Ready, Set, Plan! | 2025 RESET

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It’s that time of year again, planner time!

This year I’m starting with a Hobonichi planner! I’m so excited I’ve been gathering stickers, and other paper accessories I have and looking through the paper craft sections at my local craft stores. Anyone else?!?

But I didn't start off with a Hobonichi I started with a notebook and multiple looseleaf sheets of paper, more often than not I always ran into trouble because I couldn’t find the looseleaf that I needed at just in time to complete the tasks that needed managing.

We’re raised in environments that either are perfectly catered to what we need or not so much, either way we learn. We’re meant to learn how to manage the resources, skills we innately have or must face the reality of learning how to attain just what we need through personal development, hard work, resilience and action.

Whether you opt to routinely set resolutions as the new year comes about or have your own preferred time of the year for a RESET, learning to break down your BIG PICTURE, long term goals down into habitual routines, to do lists, motivational workflows, as a creative entrepreneur is your responsibility, your duty, your making, though it may not come easily. You are creating a life, by design afterall, meaning although someone may have had a similar journey to yours, you are genuinely the architect and engineer of your life. How will you artfully craft and design your life to be the ultimate experience?!?

As I sit here writing to y’all I’m contemplating this new version of me. What will and should I change? Where have I fallen short? What areas of life have I been slacking in? Who have I let down? How can I improve? How can I become the bests version of me? How can I arrive at the goals I love to dream of? Am I ready to become a mother? As you read these I hope you take a moment to reflect on similar questions. When we hold ourselves to high standards and aim for them we ultimately go from being our own worst enemy to our own biggest cheerleader.

If you're looking for inspiration as you begin planning for 2025 feel free to check out my Hobonichi Planner Videos over on YouTube let’s make 2025 the greatest year yet!

A new way...

A new way of thinking, a new way of living.
A new set of habits and a few new resolutions.

2025 is just around the corner, today marks a historic day here in the US with elections and election talk absolutely everywhere.

As the day progresses inevitably emotions will take over and drama will be expressed. I pray everyone stays safe and that what we really look forward to is improvement. Genuine improvement.

Here are a few things we can do as anxiety levels run high and uncertainty approaches.

1. Control What YOU can Control
   Our Emotions, Our Character, Our Communication, Our Households, & Our Finances to name a few.

2. Find activities and events that incite UNITY within the members of your chosen group, whether that’s your blood family or not. Your community is one of your greatest influences. Look out for them. If you find that your IRL community isn’t the strongest it could be seek influences that will reinforce positive traits. We’re all constantly in a state of growth, whether we realize it or not, discerning what influences affect us with intent is critical.

3. Build Habits together. Sometimes, where we lack others excell and vice versa, always be mindful of the helpfulness and thoughtfulness of others.

4. Read, Read, Read. (audio books acceptable) As we read or listen to the perspective of those who took the time to carefully craft an idea concisely our worlds expand to at least consider that given perspective.

5. Be mindful, self aware and consider furthering your spiritual journey and understanding. Our values and beliefs will set the boundaries and filters through which we see the information read, listened to, and absorbed.

6. Consider how the election will affect your chosen way of life if it goes in one direction or the other. Jot down plans for both possibilities. As creative entrepreneurs, there are two sides to this way of life. On the one hand your creative expression is part of your essence and by the same token, making a living is how the bills get paid. How the world keeps going round and round so to speak.

7. Continual Growth is a chain reaction, share with others what you learn if they accept the information great. If they don’t perhaps they need to hear it from someone else and that is okay. Have grace with yourself every time you fall short however, don’t get too comfortable or learn to blame someone else for your mistakes. It takes reflecting to be able to see matters through many different angles. Have patience.

8. Always, Be Resilient. [:),<3.]

withallmysweetness,

Marii

Accountability as an Entrepreneur

Who/What are you accountable to?

Your family?

…friends?

… clients?

… employer? …soon to be ex boss?

…employees?

…audience?

… others?

… Yourself?

…Your Vision?

…Your Dreams?

…Your Mission?

When dealing with change we often get caught up in the emotion of the process. We do what is comfortable, we avoid making a wave to perhaps “keep the peace”. This emotion stops all progress, it causes procrastination. Finding the root of the problem is only one small step towards resolving an issue but it is a step towards creating momentum.

If you choose to pursue an entrepreneurial path, know that it will be challenging. I don’t intend to ever sugar coat the reality that is this particular lifestyle. From experience and from listening to others’ stories, no path is easy. One thing I like to remind myself is it all depends on the type of stress you want to deal with. This is why building resilience is in my opinion one of the best things you can do. As you establish the habit of getting back up after things have gone wrong it becomes second nature to pick yourself up.

Without accountability, our reasons to keep going have no foundation. Our WHY, has to be rock solid.

If figuring out your why has been challenging, pay careful attention to what makes you take action toward accomplishing the most daunting of tasks on your to do lists.

A few Qs to ask ourselves include:

What have you been procrastinating on? & Why?

How would you go about making sure someone else had completed the tasks if you had delegated it but the responsibility still fell on you?

Plan the Plans | PART 1

Ahh I’m almost turning 30! And so for me that’s a time of reflection. A time to analyze my journey so far and look for areas of improvement! ☀️

I recall struggling with resolutions myself especially those created on New Years. I instead, I enjoyed the process of creating plans goals and often reflected more around the time of completing another year of life.

In preparation of this process in the upcoming days I take the time to look at January first and ask myself: “ what can be improved/ modified so that the rest of the year goes “smoothly”? ( I say “smoothly” because my entrepreneurship journey has taught me that things don’t always go as planned… HOWEVER, not planning can be disastrous). I do this at this time because there are some other timelines and such that I have no control over but that operate on monthly, quarterly, yearly basis that affect my life. These include business operations deadlines, any medical or legal appointments, holidays that will affect project timelines and things of that nature.

Now here’s the thing… that’s only an overview perspective in terms of time constraints that can be predetermined. (Apply this as it suits your entrepreneurial calendar.)