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2026 Goals & Resolutions

Posted by Jessi (Geo) on January 10, 2026 | 0 Comments

Looking back at last year’s resolutions

Here’s my post from last year!

Reading/blogging resolutions

Hit at least 100 books again. Welp, I didn’t do that. I ended up having to lower my Goodreads challenge goal to 50, and I ended the year at 55 books.
Branch out and read different genres. I was shit at this, lol. Almost everything I read was some branch of SFF.
Hit 100% ratio on both Netgalley and Edelweiss. I went higher on NG again, oops. I started the year with 7 on NG and 5 on EW. I now have 9 on NG (to be fair, I’ve read 5 of them and just need to review them) and still have 5 on EW. Ugh.
Only accept review books if I’m ready to read them immediately. I did pretty good with this because I rarely get requests from publishers these days.
Catch up on reviews. I wanted to get in the habit of reviewing books as soon as I finish, and I definitely did not do that. I reviewed a few that I had strong feelings for, but that was it. I don’t even want to know how many reviews behind I am now.
Blog more consistently. I say this every year, but this year was exceptionally bad because I posted like 5 whole posts. Jesus.

1/6. Yikes.

Lifestyle resolutions

Actually get my shit back together. Focus on myself for a while. GET DIVORCED! I did finally get divorced in January, yay!! I am SO happy to have moved on from that chapter of my life. I don’t know about getting my shit together, though. But I did find contentment in being on my own!
Get back in shape. Get back to where I was in health and fitness and get my foundation back. This was hit or miss. I did poorly early in the year, but started doing better in the last half. I was religiously tracking meals on MyFitnessPal and maintaining a calorie deficit for a few months. I even lost 7 lbs. Unfortunately, the depression of the holiday season stole that momentum and made me gain those pounds right back. I still haven’t been lifting.
Get back to healthy habits. Didn’t do super great at this, either. Still spent too much time on social media, went to bed too late and had trouble getting up in the mornings, and was overall pretty lazy.
Get my savings account back to what it was. I did pretty well on this one! It could be higher, but I’m happy to have a decent savings. Hopefully taxes in April don’t take that away.
Stay debt free (credit card wise). I did pretty great on this one, too! I still owe a little bit on the TV and PS5, but it’s almost paid off. I use my main credit card regularly, but I’m great about paying it off every month. It only got a little too high once, after vacation, and I’ve paid it off again! I’m so proud of myself for maintaining control over my debt.
Replace the sliding door and windows. Welp. This didn’t happen….again.
GET BRACES! Jesus Christ, I suck.
Clean out the big shed. ….guess what? Lol. “One day” is apparently my mantra now.

Wow, 2.75/8. I suck, but it’s .75 higher than last year, lmao.

Every year I hope it will be my year. It’s getting really depressing to post these.

2026 Goals & Resolutions

Reading/blogging resolutions

Hit 75 books. I’d love to get to 100 again, but I’m going to be more realistic with my goals this year so I don’t hate myself when I make this post next year.
Read one non-SFF book every month. Or the average of one a month, anyway. So 12 total.
Clean out old NetGalley and Edelweiss reviews. Hit 100% on NetGalley. I have a couple books I’ve read, several I’ve DNFed, and a couple that I will not read. I need to get these books off of my accounts! I doubt I’ll get to 100% on EW, but I want to at least get 1-2 off of there. I think 100% on NG is doable, though, because other than the ones I’ve mentioned, there’s only one older book I haven’t read and one new one that I just added.
Only request/accept review books if I’m ready to read them immediately. Review them and send/post the review as soon as I finish them.
Review books I read as soon as I finish. I desperately want to do better with this in 2026. My memory sucks and there were so many books I read and didn’t review that I remember nothing about.
Try to catch up on some reviews. I doubt I’ll ever fully catch up, but I’d like to at least review a few of them from the past couple of years.
Post on the blog more than 3 times, lol. At this point I’ve given up on my desire to blog consistently – it’s never going to happen. But I would like to at least post a little bit from time to time, instead of not at all.

Lifestyle resolutions

Give myself grace. Learn to love myself again. I have absolutely sucked at life for the last couple of years, but I’m also realizing that I need to be more gentle with myself. It’s been really fucking hard since my parents died and then going through the divorce; and while I’m learning to live in this new life on my own, I miss having someone to lean on. I did find contentment this year being on my own, and I’m usually fine being alone, but these last couple of months (going through the holidays, namely) the loneliness was soul crushing. All I ever wanted was to find my person, but I really want to go back to focusing on myself and what I do have, and not worrying about what I don’t (or can’t) have. It’s just making me miserable.
Find a routine. Limit social media. I really want to get back to waking up early and going to bed on time. Stop doomscrolling social media until late at night. Stop hitting snooze on the alarm until I HAVE to get up. Get up early enough in the mornings to get on the treadmill.
Start lifting again. I don’t know if I’ll ever get back to how much I used to do it, but I at least want to lift 3x a week. I hate how weak I’ve become.
Cook more. I actually really miss cooking and trying new recipes. I’ve been pretty lazy this past year and doing a lot of easy toss-in-the-oven stuff and microwave stuff. I’d love to meal prep more often, too.
Focus more on hobbies. I kinda lost my hobbies the past couple of years. I did do a decent amount of cross stitching this year, but other than that, I haven’t been doing any of my hobbies. I’ve barely even been reading – I actually read zero books in November, which hasn’t happened since October of 2017. Ope.
Get to $15k in savings.
Do something on the house. I’d really like for this something to be the sliding door, but I also want to remodel the den. I just want to do at least one thing to improve the house.
Find an orthodontist and make an appointment for a consultation. Take the first steps to get braces. Even if I don’t officially get them in 2026, I want to at least start the journey to get there.
Start on organizing the big shed. Even if I don’t finish it, I at least want to clear out a little bit of it.
Journal. I used to do this all the time and I haven’t done it since my parents died. I have the worst memory ever and I’d like to keep track of major events in my life, how I’m feeling, and progress I’ve made. I would also really like to make a gratitude jar kinda thing where I write down the really good things that happen to me and put them in a jar, so I can go through and read them at the end of the year.