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A new year means a fresh start to many of us. As we sadly bid farewell to a year filled with its own successes and challenges, we look up to the new year as a beacon of hope, with determination to make this year better than the ones we have had before. As we embark on this journey, we all wish to start afresh with a new set of resolutions to improve ourselves.
1. Prioritize Discipline to Achieve Your Goals
The most common issue we face with resolutions is that we often forget them and fail to remain consistent. Either we procrastinate or we struggle with maintaining good habits. And then later across the year, we give up and say, “Well Life Happened!”
What if your most important new year resolution was sticking to what you promised yourself in the beginning of the year until the very end? All you need to do is prioritize discipline as your first and most important new year resolution. The rest will automatically fall into place.
When you promise yourself discipline you will be able to exercise self control when you find yourself deviating from your path, and if you need to stop your routine because ‘Life Happens’, guess what? You will always be able to strike back and work consistently towards your goals.
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2. Develop a Reading Habit to Expand Your Horizons
Reading can sound like a cliched resolution. But what can we do, it is so beneficial that we can’t help but put it into the list.
As you read consistently it helps you deepen your knowledge, improve your communication skills, and expand your world view by ten folds! Imagine reading a magazine, and you observe a marketing strategy so effective, it earns you a bonus as you implement it for your own work place. Or, if you’re a student, reading can help you learn new words and increase your knowledge such that you are the go-to person for anything that requires creativity or subject knowledge. So, it’s important to read good quality literature and information for at least 15 minutes a day.
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3. Learn a New Skill and to Earn at least 20% More
Learning a skill that excites you and is related to the work you do can translate into money! So, is there a reason you would not keep this in your new year’s resolutions? It’s definitely hard to say no.
So, invest in hard and soft skills. You can make yourself more tech savvy, or you can take courses in effective communication. If not that, you may want to explore new skills that can help you earn more money. Do you know what is the most interesting part of it all? To learn many new skills, you don’t even need to spend a large amount of money. All you need is a little time, practice, and dedication.
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4. Expand Your Network by Making at Least 3 Resourceful Networks
Your Network is Your Net Worth!
If you aim to exceed in your career, you must work on maintaining good relations with the right people. When you expand your network, you can stay updated about many opportunities, and whenever you need help, assistance, or support, you will always have someone just a dial away.
If you wish to expand your network you should take some time out for your professional links. Perhaps maintaining a little contact when you meet someone new, can be really beneficial for you. On top of that, your networking skills can make you a resource. Because when people know you always have solutions as well as people who can materialize those solutions, you can be the ultimate go to person at your workplace.
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5. Spend At Least 8 Hours a Week on Your Physical and Mental Well Being
The key to living a fulfilled life is having a body and a mind that are agile, and happy!
For this purpose, you need to make sure your body and mind are both looked after. Adding exercise, meditation, and a little time you use for your own leisure is something you will be thanking yourself for as the 2025 ends. So why waste time, walk, meditate, exercise yourself, go to the gym, and eat healthy food. If it sounds impossible to do them all at least make sure you walk twice or thrice a week, eat healthy and nutritious food daily, and exercise in the morning. These activities will bring extremely positive effects on both your mental and physical health.
6. Steer Clear of Negativity
You get what you attract. So why think, or talk negative?
From 2025, you should aim to not participate in unnecessary gossip, not keep any unnecessary grudges, and quietly remove yourself from places where there is no productivity, and a lot of drama!
Surround yourself with positive people, and train your mind to think in ways that motivate you to do better. Create happy moments! Afterall, you live just once. There’s no point in spending your time on earth thinking, talking, or doing things that only bring restlessness and negativity in your life.
7. Spend at least 14 hours a Week with Your Friends and Family
Sometimes we are so absorbed into working for our goals and achieving success, we end up unintentionally ignoring our friends and family because we don’t have enough time. That’s how you can lose precious people in your life.
If you think you are doing it, make 2025 a year of balance. Make it a year where you start balancing your personal life and career, such that you perform optimally at work/ studies, and also make happy memories with your loved ones.
This balance may potentially slow you down on the road to success, but it’s worth it. Because you don’t want to reach success and find out you lost people who you were supposed to celebrate it with, somewhere along the way.
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8. Plan A Vacation to Refresh and Recharge
You know you need time away from your usual personal life, work/ studies to live a fulfilled life. Let 2025 be the year in which you plan vacation with your loved ones, or maybe go for a solo adventure. Travelling a bit, or doing small adventures can add colors to your life, and hey, YOU DESERVE A BREAK TOO!
9. Spend 50-60 Hours Doing Community Service in 2025
While you work to improve your own life and career, an important goal for 2025 should also be service of your own community, or the world around you. This would not necessarily need you to do something huge. If you are able to maybe you can occasionally give financial support to anyone in need. Similarly, you could organize monthly clean up drives for your area. Or visit orphanages and old homes close to you. Anything you do with the intentions of improving the lives of those around you or making them happy means you are positively contributing to your society.
So, make sure, you fill this world with kindness whenever you can in 2025!
Wishing you a very happy new year ahead!
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