The 10 Best Habits to Become Your Best Version This Year!🌼

What’s a January 1st without the urge to create a massive list of unattainable goals? Without this sudden desire to turn your entire life around, start a new hobby, and become a professional athlete (joking but not that much honestly)? Seriously, what’s it about the New Year that makes us feel like nothing in our lives is good enough? But at Picta we’re saying stop to the borderline self-deprecating goal-setting in 2025. Making new goals should be all about exploiting your potential but certainly not putting yourself down! Setting objectives for yourself is a great way to go further and further on your self-improvement journey, but there are three ultimate rules to adopt to make sure that this remains a positive experience.

First, always start by acknowledging all you have accomplished the year before, even if they are tiny little things (let’s become miss positivity). Second, BE REALISTIC. The most important thing to stick to goals and actually make some progress is to not overwhelm yourself with unrealistic expectations. Becoming a Julliard award-winning ballerina in a year without any prior ballet experience? No! Trying out a ballet class and going every week? Yes! Striking out all things sugar? Bound to fail! Incorporating more whole foods in your diet? Definitely a success! And three, always be your own cheerleader! No one should celebrate your little wins harder than yourself - you’re doing it for you and you only! Now that you have all the tools in hands for the most successful goal-setting exercise, we have compiled the 10 best habits to adopt to give you a little inspo!

10 Ways to Become the Best Version of Yourself in 2025👑

1. Embrace Micro-Gratitude 🙏🏻

You know what’s one of the best tricks to be as happy as you can be? Stop only looking at the big picture and pay attention to the tiny moments of joy throughout your day: a warm ray of sunshine on your face, listening to your favorite song, or eating a gooey chocolate cookie - these little things are what makes it exciting to get up every day!

2. Set Digital Boundaries (not Detoxes!) 💻

Breaking news: strict digital detox rules never work, they’re bound to be broken! Instead, focus on setting small sustainable digital rules such as no phone at meal time or stop using your phone 20 minutes before bed time!

3. Declutter Your Phone 📱

Anyone else feels like their phones just keeps accumulating all kind of useless photos? Blurry, 20 duplicates, wrong angles - and the number on your camera roll just keeps rising! The best thing to do is to make a habit of decluttering your phone regularly to avoid that dreaded “phone storage full” alert!

4. Print Your Pics Rather Than Letting Them Rot in Your Phone 📷

Following on the declutter habit, do you know one of the best ways to lighten up your camera roll while making the most of all your favorite memories? Printing your pics! Whether to expose on your bedroom wall, arrange in a frame in the living room, put in your wallet, or make a photo album, Picta has all the styles and sizes of pictures you could ever need!

5. Creative Playtime to Heal Your Inner Child 🎨

Dedicate some time each week to embrace your creativity without any judgement: baking, doodling, coloring, sawing - you’re allowed to make all those things your priority, they are too often unjustly dubbed as unproductive!

6. Move Your Body! 💪🏻

You don’t need to go to the gym for 3h every day (although if that’s your thing you go girl) to embrace a more active lifestyle! Whether you enjoy walking, swimming, dancing, or running around with your dog, these are all fantastic forms of exercise that will benefit your body greatly!

7. Celebrate Small Wins as Loudly as big Ones 🥳

You don’t need to climb Mount Everest to be proud of yourself! All the small steps you take and progress you make is worthy of celebration and self praises - don’t wait for the big thing to recognize how far you’ve come!

8. Some Nothing Time ☀️

You don’t alway have to be doing something! Sometimes, a little “nothing” time is all you need to increase productivity! It’s perfectly alright to just sit in the sun for a while thinking about nothing or take your time people-watching at a café, so stop guilt-tripping yourself!

9. Try New Things 📚

Alway wanted to try Chinese food? Head to your local restaurant! Been wanting to learn how to crochet for years? Watch those youtube tutorials! Debating diving into a new book genre? Go for it! Don’t be scared to challenge your comfort zone a little, you might discover some hidden passion or talent!

10. Focus on the Homemade 🥘

A little frozen pizza or McDonalds order has never hurt anyone, but focus on making homemade food most of the time! It might take a bit longer and require more commitment but you’ll save money (financial educated queens) and eat nutrient-filled meals that will boost your energy levels!