Every unsatisfactory period in life, I often wish I had a reset button for life. Just like your phone freezes or your computer freezes, just press restart and you’re done. I wish my life would be the same, press the reset button, ‘BOOM’ – turn out to be completely new, with no memories of the past, no goals for the future. I begin to choose my own way of life from now on.

In fact, I myself have ‘rebooted’ myself like this at many previous points in my life. A moment that can be considered a starting point is when I decided to pursue a minimalist lifestyle when I first moved to work in Saigon. I started to review everything about myself, my spending habits, bad health habits, and focus more on the present.

Just for fun, we humans are different from machines in that we cannot erase past memories. The people I met, the things I learned, the things I did – I will remember it all, and it created who I am today. Restarting a person takes more than just pushing a button, it’s a whole lot of effort and reminding yourself every day.

It’s a new year, and it’s also an extremely suitable time so if you want to try pressing the restart button, do it right away. If you’re thinking about ‘ new year, new me’  at the beginning of this year, here are some suggestions.

1. Seriously review your spending

Being an adult is more difficult than being a child because you have to think about money. When my salary was 3 million, I thought that a salary of 10 million would be more than enough for me to live on. When my salary was over 10 million, I still felt inadequate. So what the hell?

Luckily, minimalism came to me in time. I started learning how to record daily expenses with the Vietnamese MoneyLover application, practiced playing the game of saving 10,000 each day (polymer money without fear of spoiling), and started dividing my spending money by month, week, and month. days for better control.

2. Review your time spending

Are you in a hurry? Are you stressed? Are you running from one thing to another? If so, at the end of this year you should take advantage of the holidays to slow down a bit, carefully review the work you are pursuing, the things you are doing every day – which of these That’s really important, what can be eliminated – that will make your head lighter.

My secret is, if I were to start over again, I would choose 2-3 priority things to start doing tomorrow, things that need to be done every day. If in one week I complete those tasks well, next week I will add another goal.

3. Reflect on the work you are doing every day

On average, each of us spends 90,000 hours of our lives working. For many of us, waking up and going to work has become a habit. When you’re tired, you’re tired, when you’re bored, you’re bored – but you’re still like a robot waking up to go to work. Honestly, pursuing your passion is great, but quitting a stable job and pursuing a new field requires a lot of courage.

If you’re looking to hit the reset button for yourself, work is something you really need to review.

4. Check your motivation

If possible, I encourage you to spend time at the end of the old year or at the beginning of this new year to watch, study, read a book about psychology, life values, and motivation to discover more about this topic for yourself – if possible. You never noticed before.

What is your life value? What motivates you to do what you do? If you don’t learn good values ​​and motivations, bad values ​​and motivations will find you.

Are you living according to your values? Or are you living what those around you say is good?

5. Reevaluate relationships

People are not like objects, deciding to ‘throw away’ a person is not as easy as throwing away an item when starting a minimalist lifestyle. There are relationships that are mutually beneficial. Some relationships don’t. At the beginning of this year, perhaps you should take some time to re-evaluate your relationships?

Who is the person you love and cherish the most? Who is your best friend? Who is influencing you negatively? Who has influenced you the most in the past year?

6. Be honest with your own habits

Every day is essentially a series of habits.

If our habits are good, we have a good day. Bad habits, we have bad days. Try being honest for once, what have you spent 24 hours a day doing in the past? Have you done anything to take care of your mental and physical health? How many good habits do you have every day? Do you have any bad habits? Pressing the start button doesn’t just mean pressing it once, but pressing it every time at the end of the day to remind yourself.

If life seems bad lately, you can reboot if you want. And let’s start from today, okay?