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Review 2024 & Plan 2025

If you haven’t already, get a notebook or even a piece of paper and do this today. Take 20 minutes and list out highlights of 2024, including what inspired you, what you achieved and what you loved. Set a timer for 20 minutes and write as fast as you can. You can also include challenges you overcame. Keep each idea short like a bullet point.

Then set your timer for another 20 minutes and try to write out up to 50 things you want to do, have, or be in 2025 and 2030. Write fast using the list you just made as an inspiring guide. Also use your most exciting ideas and imagination.

With this list of 50 things, decide which you want to achieve in 2025 and which might take longer like 2026 or 2030. Put the year you want to achieve the goal next to the goal itself.

Then gather up all the 2025 goals and decide which 5 are most important to you. With these five, write some greater detail around what the goal will look like once it is achieved.

Also write a list of next steps you will need to take to get closer to that goal.

Now put two dates next to each step so you know when you have to start and complete that step.

Now go work your plan!

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Feed Your Eyes Goodness

Be mindful what you let your eyes see. Many things can’t be unseen. Some visuals return in quiet times or when our eyes are shut at night.

Bathe your eyes in beauty, love and gorgeous things. Look at things that make your heart fly and your soul soar. Do not waste precious moments of your life on anything that is not beautiful to you.

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Take A Day Off

Boxing Day is a good day to take off. Do something different or nothing at all. Don’t do any should’s or secondary interesting things. I wouldn’t just fill time doing nonsense, unless it’s part of what brings you joy or can be done to just to help you actually relax.

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Preparation Saves Money

Planning ahead by 6-12 months means you can get cheaper hotel rooms, flights and car rentals.

If you plan your finances in advance, you’ll save money on unnecessary loan interest, last minute charges and unhelpful fees.

Getting agreements in writing with full details and all questions answered gives you time to make better choices and not get stuck with an inferior product or service. The costs in both time and money can be substantial.

Take time to prepare properly and you’ll win more often. Surviving is ok but excelling is a lot more enjoyable.

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Do Something Different

Plan something different once a month for the 12 months of 2025. Pick a day or days now to do things you would like to do.

This can be free things from going for a walk, visiting a museum or art gallery, attending a church or even booking a night in a hotel in your budget.

See the world differently. Get a new perspective. See what you can learn from the experience.

You will have 12 opportunities to learn from and to look forward to this year. Book the days you want now and you can book the events now too!

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Meet People

Get outside of your usual sphere and meet people. Go to parties and events. Call up clients. See your neighbours.

Have fun and find people you gel with.

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Health And Fitness

Take care of your body and mind. They are the only ones you get. They need to last the whole ride.

Be careful what goes in to both. And be sure to keep them both in tip top shape through helpful exercises.

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Are You Drifting?

It’s time for a self-audit. Be brutally honest with yourself. Do you let a lot of time drift by without any purpose? Watching tv or chatting to people to pass the time can provide entertainment or can be good for you socially.

However, do you spend 80% of your day on unproductive or unplanned things? Do you let things happen so following everyone else’s agenda? What about your plans? Do you have any?

If you have plans, why are you letting others distract you from what you deemed important? Tell them to call back, let their call go to voicemail or answer but be two minutes or less.

Drifting along with no purpose, no plan and no boundaries can be quite easy, but destructive in the long term, as your life plans drift away from you.

Start blocking time in your diary for your plans. Make phone calls under 5 minutes. Meet friends where you can get up and leave after 30 minutes. Focus on what your goals are rather than just drift along with whoever rings your bell.

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