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Build your Best Year - It isn't too late to commit to some meaningful goals for 2025. You can use my my free email series to Build your Best Year. Seven days of simple exercises that will help you plan a year of success and fulfilment.

Just 15/20 minutes a day that will yield huge impact. Join us!

The Stuff that MattRs

Monday Motivation. Let this week be the one where you spend a little time thinking about your goals & commitments for the year. You don’t really need to get them locked for another month, but this article with help you.  Bonus Stuff. You can use my annual review template to help you review and get started, and my guide to SMART goals will support you. 

Wrong. Don’t be afraid to be wrong. I use the phrase ‘help me make this better’ when I’m sharing ideas and opinions at work, by doing this I have discovered I am wrong more than I am right. And it’s OK, I’m surviving.

Planning. Maximise your planning process by asking your team these powerful questions. I think a scene setting 1:1 with team members at the start of the year is a good use of time. 

Action. How a ‘bias to action’ looks in practice. Great explanation of how you can influence your team to move fast and ship often. 

Notetaking. Handwriting > Typing. A regular reminder that the simplest tools are often the best.  Bonus Stuff. My personal productivity stack for 2025.

Productivity. No meetings before noon. An excellent idea to prioritise deep and focus work. 

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Random Journal Prompt: How do I want to feel at the end of the coming year? From my prompts for a New Year.

Bonus Stuff. Try my 30 day Journalling Challenge.
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Morning. 21 steps to a great day, an optimised morning routine. I couldn’t possibly subscribe to all of these, but take what you need and build a great routine to kick off each day. 

Thinking. Are you too self critical? Some great advice on how to change your thinking and turn your destructive voices around. MORE. 

Cheerful. 144 ways that the world got better in 2024. I have no reason to believe that 2025 will be any worse, lets be optimistic.

Principles. 63 principles for life. I love these, and they are nearly all 100% accurate. 

Finally. Spotle. Guess the artist in 10 attempts, data from Spotify will correct you as you go.  Lots of fun over Christmas with this one!

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Have you tried FlowStuff? It's my ever growing and changing playlist of music for concentration and relaxation. 35 hours of mostly beatless and wordless music. You can follow along here.

🔈 My week in Music...

My recommendation this week is No. 32 in my monthly Stuff Mixtapes - with tracks from Penelope Trappes, Marie-Flore & Julien Doré, Michelle Davies & The Truetones, Cloth, Rokysopp feat Susanne Sundfor, Fennesz feat David Sylvian and more.

Listen to Stuff #32 Here

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