Happy New Years! What are your resolutions for 2025? 🎇🎆

[CynthieLu]

Happy New Years everyone! 🥳 🥂

With 2024 is coming to a close I wonder what everyone has on thier resolution list for 2025?

I think every year being more active is on my to do list, but this year I want to set some real goals and maybe get some inspiration and input for everyone here on BIC. Maybe writing it down will help us stay on track. 😉

What are you hoping to accomplish in 2025? Do you set resolutions for yourself, what have you been thinking? 🤔💕

So I came up with a few new resolutions ideas for this year,

• Finish two books I've been reading 📚 
• Exercise 3 times a week
• Learn something new 😀

But I might add to this list, it's not finished yet. 

 

Tagging a few community members to chime maybe with some of thier resolution ideas for 2025 but anyone is welcome to share and contribute in any way they like. 

@lmaster @peculiarzmakeup @CookieGirl1 @CorgiMommy @PrettyPaint @ather @AMK721 @greeneyedgirl107 @Titian06 @Shosh85 @Mellmars1185 @itsfi @danielledanielle @SportyGirly125 @PDXXXX 

[CynthieLu]

That's a great resolution @ChickenGurlie Do you think another dancer could give you some tips? The only way I know how to do a bun is with one of those foam bun circles 😅

[peculiarzmakeup]

Happy New Year @ChickenGurlie  I look forward to getting to know you better in the community! This is such a great goal, that’s such an amazing talent to do balet very cool! ❤️

[Titian06]

This is an achievable goal, @ChickenGurlie !  Practice makes perfect...or so "they" say. 😁

[danielledanielle]

Keep practicing.  However...If your dancing isn't affected by your hair (like it getting in your face), I'd kindly point this out to them @ChickenGurlie 

[Mellmars1185]

@ChickenGurlie That sounds like a resolution you can work on! All the best. Practice makes perfect, they say!

[ChickenGurlie]

Happy 2025! I haven’t thought about it much, but one of my resolutions is to just live in the moment. I feel like I’m constantly worried of what might happen, and not focused on what is happening at the moment. I just need to take a breather and realize that whatever happens, happens. And it’s for a reason. ( I will still worry to an extent lol )

[ather]

@ChickenGurlie  Another great resolution! 

[Mellmars1185]

@ChickenGurlie Happy New Year! Cheers to living in the moment a bit more🖤🤍

[itsfi]

Thanks for the tag @CynthieLu. Good luck with your goals; it'll be fun to learn something new.

My 2025 goals are an extension of things I try to work in some form every year. Some of those that I'll focus on more this year include:

• Prioritize sleep - I've been working on unplugging from electronics for half an hour before going to sleep and would like to get to an hour regularly by the end of 2025.

• Digging deeper into hobbies and skills - my plan is to devote at least a couple of hours, at least once a month, towards this goal. It might not be the same skill or hobby every month and it could be broken down to shorter increments over multiple days, but I'm looking forward to devoting more time to these things.

• Journaling more consistently - I don't have the bandwidth to spend as much time journaling as I used to, and that's fine. Some days will be a few minutes devoted to this exercise and others will be for a longer duration. I love words so just getting in a few days a week on a regular basis will be good. 

Happy New Year everyone! 

[CynthieLu]

Happy New Year to you too! 🎊 @itsfi Your list is very healing by the sounds of it. Unplugging, journaling and prioritizing a good rest. These sound sooo peaceful. I think unplugging for longer before sleep periods is so good for the mind. 😌🩷 

[itsfi]

100% agree @CynthieLu! Unplugging before bed has been good for me physically and mentally. A double win! 🎉 Ahhh, thank you. I've been working on these things in some form or fashion, though with much less deliberateness, for decades, plural. Always a work in progress. 

[CynthieLu]

I haven't done formal resolutions I'm awhile @itsfi I was more like what your describing, always a work in progress. 😉 But I am hoping I can set them down in writing and do a little better this year.🤞

[Mellmars1185]

@itsfi Happy New Year! All the best to you in 2025. Your goals sound healthy and achievable. Journaling is something that I have been curious about.

[itsfi]

@Mellmars1185, journaling has been a good for me - sometimes I'm more proactive with it and other times, I avoid it for a host of reasons. 😔 But lately, I've really been appreciating the different forms and ways to go about it and I think that I will try, at some point(s) during the year, alongside one of the wellness bingo challenges, to incorporate journaling with practicing gratitude or speaking kindly to myself. 

Do you think you would prefer journaling with a pre-designated prompt? Or writing freely? Or both? Okay if you don't know yet either. 

[Mellmars1185]

@itsfi I think the pre-designated prompt would probably help me start to eventually write freely. I am not quite sure about how or what to journal about. I hear people say good things. I am not quite sure what the benefits are. But i am intrigued.

[peculiarzmakeup]

Happy New Years! I love these goals! Thank you for starting so many amazing threads I feel like they all encompass wellness organization priorities kindness creativity and resolutions. You are such a kind person. I really appreciate you! @itsfi  Hope you had an amazing new years! 

[itsfi]

Thank you @peculiarzmakeup for your sweet words. 💖 They mean so much. I'm excited to continue to improve on these goals this year. They've definitely been a work in progress for years, decades, really. And, it's so great to be doing alongside you and others here.

[peculiarzmakeup]

Thank you! This has been such incredible platform for all sorts of goals and connecting on this journey together is truly incredible! @itsfi  🙂

[Shosh85]

Happy New Year @itsfi! 🎊 🎉

You've set some great goals for yourself! Prioritizing sleep is one I need to work on too - sometimes I get so caught up in what I'm watching on my phone and before I know it, two hours have gone by! 😬

[itsfi]

Sleep is one of those things that has just become more important as I've gotten older - I don't need a full 8 hours but I need more than I used to be able to get. It's definitely one of the most meaningful forms of self care for me @Shosh85! But yes, there are so many distractions!!! I took out the TV and have moved my phone and laptop out of the bedroom and kept them out most of the time, at least - there were a couple of days during the holidays where that didn't happen quite a I had planned. 😩😲 

Happy New Year! I hope 2025 is an amazing year for you and your family!

[Shosh85]

Thank you so much for the tag @CynthieLu! I'll have fun reading everyone's responses!

Like others have said, I'm also not much of a New Year Resolution kind of gal - but there are a few things I'm already working on:

⭐️ Be more consistent with skincare and masking 

⭐️ Eat less sugar (especially candy - I have a very strong sweet tooth 😬)

⭐️ Drink less coffee

⭐️ Be more patient/calm while driving (there are so many idiots on the road that really piss me off on a daily basis and make my anxiety skyrocket - like, why is it so hard to follow the rules of the road/the law?😠)

⭐️ Buy my own home (I'm super tired of throwing money away paying rent)