I was inspired to start thinking about 2026 goals while reading Sarah’s book which I finished in 2 days! I love her method, her writing style, and felt inspired to make 2026 the year I do real planning a la SHU! 🙂
Word for the year: CONNECTION. Connect with my self, connect with my husband, connect with my friends (old and new). 2025 was a year of transition and relationship management took a back seat. I am committed to prioritize relationships in 2026. Connection with myself means I will continue to work on being mindful.
Taking the goal to one level lower at the 4 areas of life.
Personal: savor the moments. Reflect, focus, no rush, be gentle with myself and loved ones.
Family: connection through shared experiences.
Couple: scheduled activities to create space for communication, connection, and appreciation.
Social: regular check-ins, meet up.
Lastly activities to support these higher level goals.
Personal:
- get back to marathon training.
- run 2 races in Brasilia with colleagues
- regular movement: yoga, stretching, swim, golf
- reflect through scheduled planning
- track symptoms – HRT
- be consistent with supplement
- schedule should less day
- maintain good nails (inspired by Sarah’s goal list episode)
- get new outfits, work and fun
Couple:
- scheduled swimming and golf sessions, weekly
- lunch out once a month
- movies together, at least once every quarter
- try new spa in Brasilia
Family:
- evening walks and biking with the girls
- swim competition trips
- Mafalda reading
- organized play dates & meet up with old friends
- try pottery
- try indoor climbing
- cook 1 cookbook
- make year book 2025
- go to concert
- make short trips near brasilia
- call mom every week
Social:
- host once a quarter
- scheduled check in every Friday (old friends, colleagues, relatives. I prepared a list of people I want to keep in touch so will go through the list to call/text them every Friday in a rolling basis)
- monthly chat with BFFs
- birthday greetings to friends/relatives
- plan meet up
I am sure I’ll add more to these in coming weeks. I am super excited to go through them every month to complete them.
Sofia just got a new planner in Buenos Aires, her first planner and in Spanish! she’s in love with it as the set up is super cute and has guiding prompts. I also got a planner because it’s sooo cute. Now my planning stack will have 3 pieces: the hobonichi where I will track to-do lists, long term trips planning, favorites of the month. The happpimess planner where I write few lines of my day, have a tracker, and has embedded goal set up per month, and monthly calendar. Finally, a slim notebook where I write down ideas. They are all visually pleasants and I love writing on them.
We are having a blast in Buenos Aires, will do a recap soon.
Happy new year to everyone.
Our New Journey 
“Connection” is such a perfect word to tie everything together: with yourself, your family, your couple life, and friends.
I like how you break it down into concrete actions, from evening walks and swim trips to planners and tracking. Planning like this makes it doable, not just aspirational.
Can’t wait to see read your Buenos Aires recap!
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Loved reading your goals and your word of the year really resonanted. A number of my goals are similar: connection with my boys, having people over more often even if my house/meals aren’t instagram worthy.
Also that planner at the end is so adorable! Hope you have a wonderful 2026 Coco 🙂
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Connection was my word for 2022 and I loved it. I tracked who I would connect with each month in my planner. It was my first year off social media so I wanted to be intentional about connecting with others.
I love reading others’ goals! I love seeing a shouldless day on the list! I have one next week on Wednesday! I will share my 25 in ‘26 list next week and one goal is 4 shouldless days.
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These are all such great goals, and I love the word Connection! Happy New Year!
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Connection is a great word, and I love the concrete goals. I struggle with this, myself, but perhaps I should try to live this way a bit more.
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That Happimess planner is so cute! And- great word. I love how you broke it down into categories with specific goals in each category. You’re setting yourself up for success!
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YESSS to the Happimess planner! It is adorable. I love all of the points of connection!!! And I love the little slim Hobonichi notebook you are using! I used to have one and I think I filled it!!!
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Connection is a great word! And I love your new planner. For me personally, a pretty planer is so motivational 🙂
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