Following up 2024 in review I’ve made my first outline for how I wish 2025 to turn out and how I want it to feel. As per usual this is an ongoing process as I take time to review regularly, to reflect and adjust, to ensure I build my life in the right direction. Especially when I am travelling, I get the opportunity to have some white space. My calendar is usually booked solid for weeks, both with work projects that balance social engagements, time for creativity with work-outs and all that other good stuff that makes one’s life every day. 

I have several areas that I focus on when I define what I want to focus on. I set a separate vision, intention and goals for my business that guide me through the year. However, my personal intentions for the years are often interlinked in some way with the vision for my business. You will note that in my career and knowledge category below. 

These are my areas of focus when setting goals and intentions for my personal life:

• Feeling/emotional 
  
• Energy
  
• Attitude and mindset
• Financial
  
• Career and knowledge
  
• Creativity
• Relationships 
  
• Home 
  
• Personal Brand
• Spiritual
• Travel 

These are the areas that are important to me. Each category has a description of my vision for that area or an intention, so I have absolute clarity in that area.


From this, I design my year and decide what I want to focus on and also what I want to omit. To make space for new things. When I am done with the year, I go one level down – I review my year based on months. Then I just right down to weeks or days. For example, my summer holiday, where I go offline for 4-5 weeks and travel to Italy, is always marked at the start of the year. I know when that is, so I can plan ahead and around that. 

To illustrate my  method; 

Career and knowledge

Intention: explore areas that I’m curious about and give me joy. 

Actions:

1. Create a competence development plan based on what I am curious about this year.
2. Identify books, podcasts and university courses so I can learn every day. 

Result from above: 

• I bought 12 months of access to Coursera to access top university courses in subjects I want to explore. 

• I’m currently reading Jim Kwicks book Limitless to improve my studying, recall and reading techniques. 

• I started my first course of the year at Vanderbilt University in Agentic AI. 

Create visual cues and routines to support your intentions 

To support what I have written down and anchor it, I create visual cues in the form of wallpapers for my phone and computer, that remind me about what I want to achieve, every day. 

I review my intentions for the year at least every month when I plan my month.