At the end of December, my social media was flooded with pictures and videos of people describing how to set your goals for the new year equipped with vision boards, monthly trackers and personalised notion boards which were meant to be motivating and inspiring and set you up to have the best year of your life.
While I was quite impressed by that wave of motivation and planning, I also found it incredibly overwhelming. Please don’t talk to me about perfecting my 2025 morning routine while I am getting cosy with a book and a cup of tea next to the fireplace in the dead of winter.
I think we sometimes forget that this time of the year is meant to be about slowing down and going inward. I really felt the call to do just that this winter, much more so than other years which is most likely the reason why I am only writing this article at the end of January. And you know what that’s absolutely fine.
I have also used this time to think about the type of person I wanted to be in 2025. Thinking about how I wanted to show up for myself and for others. Not thinking about it as a complete makeover but rather as a recalibration, focusing more on what lights me up and brings me joy and much less on the rest.
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I also haven’t felt inspired to work on big goals for this new year (at least not just yet). So instead I decided to set very clear intentions for the way I wanted to show up in the world in 2025. And I wanted to share some of them with you:
1. Cultivating space and prioritising inner peace.
I no longer want to feel busy all the time and think that I have to fill up any empty slot on my agenda with something to do. I want to learn to feel comfortable in the stillness because I believe beautiful things can come into your life once you create the space for them. It’s also a call for me to try and be more consistent with a meditation practice this year, something that I haven’t been able to do in a really long time.
2. More creating, less consuming.
2024 was a bit of a creative awakening for me. Learning embroidery has made me excited about creating things again and I want to continue this exploration further in 2025. I bought my first sewing machine recently and I am very excited about the world of opportunities that just opened up to me. (PS: if you have tips, please do tell).
3. Making life more simple.
I think we sometimes have a tendency to overcomplicate things with our 10-step skincare routines, never-ending lists of supplements and agendas that are booked out months in advance. I was reading about cycle syncing recently and as I was going through the list of fruits and vegetables that you are supposed to be eating in your luteal phase but not in your follicular one and vice versa, I had already given up. While this is great information to have, I want to have more simplicity in my life instead of adding more rules to it. Focusing on what feels good and what feels right for me and my personal life circumstances.
4. No gossiping and no complaining about the things I cannot change
Sometimes we forget the power of our words. I was recently listening to someone who said that our words create our reality and I really believe that. This year, I want to be more careful about the things that I say and refrain from saying negative things, either about myself, others or the situations that I find myself in.
5. Honouring my body as a temple
This year, I want to pay more attention to how my body feels and what it needs to feel good every single day. I pushed my body to its breaking point at the end of 2023 and I spent most of the next year nurturing it back to health. I want to prioritise rest, nourishing food and movement to feel my most vibrant and energised.
These are some of the main intentions I have written in my notebook and that I try to read every other week to keep them in mind. I might continue adding to the list as the year goes on but I feel that it is already a really good starting point.
I hope you found this inspiring and if you have also set some intentions for yourself for the new year, I would love to hear about them.
Love,
