New Year’s Resolution: 2025
Year of the clean
2025 is HERE and I am dubbing it the Year of the Clean. Meaning the year of discovering your best clean home trends, treatments, and tools all from the experience and perspective of a professional cleaning expert: Me. I see thousands of lifestyles, aesthetics, and budgets in my daily cleaning business, so my recommendations encompass a variety of considerations to make sure it’s the best products or for your needs. And since the new year has arrived, the first order of business is to declare some new year goals.
My new years resolution is to commit to growing my business with an amazing cleaning product that becomes a staple in all homes and build brand awareness through regular social postings. Simple enough but when I dive deeper into the schematics of how to attain this, the steps just seem to pile up. So now my challenge becomes how (or what tools) will help me stay successful with my new years goals for the WHOLE YEAR. And I want to research and share my findings so that everyone can be successful and start the new year off right!
Calendar Types
I am definitely a physical calendar type of person; I love turning the pages, writing to do lists, and being able to physically see my upcoming workload. But on the flip side, there are SO MANY calendars to choose from: hourly, weekly, monthly, spiral bound, hanging, desk, journaling……It can definitely lead to a rabbit home that wastes more time than aiding you for your new year’s goals. So here are my recommendations on what calendar you should get:
If you are super type A and love to regiment every hour of your day, choose an hourly or daily calendar. For myself, I like to see the month overall and have an easy view of the whole year to organize my company goals and ideas so I like a monthly booklet calendar. Monthly calendars also have less pages and are usually more compact so I can easily switch months and create loose deadlines. The beauty of being my own boss.
I also know I only look at a wall calendar if its in the doctor’s office and a desk calendar is out of the question since my desks usually encounters a coffee spill 1x a week. A journal/booklet calendar is my go-to because I can move it with me easily if I am multitasking and I like the feel. My main point is to imagine if the calendar you are considering reflects how you really go about your day. If you are trying to be more organized and achieve new goals but are usually described as a spicy disaster, don’t immediately choose an intensely regimented calendar style. Be sure to understand how you go about daily activities and gravitate towards styles and products that fit into your schedule.
Tech Types
Technology is an amazing asset but sometimes it can be a hinderance with all the options available. But there are still some golden gems to found on the interwebs. Google calendars is a holy grail for my day to day appointments with clients. I have also found adding reminders in my phone super useful for reminding me of important tasks with deadlines. A To Do List app is also a must have in my opinion; I find a simpler design helps me organize my thoughts. My paper to do lists just have simple notes and bullet points so my mobile to do list is exactly the same. Since my mobile footprint isn’t as utilized as my physical tools, I can’t recommend too many apps so my advice is keep it simpler than you think and enjoy a small organization tool to its maximum potential.
It’s easier if you make it easy
The new year is a time to reflect on our previous year and make goals to motivate us to be the best we can moving forward. But sometimes new year goals get overshadowed by regular day to day minutia and we find December around the corner with another set of new year goals to be made and never realized. So my advice after having unrealized dreams and now making successful life happen is to keep goals a daily reminder, utilize goal keeping methods that best reflect your lifestyle, and keep tools to a simple minimum. Success is simpler than you think.
