2025 Goals: What's on my 2025 bingo card?

For 2025, vision boards have been replaced by the classic bingo card as a way to manifest your goals.

At the end of 2023, I sat down with my laptop, opened Pinterest and Canva and began creating my own vision board for 2024. I had never created a vision board before, but I'd seen lots of people on social media doing so and wanted to give it a try.

I created a collage of images depicting how I wanted 2024 to look. I included images of nature walks, workout aesthetics, finished manuscripts, knitting, and Taylor Swift. I achieved some of it, but life did get in the way at times, and I often forgot to take photos of myself doing something from my vision board.

So, when I saw the growing popularity of 2025 bingo cards, I decided to hop on the trend. Following Christmas, I thought of 25 goals I wanted to achieve in 2025 and got to work.

This time, I didn't focus on finding graphics and images that visually defined my goals. Instead, I wrote a few words for each goal and kept the bingo card simple. At the bottom of my bingo card, I have some positive words that I'm hoping will be ethos for the year.

By creating a 2025 bingo card, I have set myself some achievements to work towards. I've made a plan of what I want to complete before Christmas this year and by having them laid out in a grid, it'll be more manageable.

Each goal has its own square, making it easier for me to identify them. But it will also help me when I've achieved them because I can easily tick them off one by one—the satisfaction from completing a line, a row, and the entire grid is something else to look forward to.

However, when I was creating my bingo card, I had to think hard about what I actually wanted to achieve and what was realistic. I saw lots of other bingo cards that had things such as 'Buy a house' or 'Visit the Maldives', and whilst I would love to do those things, they aren't realistic for me.

So, on my 2025 bingo card, I have things like

• Finish my manuscript

• Complete a new crafting project

• Go to Waterstones Piccadilly

• Build confidence driving

• Attend an author event

I have also created a second bingo card, which is my '2025 Bookish Bingo Card'. It includes all things book and writing related.

I loved creating these bingo cards because they made what was in my head more manageable and achievable.

So if you like to manifest and create aesthetics for the year ahead or set yourself goals, then maybe give bingo cards, or vision boards, a go. Think of some things you want to achieve and do this year.

If you do create a bingo card or vision board, feel free to let me know what you put on yours.

Until next time...