oh my hair's a mess god let me fix that right hi how are you it's Simranjeet Kaur Mann here
and i think this may be my last video of the year don't worry it's not my last video ever just the
last one of the year and i want to talk a little bit about new year's resolutions let's just jump
straight into it so essentially i have typically struggled with new year's resolutions i started
making my first ones like i think two three years ago and i'd make them in a note app on my phone
and i honestly would make them and then i just wouldn't look at them at all like for the rest
of the year and then i'd figure out actually like december time of the end of that year that
oh wait i actually had a new year's resolution and then i just not have anything completed or
done so this year i first i told myself i was like you know what i'm just not gonna do a new year's
resolution i just can't do it because i just don't stick to it but then i realized what the
issues with my previous new year's resolutions were was i created them and then i put them in
places where i just wasn't going to look at them i have so many notes and folders on my phone i
wasn't going to just refer to it all the time so what i needed to do was find a system where
it would be something that i look at a lot perhaps every week but also i needed a system that held
myself accountable where i'll check in with myself and i didn't have that so for next year for 2022
i am doing things a little bit differently one thing that i am going to continue doing
is i'm going to do an annual review so ali abdaal talks about this on his channel he did a video i
think sometime last year where he talks about his annual review and it's a template on notion
that you can duplicate for your own i'll put a description in the link below and it's basically
a document that goes through all these different questions that allows you to reflect on the year
now i forgot i made mine for 2020 but i did wait make one for 2020 and i looked at it recently
and albeit i didn't look at that whole review for the whole year because again it was filed
away i just didn't have a chance to look at it for the whole year and i completely forgot it existed
when i saw it again and i was reminded of it and i read through all my answers it really was nice to
read because i was so different like even though it was a space of the year my goals were different
what i was grateful for was different all my achievements were different it was really nice
to see for example one of my achievements for that year was i'd reach 2 000 followers on instagram
and it was really nice to see the level of progress that now i'm ending the year with nearly
i think 6 000 or whatever so it was really really great progress and it was really nice to reflect
so one thing i'm going to continue doing is that annual review that ali abdaal mentioned so i'm
going to do my 2021 annual review very soon but in terms of something that is a lot more present
and allows me to view things a lot more often i have decided to do two things so firstly I
saw a tick tock about this and it's posted from one of my favourite TikTokers her name's yasmin
but i've seen quite a few TikToks after her one about using this particular software um and it's
called xminds xminds is a software that allows you to create mind maps or timelines or graphs
and it's really really simple to make i would do a tutorial on how to use it but honestly i found
it really intuitive if you've got any questions about how to use it please do let me know i'll
provide a link again in the video description and it's free to use you can pay for premium but i
didn't i didn't pay for that and you get some free free skeleton templates that you can use as well
and i found that more than sufficient so i used X Mind and i created a bit of a roadmap for myself
i'll put an example up on the screen but i've blocked some of the things in there because i
am moving silent like the g in lasagna i'm really really proud of that line i'm not
gonna lie and if you follow me on instagram and in my instagram story you would have
seen me say the exact same thing but i don't care i'm using the same joke twice because
i'm proud of it i used X Mind and i basically created a bit of a roadmap for myself that'll
split in loads of different sections like health and finance and career business
mindset glow up all these different sections so feel free to use that if as well if you want and
then i had really practical goals inside each one so it wasn't so much as like for example i want to
get a six pack at the end of the year it was more so the process of how to actually get to that so
for example one of it is go to the gym three times a week and i think that's more of an effective new
year's resolution for me so before my new year's resolutions used to be literally things like get
a federal ass get a six-pack all these different things but it didn't really kind of talk about
the process of how to get there and i think that's where reading atomic habits by James Clear really
really put into perspective that you can set goals but if you don't kind of plan how you're going to
go about achieving that goal it's more like a wish rather than a goal so i think what i've been
focusing more on in this new year's resolution is building really really strong habits and i'd
say this year i've built some strong habits but i've also built some really kind of bad
ones as well i've been really consistent in my channel and everyone thinks that you know like
i work so hard and i do work really hard but i've become so much of a workaholic that sometimes i
forget to do self-care sometimes i forget to do all these different important things like
managing my finances and all these different things and i want to do that more this year and i
want to build more healthy habits that are more sustaining rather than me just working and working
and working again and burnt out so i created the roadmap and what i wanted was it to be present
something that i look at pretty much every day so i thought that i'd make it my desk top wallpaper
and i think that's something that you know i'm on my laptop every day it'll be the first thing
i see and it's pretty much unmissable so what i did was i exported the X mind roadmap and i
exported it with a transparent background it does have the watermark on it but what i did on Canva
was try and like get little squares that blended in with the background to just try and hide bits
of the watermark and i found this really nice kind of wallpaper background that you can find on Canva
you can find loads of different templates just put the roadmap on top of that designed it a little
bit the second thing that i really want to focus on and that i was missing from my previous kind of
years of new year's resolutions was accountability how do i check in with myself so what i've done is
really simple is i am going to do quarterly check-ins with myself so every quarter
i have diarised in my calendar that i will be checking in with my roadmap crossing out anything
that's already been achieved hopefully it'll be great if things are achieved early in the year and
replacing it with new goals that i can do for the rest of the year so of course priorities change
throughout the year we all know that things don't stay constant things can change any minute so
if things do change i'm able to adapt to that and i rearrange my goals accordingly so that's all
the things that i've done to make myself ready for the new year and it literally took me one evening
to just sort out and i felt a lot more kind of clear-headed i had a lot of i guess worries about
wanting to be that girl for the new year you know i'm really really excited to see how
i get going so yeah hopefully that's everything i think this is like a short and sweet video but
i ended up i was it was meant to be a short sweet video but i ended up rambling for so long i hope
you've all had a really lovely Christmas break and an absolutely amazing new year thank you again for
all of your support and i cannot cannot thank you all enough for all the support and love you
give me honestly it makes my heart really really warm have a great new year feel free to message if
you've got any questions thank you so much for watching and i'll see you all in the next one