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2025 Goals

I am all about goals. I love looking at how far I have come, as well as planning for how to make myself (and my life) better in the future. I have always fought against calling any of my goals "New Years Resolutions" because I believe that those have been goals that are broken and forgotten about too easily. I also am a teacher, so I get the opportunity to reflect on each school year in the summer and set new goals for the coming school year then. It is a bonus reflection time to help me see if my goals are still on track, and to focus perhaps on a different area in my life than I did when I made my goals at the beginning of the linear year.

One thing that I have learned to be VITAL when making & following goals is to be easy on myself. Not in goal setting- I think it is important to reach for the stars when ti comes to making the goals. But it is important to show yourself grace if you are in a season of struggling or if you had a bad day and did not meet yourself where you wanted to be. Another piece of the pule is that consistency (even if it is not 100%) is better than quitting on the days that you know you cannot give your all.

I hope that my 2025 shows me living this out. Obviously, I hope to meet all of the SMART goals I set for myself, and to at least grown in these areas if I do not reach my goals. But I want to continually show myself grace & pick myself back up when I am not succeeding. And I encourage you to do the same. 

Show yourself grace for 2025.

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