The 2025 Reset: How to Strategically Plan for a New Beginning

what's up guys welcome back to my channel I hope you're having a lovely day today and I hope it gets even better from watching this video today we are doing the biggest reset of your life okay you need to get ready because this is going to be your stepbystep guide SL plan for a new beginning for 20125 there's exercises there's prompts there's even a template like everything you might need to step into the new year feeling like you've got that fresh start and the excitement of like a new chapter you know exactly what you want

and you have the confidence to make it happen this is also the first video of the new year new me series that we do around here so for the next two months we're going to be making content like this to help all of us get ready for the new year so lots of tips about like setting goals habits just creating your best life in 2025 and I'm also going to be sharing like my journey of how I'm resetting and planning and all of that so yeah I'm really excited for that would love for you to

stick around and subscribe so you don't miss out on those videos and you can also check out my social media if you want to see more of my personal life so as I mentioned I turn all of these tips prompts exercises into a notion template and because I am so so sweet and nice it is free okay it's completely free you can find it in the notion template Gallery but I'm also going to have a link to it down below and you can use it with the free version of notion so you're welcome and this

video is actually sponsored by notion which I feel like is so fitting because I cannot shut up about it if you guys watch my videos you know I literally talk about it in almost every single video it's a bit hard to believe cuz I'm very taipe now but I used to be a mess okay I tried so many methods to try to get my life organized and like put together and nothing ever worked I could never stick to anything I tried all the apps all the planners the bullet journals like I've done it all and

the only thing that helped me is notion and ever since I found it I've been the organized early that I am it's literally like a second brain to me so everything that's in here is in there and it gives me so much peace to have everything in one place my whole schedule is in there my to-do list my goals planned for the year have tracking all of my work stuff literally everything if notion has no fans I am in fact not alive okay I am obsessed with it and if one of your goals for 2025

is to get really like organized and put together I feel like notion is the way to go and you can like dip your toe into it by using this free template see if you like it see if it's for you and get all organized okay the yapping session is over let me show you the template and the whole guide and walk you through all the prompts the exercises the whole plan so this guide and template is structured into two parts the first one is the reset and the review and then the second one is your

strategic plan so let me show you a quick overview of the template so this is just the main page I'm obviously going to show you everything in detail but as with everything in notion it is completely customizable you can change the banner you can change the icon you can move things around put a checklist at the top for the way I like to do my reset and the way I would follow this guide but you can totally do it however you want to so the first two steps are to clear out your physical in your

digital space what I like to do is do like a deep clean reorganize this year I'm even going to like redecorate a little bit I basically want my space to feel like it's new like I just moved into a new apartment as a former child who would changed their room around 10 billion times like this gives me a serotonin boost like no other but you just want to feel like it's clean it's fresh you're ready for a new beginning and then same thing with a digital reset I basically want to feel like I just got

a new computer a new phone it is clear I organized all of my photos I delete all the screenshots do I ever look back on them don't be silly of course not do I take a billion of them of course I go through all the screenshots of my notes app on my computer I clear out and organize my downloads folder my desktop my emails like everything that you use all the time and again we want to feel like things are clear and fresh and ready for a new chapter okay now we're going to open the

2024 at a glance page this is where you're going to do your actual review so the first thing that we're going to open is your journaling prompts page so here you've got a little over 20 journaling prompts to really have like an intense review of the Year this is going to cover literally every single aspect so you're going to write your highlights and accomplishments of the year your favorite memories who are the people that were the biggest part of your year this is one of my favorites when were you your favorite self this year so

what were you doing who were you with when you were being your favorite self I feel like this gives you a very good insight into what is actually important to you and what you genuinely actually enjoy looking at all of this is really going to help you when you are planning for 2025 I really like this one what was one action I kept doing that kept me stuck this one also love what commitment have I made that I no longer believe in I don't think I've ever asked that question in my life what talent or

skill do I have that I'm not using or taking advantage of how did I evolve in 2024 what am I leaving behind what am I most grateful for like we just want to get a very very clear view and obviously you can see all of these prompts in here and you can answer them by clicking on this little arrow and just writing your answer and then going back to the previous page you can continue this review by writing all of your goals that you set at the beginning of the year and then cross off the

ones that you actually accomplished and then write the habits you've committed to you can write the trips that you've taken whether it was to a different country a little State case doesn't matter I also like to write when I took the trip so I can have a very clear overview and then you can also write new experiences so maybe you went to a new concert or you saw the northern lights for the first time or you went climbing for the first time like whatever and then further down is your like career Financial little review so

you can just write your milestones and achievements in here and then you have your financial yearly review this is a very simple table so your you're just going to write your income for each month your expenses savings and then you'll calculate the percentage of your income that you've saved on the bottom it'll give you the sum of all of these and then the average percentage saved so you can get a very clear simple view of your finances I personally do like a budget every single year so this is really easy for me to do but

if not it might be an amazing time for you to get your finances together and if you do want to do that I'll link a video down below that will help you get started it'll guide you to to how to start budgeting how to start saving where to save all of it so I'm going to link that down below and then on the bottom is one of my favorite Parts I feel like this gives you such an amazing view of your year you can basically create your gallery so this is an example so let's say

you took a New York City trip so you can write what the memory was uh you can choose whether it was a highlight a milestone trip lifestyle something to do with your loved ones you can add these if you want to and then you can choose the month when it happened and you can even add the date of when you took this trip for example and then you paste the photo here the first photo that you paste here is going to be the one that actually shows up in the gallery but you can add way

more photos on the bottom so when you open this you can see your whole trip again really really cool way to see your whole year an idea that I had is to also create a little collage of my year and put it as my banner on the top of this page when I open this page I literally have the clearest view of 2024 in case you created a vision board at the beginning of 2024 you can paste it here so you can kind of see what happened what didn't I'm making a whole video about how

to create a vision board that actually works so keep your eyes peeled for that and then the last part of the review and reset portion is The Wheel of Life and if you guys don't know this is literally one of my favorite exercises ever whenever you need a good reset this is my go-to especially for the year so it's basically a circle with different C categories of your life so you've got money and finance career and work health and fitness Etc and then as you can see for each category you have a scale from one

to 10 so what you're going to do is you're going to mark your satisfaction level at this point for each category so let's say with money and finance I feel like I'm at a seven so I would mark seven or like color it in and then you're going to Mark where you wish to be a year from now so let's say I want to improve my finances and I want to be at a n so I would create another Mark at 9 and then I would do this for each category and then the ones where

the gap between where you are and where you want to be is the biggest are basically the areas that you really really want to focus on so that gives you such like an objective view of your year I've literally never found a better exercise that gives you that much like Clarity cuz a lot of the time when you look back on a year first of all I can feels so overwhelming it's such a big stretch of time you're like I don't even remember what happened and also things can get a little jumbled up in here

like it's very rare that you see your life very objectively and it works and it works with this exercise so if there's one thing that you do do this and we're going to come back to this so this is very important for when you're creating your plan as well notion has actually launched their new notion AI so that's this little icon here that can actually really really help you when you're using this template and when you're using notion in general so first of all it acts like a chat box so you can ask it literally

any question I use this every single day when I'm working planning my videos researching whatever I'm doing it can also revise your writing and make edits to your doc so when you're doing your journaling prompts for example you can ask it to revise your writing edit it or turn it into like points whatever you want to do and then it can also analyze and summarize PDFs and images so use that all the time for work but I feel like it would also be really cool if you're a student you can also ask it questions about

whatever is in your notion workspace so with this template for example you can ask it to help you find a specific page that you're looking for or for example I have all of my work in notion I plan all of my videos in there so I can literally ask it like what was the first video I made in July and it'll tell me which is like so much quicker and easier than like searching for it so I love that the coolest part of this that I feel like would be so amazing if you work in

a team or if you're a student is that you can connect your slack and your Google Docs and it can literally access information from both of these platforms without you having to leave notion and then you can ask it things like has there been an update regarding XYZ project that is honestly amazing and so helpful so that's just a little side note of something new that notion came out with as I've said you can get started with notion for free and you can unlock the new notion AI for only $10 a month so I'm going

to have all of that linked below all righty let's move on to the actual strategic plan so let's go back and then you've got a whole new set of journaling prompts to plot your 2025 this is going to help you so much when you're setting your goals your habits when you're deciding what you want 2025 to be about and like get very clear on that so I would definitely do that first so again same style as before there's a little over 10 journaling prompts here so you've got things like what about 2025 am I bringing

into the new year what are some of the things I can do to stretch myself out of my comfort zone what would I commit to this upcoming year if I knew that I couldn't fail that one chef's kiss what is one change or one goal that would make the biggest impact for me this is one of those things that if you only were to commit to this one thing it would literally change the course of your year or your life and that is very powerful to know I love this one if the next year is

a chapter in my life what's this chapter about so good a year from now what one thing will I be celebrating love this one as well cuz it's like a sure way like I'm going to make this happen obviously what is the identity I want to take on in this new year to help you with your goals and habits and with who you're becoming the last two are pretty fun so like how can I change my environment to better reflect where I'm going instead of where I've been and then how can I change the way

I show up physically to better reflect where I'm going I love I love all of these this is like a drug to my brain okay this gets me so excited so once you're done with that we can then actually start creating your plan so you can write your 2025 theme this is that question of like if this year was its own separate chapter what would this chapter be about and that's like a simple way to kind of stay focused and consistent like having that one word or a short sentence is really really helpful and then

your one big thing so this is again what's going to Define this year what you will celebrate at the end of 2025 so you write that here again and this really helps you to stay focused to stay on track I don't know for someone who has a very like organized brain this really helps me to like put it in a nice little box you know like this year is about that 2024 was about XYZ cuz life gets complicated like it gets messy and it's just nice to have like a tiny itty bitty sense of control

and then this is like just a little cute thing that you can do you can paste your 2025 quote this is like a random example there is a seat waiting for you at the tables you haven't even seen so this should obviously reflect your theme your one big thing and then we can start setting your goals and your habits I really like to use the 3X3 method which is basically where you have three categories of your life and then you set up to three goals for each one and your goals should be smart goals so

you can open these instructions and then down here you have how to set smart goals so you can open this shows you all the steps so for each goal that you set you can make sure that it's specific measurable achievable relevant and time back so for each one you can go through this list and make sure that it is a very very good goal because that's going to help you so so much you can either do very basic categories like lifestyle career Finance or you know whatever reflects your life or what you can do is

you can take the three categories where that Gap in your Wheel of Life was the biggest and use that as your 3x3 method so that will help you to really reflect what you want 2025 to be about and then we can get started so let's say one of your goals is you want to get into running writing I want to get into running is not a very good goal it is not very specific like what does that mean how many times are you going to run what are your specific goals like do you want to

get faster do you just want to do it consistently what does it mean to do it consistently like you don't know any of that it's a very like wishy-washy goal so we want to make it specific obviously you need to make sure that it's achievable that it's realistic for you to do in this year and then it's relevant to your life and to what you want to create which is why we spent so much time doing the review and the reset and the plotting journaling proms like now that should be very very clear and then

it should be time bound so I'm going to do the half marathon in September 2025 that is how you do that one thing that people do very wrong when they're you know creating their goals and habits for the new year is that they just write a list of like I want to get into running I want to start waking up at 7:00 a.m. blah blah blah it's very like there's no strategic plan to it okay and it hurts my little type a brain so obviously this whole goal system really helps and a lot of the

time I don't think we realize cuz we get so excited about a new beginning and then we don't realize how hard it actually is to create a new habit how much time it takes and how much better you do if you only focus on one at a time I know when you get excited you've got a reset like a new chapter you just want to change everything at once but then a lot of the time you give up on it or like you even forget what you said for yourself after like a few weeks because

there's no tangible plan to it so an amazing thing to do when it comes to your habits and something that I will do for the first time this year is to set one habit per quarter so in January February and March I'm going to start waking up at 7:00 a.m. in quarter 2 I'm going to start doing morning yoga for at least 15 minutes you can also just set the habit for the first quarter just focus on that and then when when you're done with that you set a new one for Quarter Two that way

you can make sure that it's the most relevant and authentic to where you are in your life at that point that is just one way to make sure that you're going to be a winner why wouldn't you do that okay this is so much better than setting 10 billion habits that you're going to literally forget about and insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results so we're going to change it up this year and you can follow this strategy because it works you're welcome and then you've got your wish

list so these are things that you would like to make happen but they're not goals like you're not going to take it that seriously to where you're consistently working on it so let's say that's like you want to take a road trip to the Alps or you want to go to an XYZ concert like stuff like that it's just like a cute little thing to spice up your year and help you be really happy and then you're going to create your vision board based on all of this so you want your vision board to reflect

this whole plan that you you've laid out for yourself so you can do this on cona for example and just upload it into here as I've said there's going to be a whole video on my Channel about how to create a vision board that actually works I've got lots of tips honestly not enough time to get into it today but keep your eyes peeled for that and then last but certainly not least you can write a letter to your future self that you can then read at the end of 2025 so this can be whatever

you want it to be you can write it as like a manifestation exercise so write it as if these things have already happened and then at the end of the year you can read that and see what actually came true you can write words of encouragement it can be a little love letter to yourself whatever you want so you're just going to write that in here and that is it guys that is your whole 2025 reset your strategic plan SLG guide for the New Year I'm honestly so so so excited to do this myself I

think I'm going to do it for the next video but I really want to hear in the comments what you want your 2025 chapter to be about and then at the end of the year you can literally come back and see what you wrote or we can just give each other some words of encouragement and I feel like that would be really really cute so would love to read that so make sure to leave it down below and subscribe if you want to stick around for the new year new me series and again you can

check out my social media if you want to connect more thank you guys so much for watching and I'm going to see you very very soon [Music]