The not-so-new Year intention

There is nothing new about NY resolutions, and let's be honest, who ACTUALLY sticks to them anyway? I prefer to set intentions rather than resolutions because an intention is something to strive for, a resolution is something to be lived up to. Language is a powerful thing, it is not just words on a page or screen, it invokes emotions, feelings, actions and behaviours; and therefore influences future outcomes.

I have been sitting in my thoughts over the past 3 weeks (while the work laptop has been closed and LinkedIn logged out), I have been deciding what my intentions will be for 2026.

I want to publish these intentions because I have absolute belief that once you speak your intentions and out them out into the universe, it creates energy that guides actions.

Intentions for The Cotswolds Girl in 2026

I set intentions across the following areas of life: Professional growth, Family growth, Personal growth.

Professional Growth

My intention this year is to continue to learn and develop my craft, start growing our wealth and quit to some degree some of my debt. In practice this will take shape by undertaking the following:

• I will put my ego aside to listen and learn, admitting that I don't know it all and am prepared to take on advice and knowledge.

• I will ensure that we are budgeting properly and have reduced unnecessary outgoings so that we have the ability to what we want, when we want.

• I have set appropriate business targets for company profits

• I will undertake to be in London as required and build my brand.

Family Growth

My intention this year is to embrace my growing family abroad and to grow my family here.

I am very excited that my sister is about to embark on the wonderful world of Motherhood, and I will be the older aunty and have my duties ahead of me.

It is also my intention to leave my emotional thinking behind on the issue and focus instead on the joy of a new beginning.

It is my further intention that I will, at the inclining age of 45/46 and on the back of the overwhelming hurt and anguish of 2 years of fertility journey, undertake a last effort to have a family of our own. This year will likely be the last proper opportunity that we will have to do so due to impending peri-menopause, so however and whatever way it turns out; it is my express intention to be OK with either outcome.

Personal Growth

In 2025 I started a huge personal growth cycle and have embraced a very different mindset and belief system, that actually really resonates with the parts of me that I guess has always been looking for things to make sense. When going to church (denominational) wasn't hitting the mark, when I was feeling like there was something in my subconscious that I was missing or not "getting" but felt like existed at a deeper level of myself.

I have also developed on an emotional level, through all of the past trauma and difficulties, into a balanced human, into someone who does not allow themselves to be defined by the past but who has grown into a better version of themselves because of it.

It is my intention this year that I do not let fear of failure or fear of judgement hold me back from doing things that I want to do. This includes my online "business" which I want to take to the next level. I want to grow my YouTube channel into something I can earn off, I want to grow my Instagram and TikTok accounts for the same reason, and I would ultimately like to turn this blog into a published book.

It is my intention to do more modelling work in the UK, and be cast on further television programs or competitions. I feel like this is definitely in my future.

It is also my intention to explore my spirituality and the various realms. I am curious about spiritualism, energy & vibrational work and Tarot, and I want to explore this further.

Summary of intent

These intentions are part of my continued growth but having laid the foundations and "shed the skin" of the past in 2025, I can now gallop forward in 2026 and start thriving with these intentions in place.

Anyway, a very personal post but one that I wanted to put out there so that the universe can grab it and do it's thing.

Be kind, be in love and be authentic!

Always, with love

TCG xx