5 Ways to Prepare for 2025

Experience more, learn more, and be ready for more!

If you’ve been trying to figure out your resolutions for the new year… stop.

We’re not making resolutions this year. We’re making changes.

If you want to experience, learn, and earn more in 2025, these 5 actions will empower you to hit the ground running.

Let’s make 2025 the best one yet!

1 – Simplify

Have your past New Year’s resolutions looked something like this?

This year I will:

Go to the Gym 6 times a week
Read 1-3 books per week
Learn Spanish
Start a drop shipping cell phone case side hustle
Write and publish a collection of personal essays
Take up carpentry

Aspirations are good. But trying to do too much will have you burnt out by January 7th.

This year, what if we committed to doing less?

Life gets complicated… and complexity has a way of spreading us thin. Instead of trying to do it all, commit to doing a few things exceptionally well.

As an exercise, ask yourself these three questions. For each of them, write down only ONE answer.

What do I want to experience this year?
What do I want to learn?
What do I want with my career?

Your mind may want to create an exhaustive list… but your job is to distill each question down until you have one over-arching priority for each. As you prepare for the New Year, keep returning to these priorities.

With simplicity comes clarity. When you take on a new project at work, or you develop a new hobby to enrich your personal life — you can weigh the value of these activities against your true aspirations.

You’ll do more of what actually matters. And get more from life because of it.

2 – Find Mentors

Now that you are focused on a few key priorities, find people who currently have those things. Make them your mentors. Rather than trying to figure everything out yourself, you can save a lot of time with clear, actionable advice from people you trust.

There are mentors for everything, and the best ones are people in your everyday life (not the talking heads with millions of followers on social media).

If you want to show up more for your kids and family in 2025… seek advice from your neighbor down the street who gets daily calls from their adult children and always has grandchildren visiting.

If you want to learn a new language… find a friend who speaks it and offer to buy them lunch once a week.

If you want to pick up some coding knowledge that will get you ahead at work… ask your programmer friend if they need help with a project. Become their apprentice.

This isn’t just a better way to develop… it’s a good way to live a quality, fulfilled life. Through mentors, you can pursue your interests and goals WHILE deepening friendships and relationships along the way.

That’s a win-win in our books!

3 – Reduce Screen Time

***Don’t forget to unplug every so often!***

Your phone is a tool for enhancing your life. Used effectively, it can get you closer to your goals for 2025… but it’s not the goal itself.

6 hours and 35 minutes daily. That’s how much time the average internet user spends online. And in younger generations, this number is significantly higher.

How much time do you personally lose, scrolling through social media and watching Reels? What if you trade 30-60 minutes of daily screen time for something different?

This isn’t about saying “TikTok is bad. Eliminate it entirely.” This is about making a small reduction that can win you back a TON of valuable time in 2025.

One super easy change you can make right now is to go into your phone settings and turn on greyscale. This will make your phone black and white. It may feel like you’ve stepped back into the 1950s, or you’re looking at one of those magic moving newspapers in Harry Potter (which is fun)…

And there’s actually a huge psychological benefit.

Our phones are made to be addictive. The pretty, enticing on-screen colors are a BIG part of why we can’t keep our eyes off them.

Early studies — like this one from the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education — suggest that this small change can lead to big reductions in screentime (and increased time to pursue the priorities you’ve created for 2025).

4 – Get Comfortable with AI

***Is this a step in the right direction? Who knows, but the cats look cool.***

This one may be controversial — depending on who you ask. But if 2024 was an indicator… AI will play a significant role in 2025.

Does this mean you have to be the ChatGPT “power user” who believes the only thing holding them back from the secrets of the universe is better prompt engineering? No.

But you should have a working knowledge of the most prominent AI tools… good, bad, and ugly included.

Take some time to play and experiment with AI. See how it performs when handling some basic work tasks and try using it in creative ways that support your goals for the year. You won’t just be learning the abilities of this emerging technology — you’ll also be learning its limitations.

83% of US professionals believe new grads should be entering the workforce prepared to use AI, and the same should apply to people who are well into their careers.

If you dive in with an open mind and find that the AI hype is overblown… now you know.

And if you discover clever ways to do more in less time… now you have a secret weapon for having more experiences, knowledge, and advancement opportunities in 2025.

5 – Be Intentional

***Get more from this year — be present in every moment!***

This point ties back to #1. In 2025, be intentional with your time. In a busy world, it’s all too easy for our minds to be in multiple places at once.

If we really want to experience, learn, and earn more this year, we need to understand that we can’t do all three at once.

If you’re at your kid’s baseball game… you are gaining experience.

When you’re reading a book… you are gaining knowledge.

When you’re at a workshop picking up a new career skill… you are gaining opportunities to learn more.

And if you try and read the book while listening to the workshop while at the baseball game… you are gaining nothing.

If you start to feel overwhelmed and lose sight of your goals, check back in with yourself. Ask:

“What is this hour for? What do I want to gain from it?”

And for that hour, be present and focused on that one thing.

Because all your 2025 goals will not come at once.

They’ll come when you string every moment of intentional focus into one incredible year.

Let’s make 2025 the best one yet!

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