Struggling to stick to your New Year’s resolutions? In this article, I share my science-backed framework for achieving your biggest goals in 2025. From visualisation techniques to daily habits and constant reflection, you’ll discover how to set detailed, actionable goals and turn them into reality. Make this year different—start now!
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If your habits don't change, you don't have a new year; you just have another year.
In this article, I will break down the following key takeaways:
The reason I want to do this is because there's no point creating these goals, spending time thinking that: Yes, I've done something well, only for you to quit within the next 4 weeks.
If you're interested to know what my thoughts are, then definitely keep reading.
Now, we've all been there—really excited around achieving new things in the new year.
We've got some goals that we set aside, and then we go out there, only for a couple of months in, to say: Hmm, maybe I'm not going to achieve them this year.
You get to the end of the year and say: All right, I didn't achieve them this year. Let me go ahead and put them on my list for next year, and I'm definitely going to achieve them.
Now, I know this hits deep for me because I've been guilty of this myself. I say to myself, "I'm going to do X amount of workouts in the year," and I get to the final part of the year and realise I didn't achieve it.
Guess what I do?
I set the same goal as my next year's resolution, and again, I don't achieve it.
Now, over the last 12 months, things started changing—not just with the workouts but more so with the personal and business goals. I found that every single year I've gone and achieved more and more of my goals despite those goals being even bigger.
I don't think this comes down to luck. I think it's because I've developed a framework that actually works, and it's backed by science.
I know that as soon as you go back to science, you're like: Oh, I better listen.
This is how I approached it. I was like, there must be a way—there's people way smarter than me that have achieved their goals, and there's a reason why they've done it. They've gone out there, learned from the best, and that's exactly what I've done here.
Now that I have a framework, I want to share that with you guys so you can go and execute on your plans.
This year will be different for you because you will have a framework—not just a goal.
You want pretty much a framework or a system to go out there and actually achieve them. If you didn't achieve them or you didn't hit the numbers you wanted, you have a proper review system that allows you to then go ahead and achieve them the following year.
The best place to start is to understand what the end goal looks like.
What I would start with is: Look at what my life looks like in 12 months' time.
One of the biggest hacks I've learned is the mindset hack around visualisation and manifestation.
I know some people are against it or some people don't understand it, so I'm going to break it down for you right now.
There is a lot of evidence to suggest that you're more likely to achieve your goals and your end goal by simply sitting there and visualising what it's going to feel like to actually achieve those things.
I know it sounds like a bit of Juju, but it actually works, and I've done it myself. So what you want to do is, on a piece of paper, write down exactly what you'll be doing in 12 months' time.
Start off with what the big goals look like, and it might be:
What you need to do next is write it down as if you've already achieved it.
For example, if I had a goal of saving $20,000, I would write: Hi, my name's Ravi. I've gone ahead and achieved $20,000 in my bank account. It just ticked over today, and I've achieved my goal of $20,000.
It feels amazing—it feels X, Y, and Z—and this is why it's important. I've done this because now I'm a step closer towards X, Y, and Z. Then you need to sit down and just absorb that.
You need to actually feel what that feeling feels like. I know I just said "feel" a lot, but I'm not sure how else to explain it.
You need to truly know what that feels like. You might be really excited, really happy, or confident in your abilities, and that is going to fuel your motivation.
The stronger your mental connection to that feeling, the greater your willpower will be to sustain it throughout the entire year.
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As you go ahead and veer off course—because the reality is, we're humans and our lives are going to have volatility—you'll always have that one feeling, that moment, to go back to.
You can say: "I know how strongly I felt about that goal, and I also know how it made me feel. That is going to motivate me to get back on track and go ahead and achieve my goals."
The next part of the framework involves being detailed, not vague. You just can't go out there and say, "I want to make more money," or "I want to be more fit." They're very vague, and that's a good place to start. However, you want to break that down and get really detailed about what that looks like.
For instance, if you want to make more money, ask yourself: How much more money do I actually want to make?"
You might decide:
Depending on what your goals are, you need to break it down from a 12-month goal to a quarterly goal, to a monthly goal, and sometimes even to a weekly goal.
This is super important because when you start off, you'll usually look at that number or end goal and think: That's highly unmotivating because I don't think I'm going to achieve it. It's so far from where I am today that it's going to take a whole new version of me to actually achieve it.
Now, you don't just flick a switch overnight and change as a person, but with progress and with habits, you definitely do change.
I've seen this in my own life.
For example, when I went through the journey of becoming more fit, it really changed for me when I heard this quote: "You have 101 problems until you only have one, which is a health problem."
That is so true. As much as I'm passionate about running my businesses, making content for you guys, and doing a bunch of other stuff in life, I need to make health a priority. So that's what I opted to do last year. In the course of that, I dropped a couple of percentage points on my body fat and about 7.5 kilos.
What's so interesting is, the more time I spent in the gym and getting my steps in, the clearer I became about how I wanted to run my business.
As a result, my business actually flourished. This connection is absolutely wild, but sometimes you've got to take a few steps back from something to see what the bigger picture looks like.
Your motivation is going to be linked with why you're doing this, and it’s something you need to refer back to every single time. Throughout the year, there will be moments where you're really excited about your goal, and then there will be moments where you completely fall off and quit.
In fact, 50% of people quit within the first four weeks of the year.
You may be reading this in the first week of January, or maybe it’s already the first week of February. By now, you’ve probably realised that you’ve either stuck to your goals or completely fallen off.
Well, 50% of you will fall off by the end of January, and only 8% will actually go on to achieve their New Year’s resolutions by the end of the year.
I want you to be in that 8%, which is why I’m sharing with you the framework that works for me, because there’s no point in creating all this hype around the new year being different, only to get to the end of the year and think: Okay, I wasted another year.
Life is precious, and we need to make the most of it.
You need to focus on doing things daily because progress compounds, and this is so true. I talk about it in terms of compounding interest and growth across investments.
If you’ve got money invested in stocks, crypto, or real estate, you already know that the small, incremental changes—which may seem minor in the moment—make a huge difference over the long term.
Whether it’s 90 days, 9 months, or 9 years, these small actions add up. Take my YouTube channel as an example: I started about five years ago. Back then, I’d get maybe 10 to 15 views per video. Now, when I upload, I get a couple of thousand views.
The work I had to put into my first few videos was far more intense, and the learning curve was a lot steeper. I had to learn how to shoot, edit, talk confidently on camera, and script my content. Then, I had to figure out how to upload it all. At the time, I had no idea what I was doing.
Today, certain parts of that process feel natural because progress compounds. That’s the same approach we need to take with our goals.
For example, if your goal is to work out, life will inevitably throw obstacles your way. Maybe something at work goes wrong, so you need to start earlier, or you’re in a flow state and smashing through tasks, only to realise you didn’t make time for that big workout.
The old me would have said: Well, I missed the workout, so I may as well just keep working.
This mindset led to skipped workouts, missed steps, and a lack of progress. When it happened again the next day, I’d find myself behind for the entire week.
In 2024, I changed my approach. If I missed a morning workout, I’d block out 20 minutes for a quick walk instead. This small adjustment kept me healthier, loosened up my hips, and helped me walk more in a year than I had in the previous 12 months.
Everyone wants to make progress and grow, but the key is to focus on small actions rather than doing nothing and beating yourself up about it.
As Steven Bartlett says, "You need to sweat the small stuff."
If you have a goal and you're not tracking, you can't measure what you can't track.
If you don't have a proper system to reflect back on the month that was, you're not going to know what to change to be able to get back on track.
The reality is, you are going to get off track, and you need to get comfortable with that. It's happened numerous times to me, whether it's on a daily, weekly, or even worse, on a monthly basis. Again, the monthly happens if you're not tracking and reflecting on the weekly.
Therefore, what you've got to start with is the micro—which is: How do I change things daily—while you've got the big vision. Then you can go out there and review the macro. You can say: Well, this quarter I did X amount. Why did I do that compared to last quarter?
Accordingly, you're going to get the best version of yourself in 12 months' time, and you're going to be proud of what you've achieved.
I hope you guys have learned so much from me in this article. Once again, Happy New Year!
I'll catch you on the next one.
Thanks, guys!
Disclaimer: Search Property Pty Ltd (SP) does not provide financial or investment advice and does not hold a financial services license as defined in the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Any advice given by SP is general in nature and does not take into account your personal circumstances or objectives, financial situation or needs.
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