2025: Smarter Choices, Better You

Happy New Year! Here’s a quick thought as we step into 2025: Stop running from problems. Instead, pick better ones.

Happy New Year! Here’s a quick thought as we step into 2025: Stop running from problems. Instead, pick better ones.

This year, you’re not wasting time ranting about politicians who won’t change or refreshing your feed to see who said what. No more chasing every trend, watching every viral movie, or debating nonsense online. Leave the doom-scrolling and reposting empty platitudes in 2024, where they belong.

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2025 is for clarity

You’ll zero in on growing your business, mastering your craft, chasing goals, changing your environment, and spending time with people who make your life richer. It’s time to finish that course, send that proposal, and finally say “no” to what drains you. No delays. No excuses.

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Your focus will sharpen

You had plans for this year, didn’t you? You outlined them last December and has been pumped up. Well, 2025 is here, and people and circumstances shall rear up their heads, with a stronger determination to distract you. Do not be distracted.

Outsource small distractions as soon as you can. Shun procrastination. Embrace discipline. Free your mind and your time for what truly matters.

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Relationships should evolve too

Withdraw from people who water down your efforts. Avoid people who do not believe in your big dreams, even if they mean the world to you. Yes! Only keep relationships that align with your energy. It’s quality over quantity, every time this year. Don’t ever forget that!

Only keep relationships that align with your energy.

This year, remind yourself that your mind was built for brilliance and your heart for kindness. Bigger opportunities will find you, but only because you’re working smarter and harder than ever.

When 2025 ends, you’ll look back and see a version of yourself you can be proud of—someone who faced life head-on, prioritised self, built something worthwhile, and gave it their all.

Here’s to a year that challenges you in the best ways. Let’s get to work.

— Jaachị Anyatọnwụ

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Jaachị Anyatọnwụ

Jaachị Anyatọnwụ is a poet, editor, and publisher living in the suburbs of Aba. He is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks and collections including 'Under the Sheets', 'Write Me A Poem', '30', 'Isms', 'Amina', and many others.

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