welcome 2025!

ins and outs, vision board and journaling prompts

Hello everyone, happy Sunday and happy new year!

I hope you have entered 2025 in the best way possible and that this will be a good year for you!

A new year brings with it a new profile picture and a new color for the newsletter, I hope you like it!

Today I want to share with you my vision board for the new year, as well as my ins and outs and the journaling prompts that I have been using daily since January 1st.

Here is my vision board. My 2025 Pinterest board has many more pins and goals attached to it, but these are the main ones.

My first day of the year is always dedicated to a long journaling session. I set goals and priorities for the new year and see how I can achieve them. I admit that 2024 was a completely chaotic year and I failed to achieve most of the goals I had. So, my action plan for 2025 is to focus on changes that I can make myself, even if it’s little by little, and on goals that I can actually achieve. It’s better to start slowly and more consciously than to set myself goals that I won’t be able to achieve. The feeling of failure is not one I want to live with or deal with, although I know it is part of life, so I prefer to focus on small changes, even if that change is just drinking more water, for example.

My Ins

• Journaling every day

• Time for myself

• Saying “no” without feeling guilty

• Spontaneity

• Gratitude

• Solo dates

• Drinking lots of water

• Private life

• Analog camera

• Other people’s sucess doesn’t cancel out my own

My Outs

• Too much sugar

• Negativity

• Too much screen time

• Inactivity

• Neglecting myself

I love making lists, but I try to keep these small because, as I've told you, my focus this year is on small changes. I want to implement new habits, namely more walking and drinking more water, and I want to stay consistent with them. I want to feel that I am more present in my life and that I am not letting time pass me by. 2025 will be about focusing on myself, on what I like to do and on the people I like and who like me.

As for journaling, it's something I want to continue doing every day and investing more in my creative side of journaling (stickers, drawings, doodles, washi-tape, postcards - a bit like “junk” journaling). I want my journal to be my diary and a source of (happy) memories.

The only two prompts I've used are "Today I feel..." and "I feel grateful for...". I had already shared on my Instagram (_lottiescorner_, if you want to follow) that my brother gave me a Leuchtturm journal for Christmas and I loved it. I had wanted one for a long time and I loved having started using it on January 1st. I know it is much more expensive than normal journals, but the truth is that you can really notice the difference compared to the journal I used to use: the pages and the cover are of better quality and it has almost twice the number of pages of the journal I used to use. I leave you with an image of my new journal and the first page I made.

Still within the scope of journaling, every month I do my habit tracker and define some affirmations for the month. My habit tracker is always the same, because I feel that these are the habits that I need to improve the most. So, in my habit tracker I have: read 10 pages a day (minimum), write (journaling, newsletter, short stories), publish the newsletter every week, avoid eating sweets every day and do my skin routine (morning and night).

As for, these are some of my favorites:

• I am enough!

• I am healthy!

• I am capable!

• I do my best and my best is enough!

• I am abundant in all aspects of my life!

As for reading, last year I set a reading goal that was too high and, surprisingly, I didn't manage to achieve it. This year I reduced my goal by half and, within that goal, I want to try new genres and read more consciously (internalize what I read and what it conveys to me, instead of just trying to cross off a goal).

In 2025, I want to finish reading all the books I started in 2024 and didn't finish, and I want to read all the books I have at home before buying new ones. Making conscious purchases is also on my list of goals, and the sooner I start, the better! In this vein, I finished reading "Hello, Beautiful" by Ann Napolitano, which I had started in January 2024, and it turned out to be a great read. It's very well written and perfectly describes family dynamics, showing us that there are bonds that cannot be broken, regardless of time and distance. Yesterday, I also finished "You Deserve Each Other" by Sarah Hogle, and what an incredible book! The main characters went from lovers to enemies to lovers, and the banter is very good. I laughed a lot with some of their pranks and moments, and it was a great companion to start the year's readings.

As for the content I consume, I started following this creator in the last few days of the year and I love her videos. They are very well made and give me a lot of comfort. The content seems like it came out of a movie. I only want to follow creators that I can relate to and whose content gives me some kind of joy or well-being. In this regard, I have already started to do a kind of "cleaning" of the people I follow on my social networks.

I would really like my 2025, if it were songs, to be a mix of "dog days are over", "ribs" and "supercut". Since there is still no mix of these three incredible songs that always leave me in a good mood, I leave you with the song that has been stuck in my head for the last few days.

That’s all for today, I hope you liked it!

See you next week,

Carlota <3