The Secret to Goal Setting in 2025
The pressures of reinventing yourself each calendar year decoded
It’s that time of year again.
Resolutions, diets, big shifts, starting over…
We view the change in the number at the end of the year (2024 to 2025 in this case) as a massive shift in energy. It is a change from old to new, and an invitation to reinvent pretty much any aspect of your life, or at least the internet tries to sell you this idea.
“To reach your potential you should buy this blender! Purchase this at home workout device for effortless abs! You need this notebook to centralize your thoughts!”
It’s deafening.
It’s so loud that its hard to even formulate what is is that you truly want.
Heres a little secret I’d like to share with you:
The year does not have to change for you to decide you want to make positive changes in your life.
Maybe you have been wanting to lose some weight and have been putting off getting a gym membership. Maybe you would like to start cooking whole foods but have been too intimidated to start.
It doesn’t have to be January 1st, or a Monday for you to begin to work towards your goals.
Another secret: you don’t need a matching gym set to get a good workout in, you don’t need a state-of-the-art kitchen to feed yourself well, and you don’t need a viral journal to organize your thoughts.
Start with what you have.
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All that aside, despite my disagreement with the “New Years equals New Me” trend, I do think that it offers an opportunity to reflect and plan out what habits you’d like to cultivate in your life and what habits you would like to leave behind.
A good way to ensure you’re on the right track, is to create tangible goals that align with the habits you’d like to emulate. Then, sit down and brainstorm what you need to do to make these goals a reality.
For example if a habit I’d like to form was to to scroll on social media less, I could make my goal something that would replace that time, like reading more books. Now that I have my goal, I’d formulate a plan to read a certain amount of pages daily so I could reach a book goal, while practicing the habit of spending less time online!
Another example would be if I wanted to make a habit of eating a high protein breakfast. I could make my goal to meal prep to avoid missing out on the macros. From there I’d make plans strategize what meals I’d make and go to the grocery store to buy ingredients to create it!
Goal setting is fun & planning is exciting. New Years is simply another excuse to get really intimate with what you like and don’t like about your current reality.
Do you believe in New Years Resolutions or do you view them as general goal setting? Do you have any yourself? I’d love to know your thoughts.
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Well Wishes,
Jillian
Make it Urdae!
Jillian is a Certified Holistic Health Coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is a certified Yoga Instructor by the Yoga Alliance.
If you have health and wellness goals and could use guidance, here is the link to a free intro session for her 1:1 coaching, where she supports healthy lifestyle changes.
Nice post, Jillian. If people have positive New Year’s resolutions, good for them. But when you wrote, “The year does not have to change for you to decide you want to make positive changes in your life”… I couldn’t agree more.