Our list for what’s in and out in 2024 is here. As we reset, relax, and reinvigorate, we have the chance to look back at 2023 and look forward at what’s to come. When curating our lists, we decided to take a more holistic approach to overall wellbeing, going beyond mere trends and instead focusing on what matters to help you make the most out of the coming year. Take a look at what we think is in and out for 2024 below.
What's in for 2024
IN: More Sleep
Overworking happens. Parties happen. Make sure sleep does too! The workaholic, sleep-when-your-dead, mode won’t make you rich in health. There are times like having a baby, or starting a business that take extra time away and we’re gonna get less sleep. But prioritizing sleep is best for our health, decision making, and emotional capacities. Sleep. It’s one of the big three: Diet, Stress, Sleep. Choose sleep when you can this year.
IN: Taking Care of Others
Instead of comparing ourselves to others, we will be investing our energy into making their lives better (and ours as a side-effect). Helping is the move: older folks with projects, families with kids, friends with parties, or entrepreneurs with their myriad of tasks in their work. Helping others is the main point, but helping ourselves usually starts with helping others.
IN: Low Lighting
Low lighting makes everyone look better, and sets a calmer tone for the evening. Is there anything that more quickly ruins the vibe of a bar or restaurant than those bright led lights that make everything feel like a hospital cafeteria? Light to the mood you want. Lighting includes the brightness, the area that is lit and unlit, and the color of the light. We all look better in soft light, so do our meals and cocktails. Bright lighting is great for working in the wood-shop or a fast-paced office, but it isn’t for most rooms in our home, cafe, storefront or bar. Find your mood and look good in it!
IN: Self-Analysis
We all think things about ourselves, often at very high and very low moments. Don’t let your analysis be dominated by these hot and cold moments. Self-analysis is most important and helpful in neutral times. Get to know your good attributes and your weaker ones from a clear point of view. From avoiding embarrassment from a social faux pas to better focus in your day to day, knowing what to work around is clutch. Self-analysis at neutral times has untold value. We should all be our own little coaches and therapists. The better we know ourselves the better we can lead ourselves. We can stabilize our frailties and accentuate the use of our strengths.
IN: Body Skin-Care Routine
It’s time to start incorporating exfoliation, moisturizing, and targeted treatments into your daily routines, not just for your face but your entire body. Spa-like experiences such as dry brushing, body scrubs, and luxurious body oils offer a holistic approach to self-care. Body skin care routines are a way for individuals to connect with their bodies and enhance overall well-being, so let’s make it a priority in 2024.
What's out for 2024
Out: The Word 'Custom'
Custom has lost its glamour. Everything claims to be custom, even if it’s nothing more than a color or size selection. Further, custom isn’t always best. It’s more costly and time consuming, if a ready-made piece works for us, why bother with the fuss and higher price-tag?
Out: Fast-Paced Living
The more time you take, the more you have. Slow down and take the time passing bye. We read a tennis coach’s swing advice, explaining the pro’s don’t rush their stroke preparation. There is more time than we think in the final moments before striking the ball. The more you’re aware of this time, the more thoughtfulness and control you have. The time is their if we take it. Slow down and watch how things slow down around you. There are countless articles, books and testimonies about breathing and meditation exercises that slow us down and anchor our observations. These can be great tools in decelerating, taking the span that is there and giving ourselves time to do better work, make better decisions, and better our rest and recovery. Slow down and watch your output improve in 2024.
Out: Trend Following
Trends are treacherous. But, trends are as good as they are bad. They give us exposure to new designs, stories, and even ways of life as different cultures and artists are highlighted in the never ending movements of trend. Trends tempt us to jump from one style to the next, pushing us to lifestyle whiplash if we were to comply to it’s unending demands. Trend following (as opposed to trend awareness) brings us into looks that don’t always best compliment our body type, our skin tones, or our personal energy, and it may not be overstating it to say it encourages the most extreme to even lose who they are. This year we are pulling out of trend following. We are analyzing ourselves and what trends best express who we are as we know ourselves better and let our personal style best emanate that person.
RISETTE TIP:
If the trend requires you to buy a specific item from a specific brand, try to avoid it.
Out: People Pleasing
Yes, we are taking care of others. But people pleasing neither takes care of them or ourselves. We aren’t doing things for others because we feel pressure to do so. We are doing them because it’s in our hearts or in our commitments. In my relationship I may not feel like being patient with my partner but I will try because it is my commitment to my love. That isn’t people pleasing. I won’t change healthy patterns of who I am because a loved one doesn’t understand or agree. I won’t submit to emotional bullying into activity whether it is from another or coming from my own insecurities or misconceptions. This year we are doing things for others out of love not pressure, when it’s healthy not demanded. We’re saying “no” when we need to, and “yes” only when we can and should.
