2026 Goals

“A dream written down with a date becomes a GOAL. A goal broken down into steps becomes a PLAN. A plan backed by ACTION makes your dreams come true” Greg Reed

It’s that time of year again that everyone dreads. New year’s resolutions. I try not to put too much pressure on myself to achieve what I want right away. I also know myself and a goal of losing weight is not in the cards for me because I just don’t have the motivation.

This year I need to start a saving account. As a family we have nothing set aside and too much debt as well. The end of 2025 showed me that we need to have something. So, I plan on taking $5 a week and putting it in a new account at a different bank. Every Friday I will make a transfer. With the goal of $250 by the end of the year. It may not be a lot, but it will be a start.

The goal of debt reduction will be harder because we are stuck in a trap. However, I do hope to be able to make extra micro payments above and beyond the minimum payments each month on everything we have.

I have a stack of books in my pile to be read by independent authors I want to get to. I am hoping to remind myself that I don’t need to be perfect when I write. Everyone has a story to tell and there is someone out there who wants to read it.

That flows into wanting to push myself to write more. I hope that I can push myself enough that I will be able to start posting twice a week by June this year. Let me know what you like and don’t like so that I can focus accordingly.

As for my home life, I need to make time to keep my house picked up better. I hope to find a checklist or a routine that works for me and my family that will be easy to stick to. We have been in our home for five years this year, we want to paint the rooms. We have had white walls the whole time and we want to make it feel more like home.

The biggest goal I have this year is to be more affectionate to my husband. We are hitting the ten years mark this year and I have stopped flirting with him the way I used to. I need to show him that I love him the same now as I did then plus so much more. I need him to know I still get butterflies and still just want him above all else.