The Ultimate Reset Routine Beginner Guide For Starters

Time to press the reset button!

Have you ever felt like you needed a fresh start? Like, you just want to start fresh on Monday? Or when it’s a new month? Or a new quarter?

Sometimes I’ve felt overwhelmed and stuck in a monotonous routine and felt discouraged that I’m not closer to where I want to be. However, I’ve learned over time how important it is to regularly take the time to simply pause and reset. Whether it’s the start of the week, month, or any time during the year, reset routines became very transformative to me as they provide practical steps that can help me get closer to where I want to be.

This blog post will go through the basics and importance of a reset routine. Then, you’ll be able to have a good idea of how a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and reset routine works. You will learn how you can use these reset routines to improve your productivity and bring you closer to your goals and desired accomplishments. If you also don’t like being stuck doing the same thing over and over again every week, month, or quarter, this blog post is for you.

If there’s something that you do every week, month, quarter, or year that helps you, feel free to share it with me in the comments. I’m the only one that sees them so you can be as open as you’d like!

What is a Reset Routine?

There are many types of routines that are essential to your personal growth. A reset routine is a name in itself, it’s a routine where you reset!

The types of reset routines include:

• Weekly Reset Routine
• Monthly Reset Routine
• Quarterly Reset Routine
• Yearly Reset Routine

Why is a reset routine important?

One way or another, you’ve probably experienced how challenging the demands of life can be, and how it can be easy to forget to simply pause, reflect, and make changes. Without a reset routine, we risk falling into a cycle where we keep doing the same thing repeatedly, without realizing that it’s not moving us closer to where we want to be.

That’s why, implementing a reset routine such as a weekly and monthly routine can reap many benefits such as increased productivity, better mental clarity, and enhanced your overall well-being.

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How to Create a Reset Routine

Routines are pretty much a combination of habits and steps to help you achieve a goal.

With a reset routine, it combines a number of steps to help you achieve the goal of setting yourself up for a great week/month/quarter/year ahead.

Even though there are multiple recommended steps for you to take in every routine, each reset routine is personalized to you, based on your life circumstances and situation. Nevertheless, it’s always important to find new ways to improve your current reset routines.

The next section will outline each of these reset routines. You’ll be able to read about each reset routine in depth through its individual blog posts.

Weekly Reset Routine

This is a routine to reset your WEEK! You can click here to read about this routine in depth. Here is a summary of the steps:

1. Reflection – Reflecting on the highlights of your week, what you have been doing well in, what you can improve in, etc.
2. Brain Dump – Listing down what’s on your mind.
3. Create an Achievement List – Your to-do list for the week.
4. Calendar & Schedule – Knowing what you’ve got for the week ahead.
5. Finance Check – Making sure your finances are in order.
6. Plan Outfits & Meals – Making life easier on yourself for later in the week.
7. Clean Up (digital & physical) – Fresh start.

You can also download the FREE Weekly Reset Mini Guide and checklist in the Free Resources Library here!

Monthly Reset Routine

This is a routine to reset your MONTH! You can click here to read about this routine in depth. Here is a summary of the steps:

1. Highs & Lows – What were your monthly highs and lows?
2. Highlights of the Month – Any stand-out memories, events, or accomplishments that happened in the month.
3. Theme of the Month – What the new month will focus on (e.g. better habits, more self-care, etc).
4. Goals Review & How You Can Improve – No matter what your goals are, take the time to reflect on how you can improve more this month.
5. Brain Dump – List down everything that is on your mind right now.
6. Reflect on habits – These include habits you should break and habits you would like to build.
7. Reflect on Negative Self-Talk – Think of anything negative you’ve been consistently saying to yourself. Then, think of what could replace that self-talk (something more positive). You can read this blog post to help you with turning your self-talk from negative to beneficial.
8. Find a new hobby – Find at least ONE new thing to do every month. Whether you keep doing it or not doesn’t matter, as long as you’ve tried something new. You can read this blog post for some ideas on what hobbies to start doing.
9. Set New Goals for the Month – Whether they are personal goals, career goals, or any new goal for the month.
10. Pick One Area of Your Life to Improve on – Think of any area in your life that you feel you could work on the most this month.
11. Reflect on Current Routines – Think of any routines (e.g. morning routine, night routine) that you could shake up or makes changes to so you don’t get bored doing the same thing over and over again (or keep doing something that isn’t bringing you satisfaction anymore)

You can also download the FREE Monthly Reset Mini Guide and checklist in the Free Resources Library here!

Quarter Reset Routine

This is a routine to reset your QUARTER! A quarter is every 3 months, and the end of the quarters (and the best time to do this routine) are March, June, September, and December.  You can click here to read about this routine in depth. Here is a summary of the steps:

1. Rate your life domains – On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the highest), rate these domains:

• Physical & Fitness
• Emotional & Mental Health
• Faith
• Intellectual
• Social
• Career
• Avocational (fun & hobbies)
• Finance

2. Highs & Lows – Your highs and lows for the quarter.

3. Mini-Goals for Each Life Domain – Write down at least one goal you want to achieve in each life domain, even if it’s a small goal. It doesn’t have to be a big goal, as long as it’s something that can help you improve in that domain in some way.

4. Create Focuses – This refers to what you want to focus more on this quarter (e.g. more consistency in habits, building a new project, etc).

You can also download the FREE Quarter Reset Mini Guide in the Free Resources Library here!

Yearly Reset Routine

This is a routine for the new year (or anytime during the year if you want!). The best time to do this routine is when a new year is starting. You can click here to read about this routine in depth. Here is a summary of the steps:

1. Do a solo thing – Anything, as long as you’re by yourself. This is a step in a yearly reset routine because it allows you to take the time to think about what you truly want, without input from other people. When it comes to setting goals, and truly discovering what you want, you need to do this alone and have your own space to figure it out.
2. Set a time for goal setting – Making goals will take time. You don’t have to take an entire day just dedicated to setting goals, you can still set an hour or two. This is so you can be more intentional and specific about your goals and write steps on how you’ll achieve them.
3. List your life domains – in the process of pursuing new goals, you don’t want to neglect the other areas of your life. These include:

• Physical – your bodily health
• Emotional – your mental health
• Spiritual – your connection with your beliefs
• Intellectual – how you grow your knowledge
• Social – all your relationships such as your family, friendships, co-workers, significant other, etc.
• Vocational – your job
• Avocational – your hobbies and other activities
• Financial – your personal or family finances

4. List your limiting beliefs – Identify the limiting beliefs that are holding you back from achieving your goals and change those beliefs to something that pushes you forward instead.

5. Make your goals – Make sure that your goals are specific!

6. Identify your WHY – Realistically, you’re not going to feel motivated 100% of the time. That’s why it’s important to dig deeper into why you want to achieve your goal(s) in the first place.

7. Create Systems – To tie them all together, create your steps and what you will do to achieve your goals. You can evaluate them regularly to see if they bring you closer to or further away from your goals. 

You can also download the FREE Yearly Goal Setting Routine Workbook in the Free Resources Library here! They include practical steps to help you set yourself up for a good year ahead!

Take a SMALL STEP

Have a go at trying these routines in your next week, month, quarter, or year! You can go to each of these blog posts individually:

• Weekly Reset Routine
• Monthly Reset Routine
• Quarter Reset Routine
• Yearly Reset Routine

To Wrap Up

As you can see, reset routines are extremely helpful in reclaiming your life, and making sure that you are closer to where you want to be. You don’t have to worry about taking big steps overnight, but instead focus on ONE week, month, and a quarter at a time! With the yearly reset routine, remember that you don’t have to wait until the new year to start fresh, you can start fresh at any time!

To help you out even more, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve mentioned my Free Resource Library a few times in this blog post. The Free Resources Library includes multiple free resources including a mini guide for all the reset routines, and a workbook for the yearly reset routine! You can download them for FREE here (and you’ll also be able to access my free book, Small Steps to Progression).

In the meantime, remember to take one small step at a time, because those small steps add up!

-Lauren 😊

P.S I recommend you read these blog posts next:

• 10 Mistakes with Developing Routines
• 10 Ways to Revamp Your Daily Routines
• Productive Ways to Live Your Best Main Character Life

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