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Are you looking for New Year’s resolutions? Here are 50 of the best New Year’s resolution ideas for 2025.
‘New Year’s resolutions’ You either love them or you don’t!
As the end of the year is drawing near, now is a great time to start planning goals and setting intentions for 2025.
I have put together this list of 50 New Year’s resolution ideas to help you plan and find inspiration for your New Year’s resolution.
What are New Year’s resolutions?
New Year’s resolutions are intentions or promises you make to yourself at the start of the year that will benefit your life in some way. Many resolutions are focused on health and well-being, such as quitting smoking, cutting back on alcohol, or focusing on diet.
A new calendar year is the perfect time to take on a new goal. Making January 1st the day you begin your new way of living is a sure motivator.
P.S. This year (2024) ends with a new moon making the last day of the year a super powerful time to set intentions for the next moon phase and welcome a brand new year!
The list below is organized into the following categories:
- New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Fitness, Health & Wellness
- New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Business, Career & Finance
- New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Knowledge, Mindset & Personal Growth
- New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Relationships & Social
50 New Year’s Resolution Ideas For 2025
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New Year’s Resolutions for Fitness, Health & Wellness
1. Get daily movement – Start 2025 by taking care of your physical health and make sure to get some light exercise and movement every day. Try daily stretching, getting in a short walk, taking a local run, or doing a workout routine.
2. Do a digital detox – Spend more time off screens! Put time aside each day to go screen-free, set screen-time limits in your cell phone settings to reduce time spent scrolling or decide to spend X amount of time away from social media for a digital detox. To learn more about digital detoxing, I recommend reading: 22 Screen-Free Morning Routine Ideas & Tips To Stop Doomscrolling.
3. Select a fitness goal & Build a plan – Do you have a fitness goal in mind? Decide on a specific goal and then put a fitness plan together to help you achieve your goal.
4. Join a class – Find a local class to try out! There are so many fun fitness and wellness classes from pilates, yoga, group workout classes at local gyms, to dance and much more. Go ahead and book a class you feel drawn to, many places have the option to book a block of classes if you’d like to attend on a regular basis.
5. Go on solo dates – Treat yourself more with solo dates. Put together a bucket list of places and things to do and put some time aside now and again to indulge in some you time.
6. Drink more water – Set your New Year’s resolution to drink more good quality water to increase hydration and support your body.
7. Start a balanced morning routine – Set your days up for success in 2025 by building a balanced morning routine.
8. Eat more whole foods – Work on cutting out junk food by prioritising eating whole foods in your diet.
9. Cut down on alcohol – This is probably one of the most common New Year’s resolution ideas, and it sure does make you feel good! Reduce your alcohol intake in 2025 and opt for alcohol-free options instead, or even set yourself a goal to quit drinking alcohol for a period of time.
10. Work on self-love – What does self-love mean to you? Show more love to yourself in 2025 to increase positivity, reduce stress and overall transform the relationship you have with yourself.
11. Start a meditation practice – Set aside 5-10 minutes every day to practice meditation to de-stress and help you stay present.
12. Have more self-care days – Show up for yourself by having more self-care days! Try a self-care Sunday at-home pamper day or cosy nights full of your favourite self-care activities. Check out these 100 seasonal self-care ideas to add to your self-care routine checklist.
13. Take up cooking – How are your kitchen skills? Practice cooking and learn how to cook your favourite balanced meals for a fun skill-building and health-related combo for your New Year’s resolution in 2025.
14. Declutter your home, and clutter less! – Are you someone who gets stressed with clutter lying around? Declutter your home, start with one room at a time to begin tackling any clutter you have and work on accumulating less clutter in 2025 for a cleaner, organized and stress-free environment.
15. Quit smoking – Ditch the cigarettes or vapes and quit smoking for a healthy start to the new year. Try cutting down gradually if you are not ready to quit fully. This will not only benefit your health but will save you money in the long run!
16. Explore a new hiking trail – Spend more time outdoors and take in the scenery by checking out a new hiking trail.
17. Prioritise gut health – Work on your gut health in 2025 to improve your physical *and* mental health. Opt for a holistic route to gut balancing with lifestyle and diet changes designed to support the gut.
18. Set more boundaries – Show up for yourself by confidently setting boundaries in 2025. Your boundaries are valid and deserve to be heard!
19. Start a fitness routine – Find a workout routine or fitness activity that you enjoy or want to try out and do it regularly to get fit in 2025.
New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Business, Career & Finance
20. Get a promotion – Set the intention to receive a promotion and work towards it for a career-related New Year’s resolution.
21. Start *that* business – Do you have a business idea you’ve always wanted to try out? A small business dream? Make 2025 your launch year!
22. Save money – Are you looking to save up or build better spending habits? Start adding to a savings pot once a week or monthly for a savings challenge in 2025.
23. Volunteer – Take up volunteering in the new year and give back to a cause that you feel drawn to. This is great experience to add to your resume too!
24. Apply for a new job – Are you looking for a fresh start in your professional life? Apply for a new job. You never know what is around the corner.
25. Start budgeting – Set yourself a budget and see how much money you can save, you might surprise yourself! Take a look online for a fun budgeting challenge if you need some inspiration.
New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Knowledge, Mindset & Personal Growth
26. Read more books – Are there any books you’ve yet to finish or are interested in reading? Set an intention to spend time reading them in 2025. Make a to-read list and put some time aside in your schedule each day to begin working through it.
27. Learn a skill – Choose a new skill you are interested in and make learning it your New Year’s resolution.
28. Work on your self-concept – Go on a positive mental diet and work on your self-concept to transform your confidence and manifest a whole new way of seeing yourself.
29. Learn a new language – Start 2025 by learning a new language! If you were to pick a language, what would it be?
30. Compliment yourself more – Pay yourself more compliments as your New Year’s resolution to start the year by building confidence and being kinder to yourself. This will positively impact your mindset and improve your self-concept overall.
31. Ditch a bad habit – Choose a bad habit you have and work on getting rid of it starting with the new calendar year.
32. Practice manifestation – Make 2025 the year you begin consciously manifesting a life full of your desires. Create a manifestation routine to help you embody the version of you who has your desires! Here are some manifestation methods you can use.
33. Complete a course – Take a course in something you have always wanted to learn or try something new. There are many kinds of courses to choose from, both online and in-person!
34. Improve your mindset – Begin cultivating a positive mindset and think in alignment with your goals to set yourself up for success in the new year.
35. Start a gratitude journal – Write down the things you’re grateful for every day in a journal to begin a gratitude journal practice. You can get 10 journal prompts for gratitude here to try. Practising gratitude uplifts your mood, makes you appreciate the things you may overlook and take for granted and it makes you magnetic when it comes to manifesting more positivity in your life.
36. Get a monthly planner – Become your best-organized self in 2025 by planning out your months. Try digital planning or get a physical planner! Plan and schedule your free time, work-related to-do’s, grocery shopping and recipes, bill reminders, important reminders and so on.
37. Build healthy habits – Choose better habits in the new year that will improve your life and well-being, and get to building them! Print out a habit tracker with your desired habits written onto it to help motivate you every day. You can also make a DIY version of a habit tracker in a notepad or on some paper. They’re a game changer!
38. Start a journal – Take up journaling in the new calendar year for a fun hobby that you can centre around self-care, wellness and personal growth. To learn more about journaling and begin your journal practice in 2025, read my ‘How to start a journal’ guide here.
39. Educate yourself – Be more open-minded and learn something new as your New Year’s resolution. You can take a class, read more, research topics that interest you or brush up on a skill and much more!
New Year’s Resolution Ideas for Relationships & Social
40. Spend quality time with friends/family – Appreciate and nurture the relationships you have in your life by spending quality time together. Hang out more or host a gathering and be present with those you love.
41. Make new friends – Find your tribe and call in new relationships in 2025.
42. Compliment people more – Pay more compliments to others as your New Year’s resolution. It’s crazy how one positive comment can make somebody’s day.
43. Go on a date – Bring some romance to your new year with some dating!
44. Listen to others more – Be more present and receptive when it comes to others and practice active listening to improve and further nurture your relationships.
45. Host a gathering – Could you do with spending quality time with friends and family? Host a gathering and invite them over!
46. Have regular date nights – Set your New Year’s resolution to spend more quality time with your partner by having regular dates.
47. Take a break from dating to focus on yourself – Begin your year with a break from dating to focus on self-improvement, self-love, self-care and other priorities. Fill your own cup up!
48. Attend more social events – Make it a 2025 goal to show up to more social gatherings and events.
49. Make plans with friends – For your New Year’s resolution in 2025, make plans with friends more often. Life sure gets busy, try planning catch-up hangouts or regular friend dates and make time for each other.
50. Only say ‘yes’ if you mean it – To wrap up this list of New Year’s resolution ideas for 2025, honour your boundaries and practice listening to your gut instinct by saying more ‘yes’ to stuff that makes you feel good and ‘no’ to the stuff that doesn’t.
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