Yearly Reset

This year, give yourself the gift of a fresh start. Just because you deserve it.

I spoke briefly on Instagram stories about the yearly checklist that I started in 2016 and posted a poll... 100% percent of you said that you wanted to see it. (The people have spoken!) Completing this checklist every year has transformed the direction of our life by helping us to reevaluate the previous year (what worked? what didn’t?) and set vision for the following year. When you identify the most important priority for the following year, it’s much easier to stay in alignment and filter through opportunities in order to use your time and resources wisely.

Don’t get me wrong: This takes work. And it’s definitely draining to add one more thing to the already busy and frenetic feel of the holidays. Give yourself a day or two to rest. Enjoy the twinkle of the lights. Then hit it!

If it feels really hard, that’s because it is. Especially the first year when you’re going through decades of mess and unfinished corners. But each year it gets easier and easier. I usually assign a room a day to declutter over the time between Christmas and New Years and then assign the remainder for the rest of January.

And, as the year passes, you’ll be thanking yourself for taking care of that thing, for organizing that corner, for finally coming up with a system to store your photos so you can easily find that perfect image for Great Aunt Priscilla’s birthday, for not having to shuffle through stacks of random papers to find your passport (…because who’s traveling in 2021?! You can’t see me, but I’m emphatically jumping up and down with my hand raised high).

So, before I sign off for 2020, here’s a PDF of my Yearly Reset to give some structure and guide the process. As always, make as many changes as you’d like to fit your life.

I’ll see you in 2021, bright eyed and bushy tailed.