2025 has to be your year! Your eye saw shege and more last year, but you survived. 2025 is a year of leveling up, living intentionally, and enjoying the life you have worked so hard (and will continue to work) for. But let’s be realistic. Wishing for a great year without taking actionable steps is like expecting jollof rice to cook itself (if only!).
So, how do you position yourself to make 2025 your year? Here’s a blueprint:
Revamp your circle
Skepta and Wizkid capture this perfectly when they said Bad energy, stay far away! If 2025 will be your year, you cannot afford to keep hanging out with people who leave you feeling drained, angry, and unproductive.
Take a pen and paper or notepad and write down 5 to 10 people you spend the most time with (at work, online, etc.), and on a scale of one to 10, rate the person’s energy and how you feel after you hang out with them. Let 10 be great energy and impact and 1 for energy draining.
Next, begin to politely detach yourself from the people who fall short and instead surround yourself with people who uplift, inspire, and challenge you to grow. Your friends and circle should be like an iron sharpening another iron (assuming you’re also an iron in this equation). Surely, you cannot do life alone, so do it with the right people.
Work smarter, not harder.
After you’ve audited your circle, you must audit repetitive processes in your daily routine. Find the processes in your daily life that take up time and energy and simplify them.
Create a default system around which you function; this way, you spend less mental energy trying to figure out what to do. For example, you can create a system where you cook once every two days with a mix of intermittent fasting to free up time (we all know cooking isn’t a walk in the park). Furthermore, you can:
- Schedule all your bill payments so you don’t struggle to remember their due dates.
- Set up auto-transfers for your savings so your future self can actually thank you.
- Use minimal productivity tools or settings (e.g., Focus mode available on most Android devices) that help you focus on what matters.
Moreover, with the Lifestyle app, you’ll soon be able to easily automate bill payments because the last thing you need in 2025 is unnecessary stress.
Declutter your devices and headspace.
Part of making 2025 your year is clearing out digital and mental old baggage. Unsubscribe from unnecessary emails (you don’t need a daily reminder from that store you shopped at once), delete apps you haven’t used in months (you can always download them when necessary), and organize your files so you’re not searching forever for important documents.
More importantly, declutter your mind. If you don’t have healthy boundaries, now is the time to set some. Take out a notepad, watch this video, and follow through with your new boundaries. Also, prioritize your self-care and permit yourself to breathe.
It’s high time you raise your standards.
Why do you keep settling? 2025 isn’t a year where anything goes. Quit settling in your career, relationships, finances, health, and personal style. You can:
- Invest in quality, well-fitted SIGNATURE outfits because how you dress influences how you feel.
- Walk into every room like you belong there (whether you think so or not, they wouldn’t even know)
Ultimately, raise the standards of what is acceptable in and for your life. It should be evident in every aspect of your life.
Make plans to recharge and follow through.
Stop ditching your plans to recharge yourself, saying there’s a lot of work to do and you’ll rest later. If you’re constantly running on a depleted battery, how will you enjoy your wins and get yourself through the lows? 2025 is the year of intentional rest, so:
- Plan weekends off in advance
- Take breaks from social media when needed (I just returned from one, and I can tell you I had the time of my life)
- Book a short stay when you need a change of scenery
We are building the Lifestyle App to help you with the last part. Once we launch, booking a quick escape or paying your bills stress-free will be as easy as clicking a button. Sign up for the waiting list now so you don’t miss out.
Build a sensible and realistic reward system.
Success is sweeter when you celebrate the wins, whether small or big, along the way. Have you landed a new job or scaled through a rigorous interview process? Take yourself out, get a meal from Chicken Republic (I hear their moi moi is the best out there), or get yourself shortbread biscuits or cookies. Completed a stressful project? Then, plan a weekend getaway. Did you make good progress on your goals? Sleep in guilt-free.
The idea is that having something to look forward to makes the journey worthwhile. With the Lifestyle app, rewarding yourself will soon be easy.
Finally, this is not the year you just get by. Continuously audit your circle, work smarter, declutter, raise your standards, recharge regularly, and set up a reward system for yourself. When you’re ready to make ease and convenience a lifestyle, join our waitlist for exclusive access to stress-free shortlet bookings and easy bill payments.
2025 is here already. Are you going to take action? Keep a record of how it goes. Adios✌.
