My 2026 Goals (and a Printable Goal Sheet)

I love setting goals in the new year! These are a few of my goals for 2026, plus a free printable goal chart.

 

My 2026 Goals

Happy New Year! I love setting goals in the new year to stretch myself and add good things to my life.

Today I wanted to share a few of my goals for 2026. As much as I love setting goals, some of these are repeat goals from last year because I didn’t accomplish them. But I’ll just keep setting goals because it helps me improve my life!

 

My word of the year.

I don’t usually choose a word of the year, cause I don’t ever have a particular word that has stuck out to me and feels like something I need to focus on. But this year I’ve had this word circulating in my head for weeks, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

This year my word is CREATIVITY.

I feel like I’ve been in a creativity rut for the past year or so. I’m struggling to feel creative in my content, my outfits, and my life in general. I love being creative and consider myself a creative person, but I feel like I’ve been stuck for a while. This year I’m bring my creative spark back!

 

Check out my free printable goal sheet

If you want to set goals or help your family set goals for 2026, I have a free printable goal chart in THIS POST.

 

A few of my goals for 2026

HEALTH GOALS

•  Sauna and cold plunge after every workout possible. This year I started going to Orange Theory gym because it pushed me to get out of the house and get a great workout done in one hour. But since I’m not working out at our home gym as much, I haven’t been using the sauna and cold plunge hardly at all. This year I’m getting back to it. It’s so good for your body!
• Red light mask at least once a day. I’ve been pretty good at using my red light mask once per day this year, but I’m going to try to add a night time session. I got my husband a red light mask for Christmas so I plan to do it with him each night.
• Weekly meal prep consistently. I got pretty good at this for a while in 2025, but I really want to be consistent with this all year. It makes my life and my days go so much more smoothly when I have healthy meals prepped at the beginning of the week.
• Cook out of cookbooks more often. I love cookbooks and I have many of them, and I’m going to be better about using them this year for our family dinners. I’m bored of the recipes I’ve been making on Pinterest for the last few years, so it’s time for a refresh.

RELATIONSHIP GOALS

• Intentional date night once a month. PW and I have never been great about regular date nights. We have literally no excuse anymore because our kids are old enough to not need a babysitter, so what are we even doing?! This is our year. We talked about this on our flight home from Paris last week, and decided that we’re going to do 12 great date nights this year.
• Take one day off every week to focus on long term projects, or just do nothing. I’ve done this the last two years and it has been life changing for me, so I’m doing it again! As someone with their own business, there is always something that can be done and it’s easy to never be off the clock. The last two years I’ve been good about taking the day off, but not so good about working on long term projects. I’m going to do better about this one this year!
• Take B on a 16 year old trip. This year my oldest turns 16, and we’re starting a tradition of a mom-son trip when they turn 16. He gets to choose the place, and then he has to book the flights and hotel and car rental, and do all the transactions of meals and everything while we’re on the trip. I’ll be paying for it all, but he has to manage it. I think it’ll be great practice for adulting and dating! I’m so excited to see where he chooses to go.
• Intentional friday family movie night. We’ve been doing Friday movie night for years, but just this last year we’ve been working through movie series instead of random movies, and that has made it so much more fun. This year I want to be really intentional about the movies we watch as a family, showing my boys old classics, and watching the big movie series. We just finished all the Marvel movies and the Jurassic Park movies, so we have to figure out what’s next! Also my husband bought me an Ooni pizza oven for Christmas, so pizza/movie night is about to get upgraded!
• Read aloud to the boys every night possible. This has been our routine since the boys were tiny, but in the last year with our very busy schedules, we haven’t been so consistent, and we’ve struggled to find a book that we really love and want to read every night. But during December, we’ve been more consistent about it and it’s been such a joy to . My goal this year is to get back to consistency. Our first book of the year is THIS ONE.

BUSINESS GOALS

• Create a business mastermind group. I planned to do this last year but it never came to fruition. This year I’m going to make it happen!
• Work SMARTER, not HARDER. This has been my team’s mantra for the last few years, and I want to keep this momentum of being smart about our work. We sometimes get in a grind and forget this, and I’m determined to keep us on track this year, especially myself!

PERSONAL GOALS

• Have more fun with my closet. This goes along with my word of the year, “CREATIVE.” I want to be more creative with my clothes, my style, and my content around style. I can’t wait to share some of the ideas I have for 2026 on instagram!
• Make space for creativity. Creativity comes for me when I’m being creative or just quiet and away from the daily grind. My plan is for weekly outside walks (on my days off), painting again, reading more, listening to podcasts that help spark my creativity (more to come on this), playing the piano, and throwing creative parties.
• Stop saying that I’m busy. For years, I felt like saying that I was busy made me feel like I was productive. And I am busy, and productive. And while it’s not a metric I choose to use anymore to measure my success, I find myself still saying it. I really want to stop saying that!
• Take another season of ski lessons, just for fun! This one was one of my goals last year, and I did it! I’d never skied before, but I took 6 weeks of group lessons at our local ski resort and I loved it! I’m starting again this week and I can’t wait!

 

 

 

What are some of your goals for 2026? I’d love to hear!

 

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