MAKE YOUR 2025 FITNESS & WELLNESS PLAN NOW
MAKE YOUR 2025 FITNESS & WELLNESS PLAN NOW
I know. We’re just into the last part of 2024, and we’re already looking ahead to 2025?
Come on man!
I know we still have a lot of time to get things taken care of this year, but now is the best time to take time to lay out your goals and wellness plan for 2025.
Often the new year means resolutions and intense goal setting; yet, for most, it’s a wish list that we never see get checked off in our ACCOMPLISHED LIST. This year, instead of setting resolutions, how about setting up a fitness and wellness plan?
I want you to think about your 2025 Fitness and Wellness Plan as your flexible, process-oriented roadmap for ongoing wellness and fitness that will be part of your life, not just this next year
STEP 1: START WITH YOUR VISION
The first step in building your plan for 2025 is to craft, or update, your vision of what being fit and having health for you looks like. This vision is your idea of yourself at your best, the fitness level you want to achieve and the healthiest version of yourself; without over-idealizing or buying into perfectionism..
Your Fitness & WellnessVision needs to be written out. This can be in the form of a narrative, bullet points, doodles, or any way you can communicate to yourself. It’s been shown those that write it out, work it out! So put that pen to paper.
Here are a few prompts you can use to jumpstart your vision writing process:
• How do you want to feel in 2025?
• What valuable lessons from 2024 do you want to carry into the New Year?
• What is your definition of “fitness” and of “wellness”? What would it mean to embody that definition?
• Imagine yourself in December of 2025. You’ve achieved your goals, followed your intentions, and integrated all you’ve learned along the way. How does fitness and wellness look and feel to you now?
STEP 2: SETTING INTENTIONS AND A FEW GOALS
Based on your vision it’s time to set some goals and intentions. Just like fitness and wellness, goals and intentions are often presented interchangeably, but they’re separate tools to support your well-being.
Goals are outcome-oriented objectives with clear and definite measures of success, while intentions are subjective and focus on the emotional experience or approach to a given situation.
Take a moment now and identify any clear, outcome-oriented goals from your vision.
These are a launch point for your 2025 Wellness Plan:
• Identify a few clear, unambiguous goals for 2025.
• Using the groundwork from your fitness and wellness vision and your 2025 goals, what immediate goals can you pursue in the next month? 3 months? 6 months?
Next, consider the parts of your plan that are less clear and tangible. These are the areas that focus primarily on emotions, what you’re curious about, and where you might want to explore your wellness.
Your intention for 2025 might include:
• How do you want to feel this year or on your journey?
• What attitude or approach do you want to take toward your wellness this year?
• What you’re curious to learn without being invested in the outcome?
• How do you want to grow and explore in the coming year?
STEP 3: MAKE YOUR WELLNESS PLAN
Now it’s time to build a roadmap towards your visions and the goals you’ve set out. Use the following prompts to help you flesh out the roadmap from where you are to where you envision yourself in the next month, 3 months, 6 months, and a year.
What tools, habits, or skills will be necessary for the first phase of your wellness plan?
• What are you planning to work on first?
• What resources will be helpful if you get stuck or frustrated?
• How do you want to feel in this process of seeking your vision?
• What roadblocks do you anticipate? How will you meet those roadblocks and work through them?
• As you work towards your vision in 2025, what will likely change in your day-to-day life?
STEP 4: TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION & BUILD NEXT STEPS
Two ways to boost motivation are to take immediate action toward our long-term plans and commit to the next steps related to shorter-term goals. Your final steps in bringing your 2025 fitness and wellness plan to life are to take a specific, concrete action and to game plan out the next few steps.
What immediate action will you take now that you’ve built your wellness plan?
It can be helpful when setting out on a long journey to remind yourself that you don’t have to know every stop along the way. All any of us need is to know the next few steps. Once we’ve taken them, we can pause, take stock, and reassess our next moves. Take a moment to consider the next few steps you’ll take from here to see your 2025 Wellness Plan to fruition.