The Mid-Year Life Reset Plan

+ a ChatGPT prompt to layout the next 6 months.

In this issue:

• Frameworks for making plans and choices you actually want to do

• My 3 steps to reviewing what you really want

• The aforementioned ChatGPT prompt to map out July-December

• A to-do list to make you feel like you’re getting your life together today.

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Elle Woods getting her life together is the energy we’re looking for.

Does anyone else get as freaked out by June? When I lived in the northern hemisphere, and the summer mode had been activated, it didn’t take as much of my attention. Now, down here it’s the start of winter, and it feels well…. I guess how you guys feel about January. Though now it’s halfway through the year. I think we can all collectively agree that we’ve stopped professing on New Year’s Eve that “this is going to be our year”, and now we get on with trying to stay happy, sane and maybe if we’re lucky, thriving? How is that working out for you right now? Because the silver lining of June is it’s the perfect time to hit the mental refresh button if the year of our lord (Taylor Swift) 2025 hasn’t been tracking to what you had hoped.

As I’ve mentioned in past posts, I used To Be Magnetic’s Authentic Code framework at the end of last year, to choose 3-4 words based on my authentic self that would help to prioritise and make decisions. Depending on what clicks with you, there are multiple frameworks you can try that have this values-based thinking at the heart of them, for example:

• Danielle La Porte’s Desire Map

• The Life Wheel Assessment

• Human Design

My code words I’ve been using to make choices all year have been: legacy, curation, connection and freedom.

In the past words have included adventure, creativity, spirituality and abundance. I’ve seen other people choose words or concepts like vibrant colour, self-care, wellness, learning.

I still remember when I was 27 and living in San Francisco. With the New Year, I’d seen some method of mind mapping your goals – no doubt from some tech bro on Twitter – and diligently wrote out everything I wanted to achieve that year. Nothing too crazy, just, you know: run a half marathon, finally pick up French again, apply to grad schools to get my MBA. I remember distinctly looking at the list, knowing that it was all for the external validation of the achievements, rather than because they were authentic to me.

The catch-22? Not only did I not have authentic goals, I also lacked *any* level of discipline to achieve any of them. No one tells you that a lack of discipline is actually deeply intertwined with a lack of self-worth. Read that one again. And take a sigh of relief if you’ve been holding yourself to high standards and never been able to achieve them. If you know your self discipline is lacking, doing the self-worth work will be a gamechanger because let’s be honest, when has being mean to yourself ever done the trick?

My mid-20’s inner mean girl was essentially Blair Waldorf.

This Mid-Year Life Refresh is for the person who has been struggling – not the overachiever trying to find out if there are any productivity hacks or insights they haven’t heard of yet.

Review

1. Where have you had big or small wins?

2. Have you changed any patterns of behaviour this year?

3. Have you built any good habits, or maybe settled into some bad ones you know you want to break?

4. How are you feeling - this month, and over the last six months?

Re-evaluate

1. What are the things that are currently draining you?

2. Are there parts of your job, routine, responsibilities that could be re-aligned to be improved? (e.g. starting work earlier and finishing earlier, shifting tasks off your plate, adjusting your budget or financial goals to new priorities)

3. What is a small self promise you can make today that you can commit to?

Refresh

1. Big Picture:

• What do you want to achieve in the next 6-9 months?

• How does it feel if you were to achieve that?

2. Day to Day:

• What does is this show up in your day to day? What daily beliefs or actions would it take consistently to get there?

• What would you need to change in your routine or lifestyle to do that?

ChatGPT Prompt: Act as my [whatever you prefer: therapist/life coach/manifestation coach], based on my values and goals, create a 6-month roadmap for the rest of 2025. Here’s what’s important to me: [insert your values, lifestyle priorities.] Here are my current goals: [insert what you’re working towards]

Beyond that though, here is an immediate list of things you can do for an instant dose of “I have my sh*t together”:

1. Clean your make up brushes and refresh your make up bag

2. Throw away expired spices and condiments

3. Find a small challenge to do - read 10 classic books, do yoga for 30 days, visit every beach in your city in the summer.

4. Take items to the tailor or dry cleaner

5. Clean the small, niche places: the bottom of your wardrobe, the top of the fridge, your kitchen cupboards and drawers, your laptop.

6. Handbag kit: painkillers, earrings, lip stuff, mascara, hair tie and hair accessories.

7. Review your plans for the end of the year - how on track are you to hitting them. Do a meditation first, be kind to yourself, be honest, reprioritise.

Six months can move the needle between two different realities.

Things that are possible in six months:

1. Saving a few thousand dollars.

2. Growing your social media or side hustle

3. Writing a book, writing music and posting to Spotify, selling something you painted.

4. Starting or ending a relationship.

5. Training and running a half marathon.

6. Training to be a pilates or yoga teacher.

7. Moving countries.

8. Making insane progress on a language you’ve always wanted to speak.

9. Starting certificate, diploma or other grad program to learn a new skill.

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About me: I’m Gabriella Singh, a marketing career gal by day (usually selling some of your favourite interior design or beauty brands) and writer in all the other hours. I’m based in Sydney, Australia and write about self-development, manifestation, interior design, beauty products, books, and cooking (or, to summarise, building a beautiful life, inside and out).

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