My personal + work goals for 2025!

Here’s my confession: I threw all of my own rules for goal-setting out the window this year.

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Typically I stick very closely to our two-goals-a-month system. But this year, I basically accomplished ZERO goals from August to December, because I was in such a funk. I really just needed that time to decompress and figure out what I actually wanted to do with my time and energy now that the kids were in school and my schedule looked totally different than it had for the last 4 years.

Having worked through that (it only took me 5 months! 🤣), I’m feeling really refreshed and excited about some new things this year. And so, my 2025 goals are plentiful, with absolutely no semblance of order to them whatsoever. I hope you enjoy reading through them, and find a little freedom in setting your own!

PERSONAL GOALS

Word of the Year: HEALTHY My personal focus for this year is healthy habits in the main areas of wellness, faith, and finances. My personal health really has to take priority (I’ve neglected it or put it on the back burner for a really long time), so you’ll see most of the goals are focused on that. 

Project Goals:

• Read 52 book // Reading is a FUN goal for me, and I’m working toward one book a week this year. I am already behind. 🤣

Habit Goals:

• Read or listen to the Bible daily // I’m currently reading through the Chronological Bible with Jon, which we are really enjoying each night!
• Exercise daily // 15 min strength training + a certain # of steps, increasing throughout the year. I’m starting with 5000. Yes I know that’s basically nothing. But some days I wasn’t even getting that, so this has been a good starting point!
• Track food in My Fitness Pal daily // Please note this does not say “stay under my calories”. I’ll get there, but for now I’m just getting in the habit of tracking my food each day to be aware of what I’m eating.
• Create a healthy meal planning template for our family (weekly/monthly) // This is actually the topic of our coaching call next month, so I plan on working on this mainly in February. I’m tired of meal planning over and over again every month, so I want to create a healthy meal template for the entire year that I can reuse with just a few tweaks each year. Woot!
• Balance our budget weekly // I’m using Fridays as “Finance Fridays” to stay on top of both our family budget and my work budget. Numbers are hard for me, so this is a challenge, but we really are working toward healthy finances this year. 

WORK GOALS (for Anchored Women)

Words of the Year: OPTIMIZE + SYSTEMIZE Let me just say this: We have a lot of work to do on the back-end of our business. For the last few years – while juggling work and homeschooling and homemaking etc. – we have really just tried to serve you well and do as much as we could in the little time we had as a team. What that meant behind the scenes is that our own systems and processes have taken a major hit – there simply wasn’t enough time to work on those, too. So. This is the year to examine everything, make it better, and really solidify functional, updated systems!

Project Goals:

• Clean up our email system // I’ve been blogging since 2011, so at this point we have a TON email series that are outdated and no longer functional – but they are still live and accessible. I can’t tell you how many emails I get each week asking a question about something that was from 6 years ago. 🤦🏼‍♀️ This year is for cleaning all of that up so that every link you click on actually takes you somewhere meaningful.
• Redesign the website // I want to simplify our website in a big way, and make it so much easier for you guys to find what you’re looking for. 
• Update all blog posts // This is a huge project, I’m not gonna lie. We need to go into every single blog post and make sure all the links work, that the photos are updated, and that each one is optimized for all the networks. This feels daunting to me, but I know it will be AMAZING once it’s done!
• Create spreadsheets for tracking data // Isn’t this what real businesses do? 🤣 But seriously, there are a lot of things I’d like us to know that we don’t at this point. Which blog posts are the most popular? Which products do you guys love the best? Where on earth is our traffic coming from? Which social media outlets are actually worth our time?

Habit Goals:

• Write 2 days a week // I did almost no writing last year, and I felt that in an awful way. I’m taking a few hours a couple times a week to start writing again, without direction or “strategy”, just whatever is on my heart to share with you!

And there you have it! Still in the project + habit goal categories, but completely lopsided and haphazard. (Heavy on the habits in my personal life, heavy on the projects in our work life!) And I actually really love that right now. 

I hope that sharing these goals with you does two things: 

1. I hope it goes to show that even though I’ve CREATED a system I really believe works, sometimes even I have to bend the “rules”. Which is totally fine. I always want to encourage you to set systems and create routines that work best FOR YOU, in your particular season, and feel free to change them up when they aren’t working anymore. There are no goal-setting police. Do what you NEED.
2. I also hope that you found something here to encourage and inspire you as you set your own goals. Keep in mind it is January 14th and I’m just finalizing my goals. (January is Prep Month, remember?!) Take your time, make them your own, and let yourself set goals that are actually fun and exciting, rather than just things you think you “should” be doing.

Happy goal-setting to you and yours! Tell us in the comments below >> what are YOUR goals for 2025? I can’t wait to hear them!