2025 New Year’s Resolutions: Let's Make the List Together!

Reviewing the past year and setting goals for the next is a personal tradition of mine that I believe should be a global must-have.

After all, you've probably done an awesome job this year, but next year could be even more incredible! In order to make sure that happens, you have to plan the right away.

Of course, I know it can be tough. Especially for those who are at a standstill or think that they have already achieved everything they want, I have prepared a list of possible goals for 2025. Choose what area of your life you would like to improve and adapt these versatile ideas to your desires! I am sure something will resonate with you.

Mental stability

If you want 2025 to be a year of tranquility and emotional stability for you, I suggest you try doing the following:

• Start practising meditation at least two times a week

• Spend 30-40 minutes alone each day

• Start keeping an emotion diary

• Make a wish map for the next three or five years

• Take part in a charity event

• Sign up for monthly donations to a charity for a certain amount

• Take Lectera's course on fighting fear and initiating life changes

• Deal with past grievances and put them to rest

• Finally take a proper holiday and focus entirely on yourself

• Beat emotional burnout

• Seek psychological help from a professional

• Read five books on psychology or three on clinical psychiatry in a year

• Go through an information detox and unsubscribe from redundant news channels and people's blogs

• Learn to spend no more than an hour a day on social media

• Never raise your voice or cry again

• Write a list of the good things that happened during the day every night

• Move to a more comfortable environment

Physical health

For those who have decided to get serious about their fitness and training, I would absolutely recommend the following:

• Undergo a full check-up at the health centre

• Visit the dentist every six months and have your teeth professionally cleaned

• Lose excess weight

• Get at least seven hours of sleep

• Do a full split by 2025 (why not? It's healthy!)

• Learn to do a cartwheel or any other sporting stunt

• Do eye exercises for 15 minutes daily

• Master 5 breathing exercises techniques

• Drink at least 5 glasses of water a day

• Get a massage treatment

• Switch to a healthy diet

• Hit the gym at least two times a week

• Take up one sport exclusively

• Cut out sweets and fast food from your diet

• Start taking cold showers and gradually get to the lowest temperature possible

• Restore teeth / hair / nails / internal organ health

• Get rid of an old bad habit (e.g. smoking)

• Make a habit of getting a general blood test every six months

Family and relationships

People you care about are an inexhaustible source of motivation, inspiration, and inner strength. Cherish this area of life and do not neglect it! Be sure to try the following next year:

• Make it a tradition to play a board game with loved ones once a week

• Spending a minimum of two hours a day with your children creating, thinking, or reading together

• Prepare an unforgettable birthday gift for each loved one

• Go on a family trip

• Find out at least 10 favourite activities/dishes/films of your family members and write them down in a notebook

• Have a picnic with your partner out in nature

• Learn more about your ancestors and map out your family tree

• Prevent family quarrels and build mutual understanding

• "Cleanse" your environment by making a list of people who are truly important to you and a list of people who make you feel negative emotions

• Master the skill of active listening

• Learn to say "no"

• Arrange a dream trip for your parents

• Meet up with friends at least once a month

• Have a family or romantic dinner every week with different cuisines from around the world

Self-development and professional growth

A brilliant career isn't built overnight, but you'll achieve unprecedented success if you adopt at least a few of these goals for yourself (they're the ones I once started with myself):

• Find your mentor, coach or simply an idol

• Become a mentor to someone else

• Read 25 books in your professional industry in one year

• Read 10 autobiographies of people who inspire you

• Master 5 new skills by 2026

• Learn one new language to at least an Intermediate level

• Complete a minimum of 5 Lectera online educational courses

• Make a habit of planning things to do for the next day every night

• Get promoted

• Finally change jobs

• Close at least one $100,000,000 deal

• Launch your professional blog and start working on your personal brand

• Collaborate with a well-known blogger

• Learn Photoshop, video editing, or a new programming language

• Write 100 useful articles on your professional topic

• Attend 50 business conferences, exhibitions, or other professional events

• Allocate space for a home office in the flat

• Work hard so that you get a bonus every month

• Read industry news once a week and study new market trends

• Master a related profession to become a cross-functional specialist and increase your relevance in the labour market

• Make 20 new useful acquaintances

Finance

Do you want to spend 2025 in luxury, finally become financially independent, and maybe even create a source of passive income? Here are some ideas of what you can try:

• Open a bank account and deposit a certain amount of money at an interest rate

• Start investing and buy at least 5 shares of proven companies

• Study the cryptocurrency market

• Launch your startup and become your own boss

• Monetise your favourite hobby and turn it into a job

• Increase income by 50%

• Increase income by 100%

• Create a new source of passive income

• Find at least two sources of additional income

• Purchase a car/real estate

• Build up a "financial cushion" that would be enough for at least a year of secure and peaceful living

• Set aside a minimum of 5% of your salary each month as a "cushion"

• Learn to save money and plan your budget with a financial literacy course

• Refuse spontaneous and emotional purchases

Leisure and hobby activities

Without regular rest and timely recovery of inner resources, you cannot achieve long-term success in any endeavour. So be sure to choose a few goals for yourself from this list:

• Travel to a country you've dreamed of since you were a child

• Find a new hobby and devote at least two hours a week to it

• Go on a tour of your hometown

• Take a day trip to a neighbouring town and explore the local attractions

• Have a try at an extreme sport

• Go to the theatre or opera every month

• Dine at a Michelin-starred restaurant

• Treat yourself once to an unnecessary but enjoyable purchase you've been putting off for a long time

• Watch 50 films in a year

• Read 25 fiction books

• Learn a useful household skill (cookery, knitting, carpentry, etc.)

• Take an oil painting course

• Get a pet and love it with all your heart

• Attend a music concert or venue that you consider yourself "too old" for

• Do something besides what you need to do, but also what you want to do

2025 is ahead of us and it is in your power to make it truly productive, unforgettable, and happy. So keep going and don't stop at what you have already achieved - together we can achieve new and amazing goals.