My 2025 New Year Vision Board
For the past few years, I’ve been making annual mood boards on Pinterest. These always help ground myself at the start of a new year. I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but I do try to evaluate old habits and build better routines. As a visual person, having a page of pretty, motivational pictures can help serve as a sort of reset button when I’m feeling overwhelmed or scattered (which, let’s be real, has been a lot of the time lately). For my 2025 New Year Vision Board, I searched for a handful of themes on Pinterest, focusing on the slow living and bookish mindset. Click here to see the full board on Pinterest. In this post, I’m sharing a little collage of the images that stand out the most to me, along with templates you can use to make your own New Year Vision Board!
What I’m Focusing On This Year: My 2025 Vision Board
Images are from Pinterest and are saved to my board here.
As I said above, I don’t really bother with resolutions. The closest thing to a resolution I have set for myself is my annual reading goal. But even that is just a loose goal I set based on what I read in 2024 – I read 130 books last year, and my goal for this year is to read at least 115 books. Otherwise, I’m working on further embracing the positive habits I developed over the past year or so — some of which fell off my radar a bit with wedding planning, my wrist surgery, and various family health issues that came up throughout the year. For me, the habits I want to focus on include getting stronger in the gym (especially post-wrist surgery) and maintaining a good relationship with food (which, for the most part, did go well in 2024!). Related to my wrist, I want to get back into crocheting in part because I miss the creativity, but also because I’ve been spending way too much time doom scrolling and playing puzzle games on my phone, and crochet helps keep me away from that.
On the more personal side, I am forever developing my resiliency, particularly in regards to anxiety, so there’s a hefty dose of self-compassion and reasonable-expectation-setting on the board, as well. As a type-A personality with a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis and lots of rejection sensitivity, it is hard for me to live in the moment, so to speak, or to accept when I can’t control everything. These things impact all aspects of my life, not just work (although I notice them most with work stuff). This was something I really tried to work on last year, especially in light of Brett and my wedding in September, and there were definitely times when I did well with it and times when it wasn’t so great. So, it’s a work in progress — such is life!
See my full 2025 New Year Vision Board on Pinterest here!
What themes are you featuring in your New Year vision board?
Let me know in the comments below; I’d love to hear about them!
Looking for some more New Year inspiration?
Check out some of my favorite literary quotes to help start your year off strong here!
*This post was originally published in January 2024. It was most recently updated on January 3, 2025.
This is a great idea! I love the visual ideas instead of resolutions. Perfect for people that learn visual.
Thanks!! It really works well for us visual learners, as you mentioned!