8 things to help you reset in the New Year

(that don’t cost much, literally and mentally)

Valerie Victoria Gonzaga
5 min readJan 9, 2024
Photo by Content Pixie on Unsplash

You’ve seen the same things flooding in your inbox: “7 Workouts for $7!”, “Solutions for every resolution”, “Get 1 month free to try XYZ”, “Out with the old, in with the new (arrivals).” And if you haven’t, consider yourself lucky. By now I’m sure you know you do not have to have an extensive list of 5–8 NY resolutions. However, if they work for you, journey on.

Here is a curated list of things that can help frame a new start to the year that are not so much resolutions, but just simple tasks.

1. Change your phone wallpaper & reorganize apps

It is without a doubt that 2024 will continue on to be a year of heavy smartphone usage and reliance. After a quick scroll through your photos and setting a new lock screen (something positive: think family or your pet), spend 20–30 minutes reorganizing the apps on your phone. Think back to 2021 when Widgetsmith came out, try using SmartStack for important apps (maps to quickly tell you how long your commute will take, Apple News, etc.) making your daily productivity just a little bit easier.

You can also do a deep delete; this is just as efficient and results in less visual clutter. This is one the easiest things to start…

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Valerie Victoria Gonzaga

Product designer. 3x award winning ex-news writer. Believer in good tech. Occasional writer. Do gooder. Lover. Advice for Gen-Z from a Zillennial.