Stop consuming content all the time

Delete social media, because 90% of what you consume is useless.

And the 10% you find useful you will never take action on.

Follow 2–3 creators you relate to and use their advice in real time, forget the rest.

There will always be 'better content', but you can't keep looking for it or you'll keep doing that for the rest of your life.

Start noting down your ideas and documenting your life

Don't kill another idea before it's born.

Give your brain space to think and reach it's best potential.

Allow yourself to get bored. Let your mind wander, allow it to think creatively.

Once you stop mindlessly consuming, you'll notice your brain starts generating its own ideas. Don't let them slip away — write them down

This will only happen if you get off your phone and limit dopamine.

Don't try to do everything — focus on the one thing

Spreading yourself thin trying to achieve everything is possibly the worst productivity advice there is.

Find the one thing you want to be a master at, and master it.

Don't get distracted and try to find something different as soon as you fail. Stick with it.

You will only turn a master once you've gone through every failure there is.

Stop planning, start taking action

Stop going through countless productivity tools and buying different productivity accessories. You already have all the accessories and advice you need.

It's time to take action.

Don't worry about being perfect, just show up for the first 3 months, and you'll automatically know what to improve.

Stop figuring out how to do it, just do it.

You don't have to be perfect

Aiming for perfectionism will you get you nowhere, except for feeling bad about yourself.

You will neglect everything you've already worked on and try to begin from scratch all the time. All this results in is a lot of wasted time and energy.

If it's 80% done, it's done. Don't procrastinate and fear whether or not you'll be able to do it perfectly.

Once again, just do it.

Forget about the fear of missing out

This has to be perhaps the biggest one on this list.

You don't have to do all the cool things. You're not missing out if you're not partying, drinking, vaping, or casually hooking up.

Make your definition of FOMO different.

For me, FOMO is wasting the most important years of my life by doing nothing.

Don't wait for the perfect time, just start

Are you waiting for the 1st of January to begin? Why waste the remaining days of the month when you can start now?

It takes time to build momentum, and real progress comes after you are used to showing up, no matter what.

Use the remaining month to build momentum.

You need all the time you have to make up for the time you've lost.

I used to wait for the perfect time too. Monday, the first of the month — it felt like a fresh start. But all it did was make me procrastinate harder. The 'perfect time' is an illusion. You either start now or you don't start at all.

Whenever you feel like starting fresh, take a small nap and consider the day as new.

Stop focusing on other people's lives

Don't care about what they think, everyone is way too busy figuring out their own life.

Stop living like an NPC in someone else's story. Write your own plot. Don't let others control your actions.

Also, stop commenting on other people's life. Use your time to improve yours.

Don't let 2025 go to waste. Begin now, and stick with the actions until you see the results.

If you don't act now, you'll be back here next year, reading the same advice, feeling the same regret.

Get up right now, and do something hard. What's the one thing you've been putting off? Deal with it for the next one hour. Don't save this article and wait for the perfect time to apply all of this advice.