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2025 Will be My Year

It's only day two of the New Year and it is already exponentially better than 2024! Those of you who have read my blog or know me personally know that 2024 was the struggle of my life (you can read about it here). Last year I was obsessed with the singer Chappel Roan and much like her album titled "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess," 2024 could be summarized as "The Rise and Fall of Ashley Earp." In the beginning few months of last year, I was the healthiest I had been in my adult life. A combination of one personal life stressor on top of another caused me to end the year right back where I started--worse-off even! However, it was as if the month of December knew that I was ready to transition back into a healthy, positive, happy mindset and I really felt the crippling, ferocious tide start to turn.

A woman in her 30's with frost on her eyelashes and the frozen ocean and a sunrise behind her
A chilly run to bring in the New Year!

I am a Type A, goal-setting type of girl and thrive during the New Year. It is my favorite time of year because it is a fresh start and so many possibilities lie ahead. As per usual, I have set some resolutions and intentions going in to 2025 and I'd love to share them with you:


  • Create a good sleep routine. I have been really struggling with my sleep for the past year, and honestly still am, but am prioritizing a full-on routine that seems to be helping some.

  • Floss regularly

  • Prioritize friendship. I have a few very quality friends and I want them to know how much I love them.

  • Express gratitude

  • Call my parents more. I need to be checking in with the greatest two people in the entire universe more! I would be nothing without my parents and it's hard to be so far away from them.

  • Work out consistently and be intentional with the effort put in to each workout

  • Drink more water

  • Expand hobbies even if I am not good at them (specifically creative hobbies like painting, photography, and embroidery)

  • Learn to cook and cook from home

  • Spend quality time with our fur babies. With FIVE pets, it can be easy to get caught up with all the tasks of just taking care of them through the days, but they are one of the very greatest joys in my life and I want each of them to know it. While Bootz is firmly glued to Billi's side, she loves snuggling and giving me lots of kisses. Molly really loves to play fetch by herself, not with her baby sister bugging her. Arya loves to lay in front of the woodstove. Rosie loves to be carried around on my left shoulder (always the left!?), and Olive loves to be outside and run. They each deserve quality, one-on-one time!

  • Journal and blog consistently

  • Have a lot of self-love and self-care

  • Stretch. I'm so damn stiff!

  • Always have painted nails. There is something about having painted nails that makes me feel so much more put together and ready to tackle the day.


With some of my priorities, there are also some things that I very passionately want to leave behind:

  • Complaining. I'm sick of hearing myself complain. I don't intend to, but I know I catch myself doing it, especially when life is hard.

  • Alcohol. After spending January 1, 2024 sick and hung-over from New Year's Eve shenanigans, I only had two alcoholic beverages in all of 2024. Sobriety is just what feels good to me!

  • Doomscrolling. Seriously my screen time shouldn't say 5-8 hours per DAY anymore. Crazy.

  • Spending money. I'm trying a no-spend year this year (longer blog post to come on this), and that's just wild for me.

  • Emotional eating

  • Procrastination

  • Holding onto grudges

  • Following trends. Staying off TikTok and no spending will undoubtedly help with this.

  • Arguing with loved ones

  • Gossiping. There is something about living in a small town that makes gossiping a norm. Maybe that's everywhere but I feel it so much more here.

  • Negative talk, torwards myself, towards others, or about life in general. Life is too precious for that.

  • An all-or-nothing mentality

  • Looking sloppy. It's easy--especially living in Nome where the weather conditions are wild year-round--to look sloppy. Trying to change that because I feel better and more productive when I don't look sloppy!


And finally, some of my concrete goals to share with you:

  • Run a half-marathon (I'm signed up for one in Anchorage in August!)

  • Continue strength training until I can see muscle definition

  • Lose 50 lbs (I know it's cliché to make a weight loss goal in the new year, but having a goal of getting healthier should always be celebrated)

  • Blog twice per week (My goal is to post every Monday and Thursday)

  • Play roller derby (I'm playing in a game in Anchorage next week!)

  • Save $15,000

  • Successfully complete at least two semesters of grad school (round two!)

  • Travel to Utah to see family and friends

  • Take one trip outside of Anchorage with My Billi


I am really, really looking forward to this year. It is the most hopeful and motivated I have felt in a while. At the very least, I know that 2025 will be better than the dumpster fire that was 2024 and I actually find a lot of comfort in that!


Happy New Year, everyone! I wish you so much magic and happiness this year!

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