This week, we’re bringing intention into investing. Whether or not you realize it, the money choices you make can have a profound impact on your life as well as on the world around you. To be intentional about investing, we want to think about two things - why we’re investing and what we’re investing in.

This week, we're delving deeper into how we can bring intention into our everyday lives and how we approach saving.

Gideon here, bringing things back to the end of 2021 for a minute. Here's what happened and here's what we have looking forward into 2022.

So now that it’s 2022, I’m trying out something new. Rather than make a new year’s resolution, I decided to focus on one word to keep coming back to throughout the year. I was deciding between several different words. Savor, dream, patience, and build were all up there, but I’ve settled on the word intention.

If you have to buy, buy sustainable, but let’s not let it distract us from the bigger picture. Giving to organizations and investing in companies that are creating change will make way more of an impact than choosing to buy a sustainably made product.

We’ve been practicing giving intentionally over the past few years and wanted to share some things that have worked for us and that you may find helpful.

We’re prepping for end of year things and thought it might be helpful to share some financial planning items you may want to think about as well.

Would you consider yourself to be financially healthy? Financial wellness is a consistent practice, much like other areas of wellness. You can’t just do it once and be financially well, just like you can’t just workout once and then be fit forever (though I do wish it were that easy!). If we regularly accomplish these small steps, they’ll add up to big changes in the long run.

Here are the 7 steps to help you achieve financial wellness.

CDFIs can be a great way to incorporate environmental, social, and governance factors into your investing. They also offer an option for more locally focused impact.

Where you spend your money directly translates to whom or which businesses you’re supporting. What feels good to me is supporting companies and causes I care about.