporating more movement into your days, explore mindfulness practices like meditation, and find a convenient supplement regimen that fits seamlessly into your life. A wellness-made-easy starter kit is an excellent place to start!

This year, live it up. FOMO is real, and it can be both a source of stress and a drain on our mental and physical energy. Creating a bucket list of lifetime aspirations can help keep FOMO at bay by drawing our focus back to our dreams, motivating us to accomplish meaningful goals, and fostering a sense of contentment with our choices.2 The beauty of the bucket list: it can grow and change with you, so there’s no pressure to complete every single item. You get to decide what’s most important, and how you want to spend your time.  

Try this: 

Set the intention of stepping outside your comfort zone for a more fulfilling life. 

Can’t swing the luxury Zambian Safari or Master’s degree this year? That’s alright. Focus on what you can do. Maybe trying your hand at something more manageable, like exploring stand-up comedy or seeing your first meteor shower is more your speed. And, who knows what could be possible: The growth that comes with expanding your world and bringing smaller dreams to life just might bring you one step closer to the big ones. 

Give yourself grace. As they say, perfection is the enemy of progress, and striving for it can cause us to set unattainable goals that may negatively impact well-being. Removing the pressure to be flawless and learning to shift our focus to the progress we have made can benefit our personal growth, from helping us to avoid unnecessary stress to fostering greater balance, creativity, and focus. 

Try this:

Set the intention of shifting your mindset from striving for perfection to enjoying the journey.  

Celebrate your wins more often, no matter how small, and try viewing projects as opportunities for accomplishment, growth, and learning.  

Self-love and compassion can go a long way toward improving not only self-acceptance, but stress levels, personal relationships, resilience, physical health, and overall life satisfaction as well. This can include mindfully setting down judgement, offering yourself gratitude and appreciation, and treating yourself as you would a friend.

Try this: 

Set the intention of practicing self-love: Every. Single. Day.

Maybe that means speaking to yourself more kindly, being more conscious of how you fuel your body, or never skipping your luxurious daily skincare routine. However you choose to show yourself a little more love, we hope you find endless ways this year to celebrate all the things that make you irreplaceable.

Which intention resonated with you most?

Wishing you a happy, healthy 2025! Here’s to the new.

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