Nicholas Bate –

  1. You’ve already got a plan. You created it in January. Re-fresh it. Every day refine it, hone it and ensure it’s a winner. 

  2. You are going to be SO fit that energy for the plan will be 100% unleashed. How? Hunter-Gatherer 21C.

  3. Zero blame. Zero negativity. Zero crap food. 

  4. Every single problem commentators list for 2024/25 you will ask: Can I fix this? If yes, do so. If no, execute your plan B. But stay resourceful, walk tall and love planet Earth: consistently voted the greatest planet in the known universe with great coffee, awesome rock ’n roll and mountains, beaches and deserts to make you want to settle here. And books. Oh, man the books….

  5. It finally ‘clicks’ that you don’t need much stuff-at all-to be very, very happy. And in fact paradoxically too much stuff makes you unhappy as you worry about what might happen if you lose it. 

  6. It finally ‘clicks’ that you can let go of the need to be liked by everybody. And thus stop diluting the best version of you. 

  7. You manage your mood perfectly through music, walking and writing/reading.

  8. You finally allow some of those fears to surface, to become real and you work on them until they become assets: from fear to jubilation.  Be Bold: the list/the movie/the book.

  9. You will learn through courses. Invest 2% of your income in your brain.

  10. You will learn through travel. Every city, every language and every culture tips you deeper into understanding yourself.

  11. You will learn through the company you keep. Love, listen and laugh not control, control, control. 

  12. You will learn through writing in your journal.  Daily: rain or shine. Don’t analyse: just write until the demons are exposed and die through lack of oxygen. 

  13. Thinking will return as your greatest asset. Proactive: what do I need to anticipate?

  14. Lateral: what do I need to do differently?

  15. Critical: what do I need to do better?

  16. Prioritisation will be your greatest skill. To follow your Personal Compass*.

  17. To automate your trivial many*.

  18. To remember a decision is not a decision until you take an action.

  19. You will simplify in a world of complexity. Not simplistic, simple.

  20. You will minimalise in a world of ‘stress-by-stuff’. Do you love it? Is it useful? Otherwise: it goes.

  21. You will make 2023 the year you realise that your communication to yourself will dictate the quality of your goals. Believe in yourself. 

  22. Make it the year of more walk, less talk. In both mind and body.