new years resolutions: 2026

[Rigel]

A new year, a new thread.

What new goals do you all have for 2026? What did you or didn't you accomplish in 2025? I'll start: I accomplished my goal of releasing anything. I successfully released something. That something being an MLP fanfic to moderate praise and a few hundred views, which I'm kinda proud of. The goal for this year is similar, but more involved. I want to finish my book and publish it to the world, and make some money off of it.

[Ad Bot]

[bloody jumper]

gonna lose another 10-20 pounds for sure, maybe i'll write something, i dunno i wanna do something meaningful with my life that's actually fufilling but i dunno where to start

[Trymos]

New years resolution for me: Sign a new lease (about to happen). Get a job in my new city/state. Embrace darkness. Make decision as to whether or not to return to school in 2027.

I got my associates in 2025, so that's pretty cool. I also got to spend months with my boyfriend, that's cool too. I'd say 2025 was a cool year. Not exciting, but cool.

[blockguy™]

my plan this year is to finish refurbishing the exterior of my garage, gotta knock some trees down, and i  also plan on getting a zero turn mower hopefully before spring hits, gonna sell my motorcycle, and then i will need to chillax on buying building materials and other stuff that isn't maintenance related (e.g. auto parts and lawn care) in an effort to pool some money up before the impending economic depression 

[Mr Queeba]

i graduated college last year and just landed full time. it is time to grind

[Metalliku]

without getting too much into detail, all i want and hope for is to talk more to people (old and new faces), draw more, and, most importantly, be happy again. i will make this year my bitch

[Dr.Block]

I actually succeeded at staying sober for most of 2025. It came back for the holidays but that's to be expected. forget Christmas. This year's resolution is to stop posting in the international headlines thread lmao.

[carolcat]

i've got a few for this year, trying to stay realistic:
1) go touch grass at least once a week (30min walk outdoors)
2) journal at least once a week
3) finish at least 1 book a month, either audiobook or reading
4) be more sincere

[Defendor]

go out to eat (resteraunts, fast food, etc.) only once a month. easy way to save a lot of money. just gotta rely on groceries and not just lazily avoiding making my own food.

[Metalliku]

also i forgot to mention to stop drinking those stupid ass monster energy drinks like good lord they leave like absolute stuff and give me diarrhea

[carolcat]

go out to eat (resteraunts, fast food, etc.) only once a month. easy way to save a lot of money. just gotta rely on groceries and not just lazily avoiding making my own food.

mealprepping is your friend. i've been doing it for years because god it loving sucks having to constantly 1) decide what to eat 2) cook it and i find i'm waaaay less likely to make bad food choices if i just prep everything for the week at the start of the week. on mealprep days where i'm feeling like a lazy forget i'll pick up a couple of those kevin's premade meal things from target or lidl or wherever im getting groceries and just put them over rice and stick them in the freezer/fridge (which is what i did this week with their coconut curry flavor). takes like 10 minutes tops and despite being premade food (and thus a little more expensive than cooking from scratch) they're honestly not that bad

[-Nal-]

Slow down. I had a cumulative $140k in medical procedures and testing done in the past two years. It's felt like one thing after another. I maxed out my deductible two years in a row

[log]

I can't believe it is already February, but I met my 2025 goal of paying off my consumer debt--I used the avalanche strategy on 57K of credit/auto/student debt over the course of 11 months and was able to get a small emergency fund together of 10K on top of it before the year ended.

I think the real delight-er of last year was that I won my first 1099 contract as a freelance software engineer, which was to transition a series of demo/test applications I developed in my early career into an open-source SDK to support the adaption of the standard behind the applications. I feel every engineer has a project or two that they always wished they could go back and get right, so this was a good chance to do just that.

Admittedly, my past two years I have focused heavily on career/finance goals, so I am in a weird place where I haven't really thought much about personal growth in a while. I've had time to think about it because it IS February, and I've settled on committing to a gym routine, and engaging in at least one type of activity that will allow me to meet new people naturally.

[Rigel]

Congrats, Log! Being debt-free is very nice, like shutting down some useless processes in your brain so you don't have to worry anymore. Less worries just makes thinking easier, I feel.

For my own goal, I haven't done that much more writing yet, only finished two chapters. However, I have adopted a "carrot and stick" strategy. I am a major chocoholic, and love love LOVE eating high-quality chocolates. I bought a big pack, and I have resolved to only treat myself to one on a day that I do some writing. That's the carrot. Any day I don't do any writing, I force myself to do an hour of exercise. That's the stick. So either I'll get my book finished soon or work off this gut I've been cultivating. The going's been rough though, I've been suuuuper sedentary after that seizure, and even a 3k walk around the block + some archery has my whole body feeling sore, and my post-seizure back pain flaring up again. But if I can't exercise, then I guess I have no choice but to write in order to feel SOME accomplishment.

Edit: Turns out the pain and fatigue might've been a precursor to me getting sick. 100.6 fever, can't get stuff done like this. Raaaaaagh.

[Foxscotch]

I broke my leg in november, as described in another thread. as of last week I have begun doing physical therapy to work back up to 100% weight-bearing, so with any luck I'll be walking in the next 2 or so weeks, but it'll probably be a couple more months for full recovery. so that is for sure the primary thing I care about improving in my life right now. I don't really have anything specific in mind for after this. I have made a long list of things I want to do with my partners once I'm able to walk normally again though, so I guess we could consider checking things off that list to be my new year's resolution