Happy New Year!
The start of a new year is the perfect time for self-reflection. It’s also a great opportunity to set some new goals and create new habits that will help you live your best year ever!
Every New Year here at Cleverpedia, we write an article about forming better goals and setting great New Year’s resolutions. (You’ll see our last two graphics, New You for the New Year Challenge and How to Set Resolutions You’ll Actually Keep, below!) This year, we wanted to try something new. This year, we put together a HUGE post with the 22 most inspiring charts, graphics, and lists to help you become the best version of yourself.
From clearing out your closet to eating better to feeling happier and more confident, these 22 graphics will guide you on your journey to being a better you.
Let’s get started!
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New You for the New Year Challenge
We’ll start out with a Cleverpedia classic from two years ago! The premise of the New You for the New Year Challenge is that if you set one new goal for each month of the year, you introduce 12 great new habits into your life by the end of the year, without overwhelming yourself by starting them all from day one. The graphic below suggests some themes, but the habits themselves are up to you! What do you want to accomplish this year?
30 Days of Self Improvement
Is a year too big a commitment right now? Why not try a month? This simple and easy checklist offers up 30 small steps you can take over the next month to reach your self-improvement goals.
13 Foolproof Ways to Improve Your Life and Become a Better Person
Okay, this graphic is a little bit of a lie… because it only includes 6 ways, not 13. You can see the full post at the source link under the graphic, with all thirteen ideas.
This graphic includes a bunch of little things you can do to improve your state of being and feel happier. Why not start improving yourself today?
36 Tips for a Better Year
Yes, I know, this graphic is a little dated, but that doesn’t make the advice any less relevant! This graphic includes 36 different tips to work smarter, live happier, improve your health, and boost your productivity. Talk about a useful set of self-improvement tips!
How to Turn a Bad Day Around
We all have bad days. It’s just what we do with them that counts.
40 Ways to Stay Creative
Whether you are breaking through creative block or writers block, or you just want to express yourself more creatively, this infographic is chock full of new ideas for you!
50 Ways to Relax without Spending Money
This enormous infographic is a guide to the do’s and don’ts of living a more relaxing and stress-free life — WITHOUT breaking the bank!
10 Money Challenges Everyone Needs to Try
Struggling to escape debt or save for that new house or car? Money troubles can have a sense of impending doom that is incredibly demotivating. Find that motivation again — and save a surprising amount of money — with one of these money challenges.
To get started, try looking for new sources of income, or instituting monthly “no spending weekends” when you literally don’t spend a dime — for an entire weekend! If you succeed at one or both of those, try one of the other challenges from the list — such as setting a goal to save a certain amount in 30 days, or no eating out for a month. It’s impressive how motivating these goals can be when you build them on top of one another. And if you fail? Step back, take a deep breath, and just try again. You can do it!
30 Ways to Practice Self-Care
Self-care is important, and too many of us neglect our own needs while we attend to others’ needs. This list is a reminder of types of physical, mental, and emotional self-care everyone should be doing to live a better life and feel happier.
The Top Habits of Healthy, Happy, Productive People
Want to be healthier this year? Happier? More productive? This informative infographic has tips to help you achieve all three! Now set some goals!
How to Look Confident (Even When You’re Not)
We all have our less-than-confident days, and if you’re like me, you feel that way pretty often. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are scientifically-backed things you can do to project confidence — and maybe even feel more confident for real, too.
The 365-Day Happiness Challenge
Little things can make a BIG impact. These 365 daily prompts and challenges will help you build your life around the small things that grow your happiness.
37 Ways to Be Happier
Happiness is not something you have or you don’t. Create happiness for yourself by building strong relationships, choosing a fulfilling career, choosing fun hobbies, looking after your body, developing a life philosophy, and creating a happy space at home.
7 Morning Habits to Change Your Life
Your morning sets the tone for the rest of the day. Optimize that precious part of the day by creating a morning routine! This graphic includes 7 ideas to get you started.
Take Back Your Mornings
Here’s another graphic about creating a morning routine. I love the charts and diagrams!
Funders and Founders: Self-Improvement Diagrams
Funders and Founders has published a variety of self-improvement diagrams designed to help you change your life. Here are some of my favorites!
A Winning Morning Routine in 9 Steps
Morning routines are important, so here is just one more infographic with tips for creating your own! Start by getting up early, get hydrated, and get some exercise!
How to Become a Minimalist
Many of us have goals to simplify and enjoy experiences more than things. The ultimate expression of those desires is minimalism! This guide from PSECU will teach you everything you need to know to take up the lifestyle of minimalism.
30 Day Minimalism Challenge
Want to try living the principles of minimalism to see what it’s all about? This 30-day challenge is a great introduction to a life of minimalism!
Decluttering 101: 25 Things to Throw Out Right Now
Maybe you don’t want to a minimalist, but you do want to simplify and declutter. If so, this quick and easy checklist is the list for you! Please note that you should recycle and donate as much as you can, rather than just tossing things!
Don’t Quit Now: Keep Your Fitness Resolutions All Year Long!
Goals about fitness, health, and weight loss are among the most common New Year’s resolutions… and the most commonly broken. Keep your goals this year with this gorgeous set of charts from Fix!
How to Set New Year’s Resolutions You’ll Actually Keep
Last year’s New Year’s infographic from Cleverpedia detailed the goal setting process and how to make your goals stick!
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