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New Year Life Reset Checklist
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55 itemsA systematic reset across 8 areas of life — health, home, finances, relationships, work, digital life, family, and reflection. Not resolutions. A real reset. This free new year life reset checklist gives you a 55-item head start so nothing important slips through the cracks. it's been shaped by real families using it in real moments — the kind you don't get a second chance to prepare for. Use it as-is, or open it in Checkbloom to customise every item, share it with anyone by link (no account required on their end), and tick things off together in real time from any phone. When you're offline, changes queue and sync the moment you're back. Every Checkbloom template is free to preview and free to download as a PDF. Create a list from this template and share it with anyone by link — they can check items off in real time with no account or app download required.
What's on the list
- Health and Body
- Book any overdue medical appointments — doctor, dentist, eye exam
- Refill or review all prescriptions
- Review your sleep — is it actually enough
- Identify one sustainable movement habit you will actually do
- Review alcohol intake honestly
- Book any screening tests you have been putting off
- Update emergency contact information with your doctor
- Home and Environment
- Declutter one room properly — not tidy, declutter
- Deep clean something you avoided all year
- Fix the thing you have been meaning to fix for months
- Donate a bag of things that no longer serve your household
- Review your home insurance — is it still appropriate
- Test smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors
- Replace any dead batteries in remotes, torches, clocks
- Finances
- Cancel every subscription you have not used in 3 months
- Review all direct debits — are they all still wanted
- Check your credit report
- Set a realistic monthly budget for the year ahead
- Review your emergency fund — is it enough
- Check your insurance premiums — shop around annually
- Review your will — especially if anything changed this year
- Set up or review your retirement contributions
- Relationships
- Identify the three relationships you want to invest in more this year
- Write a message to someone you have been meaning to reach out to
- Plan one thing with your partner that is just for the two of you
- Schedule something with your closest friends — put it in the calendar now
- Think of someone who helped you this year — tell them
- Work and Career
- Update your CV even if you are not looking
- Review your LinkedIn profile
- Identify one skill you want to develop this year
- Clear and organize your email inbox
- Identify the one work habit that most needs to change
- Digital Life
- Delete apps you have not used in 3 months
- Clear your phone camera roll — back up and organize
- Update all passwords — use a password manager
- Review your privacy settings on social media
- Unsubscribe from email lists you have not opened in 6 months
- Back up your computer or phone
- Family and Household
- Update the If I'm Not Here Household Manual
- Review your children's medical and school information
- Do the Mental Load Audit with your partner
- Plan one family experience for the year — book it now
- Update your emergency contacts everywhere
- Reflection
- Name three things from this year you are genuinely proud of
- Name one thing you want to do differently
- Write down what you want this year to feel like — not achieve, feel like
- Share this list with your partner and do it together
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