Blissful new 12 months!! What new 12 months power are you? Loving the planning and renewed vigor to go to your targets? Cuddled up and immersed in winter’s coziness? Someplace in between?
I are likely to really feel stuffed with the recent slate power of a brand new 12 months and the chance to mirror, ponder, and plan. I’ve been doing simply that as I packed up Christmas decor and loved my favourite weeks of the year- those between Christmas and going again to all of the usually scheduled commitments. All of us even made imaginative and prescient boards on New Years Day in the course of the Georgia sport and shared them with one another at half time.
I leveled up my storage sport this 12 months with stackable bins, clearly labeled by room, however for tree ornaments you aren’t going to get higher than this storage container.
I really feel able to share a few of my 2026 targets, however first, a fast reflection on the intentions I set for 2025 and the way I really feel in regards to the progress made on them. I had so many I categorized them! Let’s have a look.
Household Intentions for 2025
- Discover a residence church. ✅ Now to advance that focus to getting extra constant and concerned.
- Discover a good steadiness of actions and free time. 🚫Fall was a little bit overbooked however I believe we now have a great arrange for this upcoming spring.
- Proceed with household sport nights and film nights. ✅ Extra films than video games the previous few months, however sure, these stay staples in our household tradition.
- Plug into our new group. ✅ Feeling good about this one!
- Plan a enjoyable household journey. ✅ We went to Scotland!
Monetary Intentions for 2025
- Tidy up our financial institution accounts. ✅ All of the transferring transitions and deal with updates are full!
- Maintain updated with categorizing bills so we are able to higher observe. 🚫 Now a 2026 goal- ha! We need to observe extra carefully. David is on it now together with his QuickBooks.
- Discover a native group to help. ✅🚫Ranking this as each, as I did discover the group I need to help however failed on the observe by.
Well being Intentions for 2025
- Study Homeopathic cures. ✅ I nonetheless have quite a bit to study however just a few cures are go to staples now.
- Develop a few of our personal meals. ✅ I realized a lot! Squash, beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs- it was so enjoyable to feed my fam from the backyard.
- Go on extra hikes. ✅🚫 Eh- every day hikes within the woods- YES. So many. State park hikes? One. Sure, just one.
- Share extra weblog posts about my well being pursuits and experiments. 🚫 I solely did just a few.
Private Intentions for 2025
- Develop in my religion. ✅🚫 I did study extra in regards to the bible however really feel like I didn’t plug in as a lot as I supposed to. I believe I would like some construction and steerage.
- Much less time on my telephone. ✅ I’ve reduce considerably on scrolling.
- Increase my friendships. ✅ Feeling like I’ve made good progress on this course.
- Study a brand new ability. ✅ I realized to pickle, realized find out how to look after chickens, and realized a lot in gardening!
- Make our home a house. ✅🚫 I made large progress in selecting furnishings and the fundamentals, however now I need to actually lean into the personalization.
This 12 months…. I’m within the temper to consolidate. I believe final 12 months I used to be so desirous to plug in and get established in our new city and group that I used to be full throttle in so many classes. To be honest, it labored. I now have a backyard, a rooster coop with laying hens, native buddies to textual content and grasp with, actions and buddies for the youngsters, and a powerful household that enjoys being collectively. Are there nonetheless targets to shoot for? At all times! However I’m feeling deeply grateful and content material as properly.
A really sleepy made-it-to-midnight crew!
Conserving our new 12 months day image custom going sturdy with our luck, cash, & love bowls.
My 2026 Objectives
- Personalize the home. This one is huge for me as somebody that hesitates to hold issues on the wall but craves a welcoming, heat residence that instantly tells our visitor that is who we’re. I believe I’m going to deal with one room at a time, starting with the lounge. ChatGPT helps me huge time.
- Present connection and worth right here on the weblog. The chatty posts are my favourite to jot down, however I need to steadiness that with useful content material from what I’ve realized over time making dinners for my household, elevating youngsters, working a family, planning journey, and different matters I get pleasure from discussing.
- Study to strain can. I’ve a fancy new equipment {that a} good friend guarantees is simple to make use of. I need to can rooster, salsa, and extra.
- Plug into church extra. Be a part of a bible research? Volunteer? Attend extra usually? These are all areas I’m contemplating. I’m pleased to report we’re 1/1 for brand spanking new 12 months Sundays attended!
- Get entangled with our chosen charitable group. I’m so glad I’ve discovered one which pulls at my coronary heart strings, however now I need to get entangled each fiscally and bodily.
- Take an enormous household journey. We’ve Switzerland on the books and are very a lot trying ahead to the journey! It’s trying like a travel-heavy spring and I’m excited.
- Degree up my look. I lean arduous on athleisure, which is ok for days round the home, however I’d like to begin feeling a little bit extra pulled collectively once I’m out and about or have an occasion. Particularly I’d wish to study to decorate for my physique kind, layer jewellery, apply lashes for occasions, and put money into high quality staple items in good materials with much less quick vogue.
- Eat extra fiber. Prime fiber meals: beans and legumes, complete grains, berries, greens, nuts, and seeds. The plan is to maintain my protein consumption sturdy and work on upping the fiber content material.
My greatest aim (unlisted) is admittedly to maintain up the consistency with what I’ve established. At 42 years previous I really feel in a great place with the issues I worth most. Persevering with to pour into these areas is most necessary to me as I additionally study to stretch with these new targets. I’m so grateful for this life I get to stay, the folks in it, and the chance to proceed to study, develop, and do higher with every new 12 months.
Have you ever established any targets for 2026? I’d love to listen to them!
