I've thought a lot about my goals for 2026, and there's a lot I'd love to accomplish! Here's what made the cut for my goals for the year. You'll see much of this echoed in my monthly goals, in order to help me make progress against my yearly goals.
Financial:
- Continue to pay for both boys college expenses
- Earn $2000 in side hustle
- Stay on top of food waste with monthly pantry or freezer challenges
- Make an anonymous & meaningful donation to someone in my community
- Optimize points, perks, & miles for travel. Track value.
- Set a savings goal & be more intentional about spending.
- Monitor credit card expenses (cost of having cards & accruing points) to determine value over the year
- Find 3 expenses to optimize
- Figure out when I'm going to leave work
Family:
- Continue to help the boys navigate college & life
- Monthly dates with M
- Travel:
- Plan & have two fantastic & reasonably on budget international trips - New Zealand & Greece
- Plan a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park
- Go on four local hiking trips
- Continue bucket list travel planning
Fitness:
- Lose 10 lbs
- 125 days - strength train, No S, meditate
- Average 12,000 steps/day
- Try a new workout
- Track protein & fruit & veggie intake & set goals around this
Personal:
- 100 language lessons
- Declutter 500 items from the house
- Take a class
- Get together with friends
- Try something new & uncomfortable
- Say yes to more adventures
- Get to know our neighbors
- Host at least 4 events at our house
- Master a complex cooking technique or one difficult recipe
- Offer to have 2 networking chats with new grads
What about you? What's on your goal list for 2026?
You have some great goals! We have a European vacation planned for May, but we need to fine tune it. Right now we are thinking of staying a month, but the more I think of that much time being gone, the less appealing it is.
ReplyDeleteGreat goals! I am sure you will meet or exceed most of them! I think I said in previous post (maybe) complete my trips I have already mostly paid for in 2026, use a lot of my prolific supply of dried beans and canned vegetables, include slight modification of exercise routine to include strength and small weight. All of this is under The Nonconsumer Advocate’s statement for the New Year to do slightly better this year. I like that bc these are my same habits but with slightly more effort. Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteYou have lots of great goals for this year. I am sure that pretty much all of them will be attained.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Figure out when I'm going to leave work.
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean plan for retirement or plan to find another job? I am in the situation where I can retire, but am still working. I am trying to "Figure out when I'm going to leave work" as well.