The Power of Daily Intention
This week’s habit is a big one for me, bigger than I expected. I have set intentions before, but if I’m honest, I’ve done it half-heartedly. I thought I understood what it meant, but I was really treating it like another thing on the list, another “should” to check off. It wasn’t until I sat with the question, what does it really mean to set a daily intention? that I realised I had been missing the whole point.
An intention isn’t a goal. It’s not another task to squeeze into an already overflowing to-do list. It’s not about pushing harder or doing more. An intention is energy. It’s the way I choose to show up, the lens I see your day through, the vibration I carry into every conversation, every choice, every moment.
As I look back, I can see how much intention has already shaped this year for me. At the very beginning, I set my year long intention: to be one % better each day, each week. That one choice changed the course of my life. It has pulled me forward through moments where I wanted to stop, grounded me when I was overwhelmed, and reminded me that small, consistent shifts add up to the kind of transformation you can actually feel in your bones.
But now, at Week 34, I can feel this new layer calling me. Setting a daily intention. Not just carrying a big picture WHY, but aligning myself each morning with how I want to live, how I want to feel, and how I want to show up. I believe this one habit could be the pivotal shift I have been looking for, the one that helps me level up and live more consciously, not just in the big areas of my year, but in the tiny, ordinary moments that actually make up my life.
So here’s what it looks like for me. Each morning I carve out space in my ritual. I write down three things I want to accomplish, but alongside that, I set my intention. Not as another item on the list, but as the energy I want to bring. Maybe it’s ease. Maybe it’s clarity. Maybe it’s to move through the day with peace. And the more I do this, the more I see, it’s not about the words, it’s about embodying them. About living them.
When I first began this 12-month journey, 365 days of change felt like a mountain. It seemed almost impossible. But now, looking back over these nine months, I realise it’s been the most revolutionary thing I’ve ever done for myself. I have learned what health really means to me, what my relationships need, and how to truly nurture myself. I have learned that productivity doesn’t have to come with chaos and cortisol, it can be built on peace, structure, and alignment. Just by waking a little earlier, my mornings feel calm instead of rushed, my energy soars instead of crashes, and I move through the day with a sense of presence instead of panic.
I used to live in reaction. Everything around me was fast, furious, and urgent. And when you live like that long enough, the stress carves itself into your body. I have spent much of this year studying just how stress shows up in our systems, how we hold it in our muscles, our digestion, our nervous system, and how it eventually shows up as illness if we ignore it. That awareness alone has been life changing.
Now, I see daily intention as the next level of that same awareness. If my year-long intention has carried me this far, what could a daily one do? What would shift if every single morning, I reminded myself of how I wanted to show up, not just for me, but for everyone around me? What if my days weren’t left to chance, but infused with the energy I actually want to live by?
This is the habit I’m choosing for Week 34. Setting a daily intention. Not as another job, but as the heartbeat of my mornings. I have a feeling this one is going to be powerful. Because if this year has taught me anything, it’s that the smallest habits, the ones that seem too simple, are often the ones that change everything.
An invitation to you!!!
So here’s my challenge to you: tomorrow morning, before the rush of the day kicks in, pause and set one clear intention. Ask yourself, “How do I want to feel as I move through today?” or “What energy do I want to bring into the spaces I enter?” Don’t overthink it. Choose one word, one feeling, one way of being—and carry it with you.
Notice what happens. Notice how you show up differently. Notice how the people around you respond.
Because it’s not about doing more—it’s about living with more awareness, more presence, and more peace. And I truly believe this one small daily habit could shift everything for you, just as it’s beginning to shift everything for me.
