Are you ready to achieve your goals this year? In this guide, you’ll discover five of the best ways to prepare for the new year. 🎊 From decluttering, taking time out to self-reflect, to making a vision board and elevating your vibe + more!
It’s time to make your dreams come true!
this blog post will support you to break down your dreams into an aligned action plan and achievable goals.
If you’ve been wondering how to prepare for the new year, you’re going to want to read this.
The Best Ways to Prepare for the New Year: Achieve Your Goals in 2025
1. Declutter to prepare for the new year
What an ideal time to complete a new year reset by decluttering to prepare for the new year.
Let go of the old. Clean your home. Declutter your laptop, digital space and phone storage.
Simplify your life so that you can step into the new year with ease, clarity and flow.
Additionally, what habits and routines are no longer positively benefiting your goals? Furthermore, what things do you not believe are possible for you are you ready to transform into, “This is possible for me.”?
Overall, this step to prepare for the new year is about decluttering and letting go of the old so that you can make positive changes and make space to step into and embrace the new in your life.
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2. Make some time for self-reflection
Before the year ends, carve out some time for self-reflection.
What do you want out of your life? What does living a more happy and fulfilling life your way each day feel and look like this year?
If you could be living your dream life this year, what does it feel and look like? ( If you’re not already on the path of taking courageous action towards your dream life, I encourage you to start now.)
How can you go ALL IN this year?
Self-Reflection Journaling Prompts to Prepare for the New Year:
- What challenged me in 2024?
- What lessons did I learn?
- Look at the data and feedback of what happened in your life this year to analyse what needs to improve, what needs to change and what went well in each area of your life.
- What am I most proud of?
- What am I grateful for that happened this year?
- What do I want to do differently next year? How do I want to live differently next year?
Celebrate your success and how far you’ve come. Acknowledge all that you’ve already done and what you’ve achieved.
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3. Dream BIG! Commit to your vision for the new year
Now it’s time to dream BIG. Allow yourself to dream BIGGER than you ever have before! Let go of the fears, choose courage and embrace positive transformation.
This step to prepare for the new year is about dreaming big and setting your greatest vision for the new year.
Enjoy it!
Put on happy music, light a candle, pour yourself your favourite cup of coffee or matcha and prepare to create your dream life. You can start by writing down in your journal: what do you want to have, feel and experience in your reality this year? Keep it simple by focusing on what is radically meaningful to you. What have you always wanted to do?
Today, take action to make your dreams come true. Decide. Don’t just wish, but truly decide and commit that this is what you’ll have, take action towards and live in alignment with this year.
Trust yourself!
Lastly, for this step to prepare for the new year: Create your vision board to match what you want to experience, have, feel and become in your life this year.
4. Set your focus points, goals and create an aligned action plan
Now that you are clear on what you want to have, feel and experience this year, it’s time to set your goals, define & choose what to focus on and map out an aligned action plan.
When I shifted my thinking and perspective to, ‘I’m in it for the long haul/ seeing the long term vision’, this majorly shifted my success with making my dreams a reality.
If you haven’t already, it’s a great idea to take some time out to design a long-term/ overall life vision to help you have more clarity on where you’re headed in life. Write it in your journal or digitally if you’re more of a need to see it on the screen type of gal. This strategy will support you as you finish the following steps.
1. Define and choose your focus points
Journal Questions for defining and choosing what to focus on this year:
- Which priorities do I want & need to focus on this year?
- Which focuses are in alignment with what I want MOST?
- What actions will get me to where I want to be?/ What do I need to do to get to where I want to be by the end of the year, and that’s in alignment with my overall life vision?
When I was in a period of making big positive changes in my life, I needed this quote. I hope this quote supports you if you need to hear it too. Be present. 🙏🏼
2. Set your goals
Set goals that are in alignment with your dream life for this year and beyond (your expansive, long-term vision.)
Additionally, make sure to set a time frame for your (specific) goals. Of course, there are some things that are out of your control when time is at play, however, for the goals that you can speed up the timing with, what is the calculated timeframe you can allow yourself to make your dreams happen?
Specific life areas to set your goals to prepare for the new year:
- Emotional: How do you want to feel overall this year?
- Physical, Health and Daily Habits and Routines Goals
- Financial: Money, Savings and Investments
- Personal Relationships and Family
- Career & Business Goals
- Personal Growth & Development and Study Goals
3. Create your aligned action plan
Now that you have completed the other steps before this one in my Best Ways to Prepare for the New Year Guide, create your aligned action plan that is in alignment with your dream life this year.
Write down all the aligned action steps you need to take to achieve your goals. Furthermore, make sure that the plan you create oversees your entire year. Additionally, break down your goals and aligned action plan into quarters (e.g. Jan-March, April- June and so on).
Journal Prompts to prepare for the new year:
What changes do you want and need to do to make your goals happen this year?
What changes are you prepared to make?
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5. Elevate your vibe to prepare for the new year
What a better way to step into your new year than by elevating your vibe!
This strategy to prepare for the new year is about preparing for the new year by elevating your vibe, doing the things that make you feel like the best version of yourself and that make you feel abundant & beautiful!
How to elevate your vibe to prepare for the new year:
- Get beauty treatments done. Get your hair done, your nails, a facial and a massage.
- Practice your self-care routine
- Visit a sauna/spa
- Buy a new chapter or era wardrobe. Okay, so maybe you don’t have to buy a whole new wardrobe. Why not just buy a couple of new wardrobe pieces that suit your new vibe and that are in alignment with the woman you are becoming. And that make you FEEL GOOD!
- Start your workout routine now
- What version of you are you becoming this year? Choose your power words for the year that match this energy! Display them somewhere that you can see them
- Celebrate. Go to a party. Go on a holiday. Have fun. Feel joy. Allow more playful energy into your life. Laugh and spend quality time with your loved ones. Do what makes you happy and what fills up your cup.
Prepare for the new year by making yourself feel like the best, most expansive, fabulous and wonderful version of YOUUUU!
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Are you going ALL IN this? Share your response with me and the Living Her Way community below. 👇💕
I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog post as much as I have enjoyed writing it!
From my heart to yours,
I hope that this year is TRULY
YOURS!
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Author: Lana
Welcome! Lana is the founder of Living Her Way. She's passionate about all things Travel and Self-Empowerment. Lana's mission is to inspire you to live a more happy and fulfilling life your way each day.
This post was a great reminder to get the old vision board out, reflect on it and work on a new one in the coming month!
And I loved the quote you shared 🙂 Good luck for your 2025!
This is a great post with very helpful tips! Thanks for sharing.
I love that you’ve provided suggestions for an action plan. I think many of us fail to act because we don’t have a plan of action!
I’ve been saying to my eldest that I need to start doing my vision board and this has prompted me. It’s a great post with things that I will consider when doing my vision board. Thanks for sharing.
Love your ideas, I always try to make a concrete plan for the new year. I have already started decluttering. Thanks for sharing.
Some really great tips here for this time of year, thank you!
I plan to create a 2025 vision board very soon, great post!
These tips are perfect for setting yourself up for success in 2025! Great advice for starting the new year on the right foot.
Great tips for starting the new year strong—perfect for setting and achieving goals in 2025!
These tips are awesome! I know I need to work on some of them 😅
“Focus on what is in front of you, not what’s behind you” is a powerful quote. You shared some great practical tips. I am goingtake your advice and write down all the challenges I faced this year and all the lessons I have learned from them. Thanks for sharing.