Plan for 2025 and Beyond

Open digital planner and assess progress against goals. This reinforces the 'anchoring bias' by using past goals as a reference point.

“There is literally no point beginning to plan if you haven't reflected on the last year.”

Note what was achieved, what habits worked, and what roadblocks prevented goal attainment. Break roadblocks into controllable and uncontrollable factors. Understanding 'attribution bias' helps you accurately assess your role in successes and failures.

Type out random notes about each part of life: who you want to be, how you want to live, and what you want to do. Freewriting can help overcome 'analysis paralysis'.

Use ChatGPT to write a 'day in the life' scenario based on achieving your goals. This AI-assisted activity helps elaborate on the vision, providing a concrete and inspiring narrative to guide future actions. This further enhances affective forecasting and provides a vivid mental simulation of success.

Create a vision board in your digital planner and set it as your phone background or somewhere visible. This makes use of the 'mere-exposure effect' to increase familiarity and positive feelings towards your goals.

Organize goals into personal development, relationships, finances, career/business, attitude/mindset, and health. Categorization aids in 'mental accounting', helping allocate attention and resources effectively.

Ensure goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (SMART). This provides a clear framework for preventing 'scope creep' and maintaining focus.

Use ChatGPT to transform vague goals into SMART goals. This AI-driven activity refines goals to be more concrete and actionable, leveraging AI's ability to analyze and structure information. This enhances the effectiveness of goal-setting by reducing ambiguity.

Break down big yearly goals into small, daily habits. This makes goals more manageable and reduces the feeling of being overwhelmed.

Use ChatGPT to create a weekly schedule incorporating new habits. This AI-assisted activity helps visualize how new habits integrate into daily routines, increasing the likelihood of adherence. This also addresses the 'availability heuristic' by making the execution of habits top-of-mind.

Input habits into a habit tracker and log progress daily. Habit tracking utilizes the 'Zeigarnik effect' by reminding you of incomplete tasks, and visual tracking taps into the 'information bias' by making progress salient.

Break down yearly goals into smaller, monthly targets. This creates a sense of progress and helps maintain momentum.

Review progress monthly and adjust goals and habits as needed. This allows for course correction and adaptation to unforeseen circumstances, demonstrating 'cognitive flexibility'.

A daily routine to track and monitor progress on established habits. Review your habit tracker and reflect on any deviations from your planned schedule. Consider adjusting your targets based on the previous day's data.