On The Everygirl Podcast, we’re stocking January with only the best, most inspiring, and transformative episodes organized around five weekly themes: set your resolutions, manifest your dream life, optimize your health, tap into “Rich Girl” energy, and cleanse your relationships. To help you make the most of the start of a new year (so that 2025 can actually be your best year ever), we’ve put together the “Better Life Blueprint” Challenge around these five different weekly themes; expect episodes, articles, and exercises that will put those ~tangible tips~ into action. Follow along each week for new exercises to complete, articles to read, and podcast episodes to listen to that will help you live your best life. Consider us your accountability partner for your New Year’s resolutions. Read on below for the first week’s challenge, centered around setting new year’s resolutions you’ll actually keep.
Consider this special New Year’s Eve solo episode a master class on setting goals. Josie shares why she does not like resolutions and why 80% of resolutions fail by February so you can avoid the resolution trap (and the “resolution creep”). As a health coach who has worked with dozens of women to achieve goals, Josie shares how to hack your psychology to reach any goal you want in 2025. *Cue the champagne toast*
Wednesday, January 1: Do Josie’s New Year’s Life-Mapping Journal Exercise
One thing about waking up in the New Year is that we’re gonna be journaling—no matter how hungover you are. Today’s journal sesh includes Josie’s signature life mapping journal exercise. This is no ordinary manifestation exercise: it’s about getting all of your dreams and goals out on the page and mapping your path to them from there. It’s also about expressing gratitude because the key to getting what you want in the future is first being grateful for what you have now. Strap in, because this is a journaling exercise you can plan on revisiting in the coming weeks and months. You can either read Josie’s how-to here or listen to this week’s episode for the full scoop.
Thursday, January 2: Create a list of things you’re looking forward to this year
Record everything you’re excited about from now until 2026. Do you have a friend’s wedding, a special anniversary, a big life change, a graduation, or a fun birthday celebration? What about the little things, like a new season of your favorite TV show or a list of books you want to get through? What about the even smaller things like the changing of the seasons or recipes you’re excited to cook? This year isn’t just going to be amazing because of the plans or goals you hope happen and work toward; this year can be amazing because of the things that are already planned–that are happening without you trying or hoping for them at all.
Need some inspo for your New Year’s resolutions? Skim through this list and decide which one is best for you. For instance, talking to yourself like you talk to loved ones? That’s definitely something you can achieve by the end of the year. Reading through these will hopefully remind you that resolutions don’t have to be big, grand goals. Instead, they can be tiny ways to live a little better every single day.
Saturday, January 4: Make a Vision Board for 2025
PSA: Vision boards are way cooler than you remember them being years ago. Spend today making a vision board in whatever ways call to you: Write a simple list to hang on your fridge, DIY an aesthetic collage, or keep it digital and make a Pinterest board. For more tips and inspo, check out this article. Finish the first week of the new year strong with a vision board that can inspire you for the rest of the year.
In this guided exercise, Josie helps you tap into your highest self by guiding you through meditation, helping you see your current self through the eyes of your past self, and reminding you of why you’re proud of yourself. This is the perfect Sunday activity to help you ground yourself in preparation for tackling the first full week of 2025.
Monday, January 6: Try “Highest Self” Visualization or Journaling
Ask yourself how your highest self would show up in your day-to-day life, and then journal as if you are living your dream life in the present. Get as detailed as possible: Write about what your highest self eats for breakfast, how she feels at different points throughout the day, and what she thinks about right before she falls asleep.
MEET JOSIE
Josie Santi, Podcast Host & Senior Wellness Editor
Josie has been an editor and writer for The Everygirl since 2017 and became a certified Holistic Health Coach in 2020. As the Senior Wellness Editor, she oversees, writes, and edits wellness content, as well as reports on wellness trends and interviews the industry’s leading experts. Listen to Josie on The Everygirl Podcast.
