Reviewing 2025 Goals + Goals for 2026

The New Year has arrived, and, as always, it prompts me to glance at the goals I made for the previous year, evaluate how they went, and make new goes that I hope to meet, though I likely will fall short (again).

Without further ado, let’s examine the goals of the year gone by.

• Start missions’ classes in college✅

Praise God! I started the first semester of school in the fall online at Faith Baptist Bible College (even though I’m not Baptist, lol). I’ve learned so much already, and am so thankful for the opportunity to study.

• Go on a short-term missions❌

Welp. I thought about this. I looked at various trips. I prayed about this. But, in the end, the year was so busy with a move, various family trips, school, and church that I didn’t end up going on a missions trip.

• Buy a car❌

Earlier this year, Daddy and I spent a long time looking at various used cars. However, they were all insanely expensive, and once I realized just how much college would cost, I decided that a car was not as necessary as I used to think it was.

• Get a job and save money for school ✅

I’ve enjoyed working with Daddy, and saving much of the money to pay dreadful school fees.

• Three weeks devoted to seeking God in concentrated Bible reading and prayer ✅

Every year, I like to take three weeks to take a break from the busyness of life, the cares of the world, and try to focus on God and what He has to teach me. The 2025 weeks were very sweet, though busier than I hoped. I grew a lot in my faith, and also learned that fear is something that can be conquered – even though that process is very unpleasant.

• Spring100 (1,000-mile goal)❌

I was tired.

• Read War and Peace (Tolstoy), Resurrection (Tolstoy), Les Misérables (Hugo), and The Man in the Iron Mask (Dumas) ❓

I overestimated the time that I would have to devote myself to the reading of long classics. Once school started, I realized that most of my free time was used up in eating meals and going to various church activities.

However, I was able to read Resurrection early 2025. I’m not sure what to think about the story. I absolutely loved the first half, then there was a change from prose to something of a political essay loosely wrapped in story. Even so, the characters were amazing, deep, and thought-provoking, as is always the case with Tolstoy.

I’ve really enjoyed buddy-reading Les Misérables with my friend, Casey. (Be sure to check out her blog here!) Les Mis is a masterpiece. *weeps* We’re not quite finished, but we’re getting close. Every page brings new emotions, new beauty, and new insights into God, human character, and life.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

I didn’t get to War and Peace or The Man in the Iron Mask. In my defense, I started The d’Artagnan Romances (to which The Man in the Iron Mask belongs), but I didn’t realize just how long the series is. It is estimated (depending on translation) that the whole series is 1.5 million words. I read the first two-and-a-half books of the saga in 2025, and will likely finish the series this year. Wish me luck!

• Start a travel blog❌

I have enough trouble keeping up with one blog!

• Sell my glider joeys✅

Yep. My gliders didn’t have as many joeys as I hoped, and I had much more trouble selling them than I thought I would, but I’m thankful that God gave them all good homes.

• Lose weight✅

I lost a bunch of weight at the beginning of the year! …and then gained it all back immediately. *sighs*

• Do NaNoWriMo❌

Seeing that NaNoWriMo no longer exists…*weeps*

• Attend a self-defense class❌

I completely forgot about this goal…

• Attend the March for Life in Atlanta✅

We were able to be a part of the Atlanta March for Life. It was very powerful to be around so many people who were standing up for the lives of the unborn.

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”
~Mother Teresa

• Read the whole Bible✅

Yep!

• Study Biblical Hebrew or Greek✅

Eh. Sort of? I was hoping to be able to study Biblical Hebrew, but – again – I got rather busy and didn’t devote as much time to it as I should have. However, I was recently looking through a list of frequent Bible vocab words, and I was surprised that I knew significantly more than I thought.

• Make a quilt❓

I started a quilt. Does that count?

• Study American history in depth✅

I believe that I gained more knowledge about American history – especially about the Civil War. It was good, as I feel woefully uneducated about what has happened in my country.

• Get to know people in our community and invite them over to our house❓

Sort of? We moved to Florida in August, and our neighbors have been amazing. They’re all so sweet and friendly and very welcoming. We’re cultivating relationships with them. Due to our house being in a state of…remodeling…we haven’t had any of our neighbors over yet. But hopefully soon!

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What about 2026? What grand goals will I set forth, and then forget to accomplish? I spent a while thinking about what I want 2026 to look like, and I tried to set more realistic goals as opposed to other years.

• Get A’s on all my college classes
• Serve twenty times at church
• Stick to a strict monthly budget & continue to save for college
• Continue to study Biblical Hebrew (*sighs*)
• Read War and Peace (maybe this year??)
• Read more books by the Puritans
• Read the whole Bible
• Read 90 books
• Attend a March for Life event
• Memorize 1^st Peter, 2^nd John, and 3^rd John
• Write fiction again
• Post regularly on the blog

What goals do you have for 2026? How’d you do on your 2025 goals? Let’s chat below! 😉

~Hattush