2026 Future You Project: Revisiting Your New Years Resolutions

So we are officially a little bit more than through the halfway point of the year, and this is the time where I think it's really, really important to revisit the goals that we set for ourselves in January.

Because otherwise, you know, you get to December, and you're reviewing your goals, and you're like, "What the hell happened? I didn't actually end up achieving anything that I really wanted to." And that's because just like with any kind of goal that you set, whether it's like a small one that you set at work or a big one that you set at work or whatever it is, it's really important to do frequent check-ins to ensure that you're making progress.

And so I know that when it comes to the goals that we set in the new year, s- sometimes we just forget what we set for ourselves, or maybe it was like a lengthier list.

And so I wanna give you the framework that I like to use around this time of year in hopes that it'll help you kind of evaluate where you're at, what you need to cut, you know, and just kind of h- get real with yourself.

So what I like to do is block out time to review all of my goals.

So what were the goals that you set? What have you been doing and not doing? So it's important to look at the goals that you have made progress towards and which ones you haven't made progress towards.

Now, the ones that you've made progress towards, good.

Clearly they're a priority.

Good job.

You know, keep going, and hopefully you've already accomplished some of them.

You never know, right? But I actually wanna focus on the ones that you haven't really gotten to yet because I think it's really important that we go in and we get honest about why it is that we haven't made progress towards a specific goal.

Is it because it's not aligned anymore? And honestly, if that is the case, that is completely fine.

It's actually good to get clear about the fact that a goal may not be aligned anymore because something that you maybe set out to do at the beginning of the year, maybe you don't wanna...

Or it's, it's just like not a priority anymore, that, you know, maybe you told yourself you were gonna learn a language at the beginning of the year, and you've just been more all in on other goals of yours.

So I think that that's number one, where, you know, if you feel like you've been making good progress towards your other, more important goals, some of them, it's okay to kind of cut them.

It could also be that your priorities changed.

You shifted as a human being.

Your values changed.

Like, whatever it was, there was just, like, significant changes so that, you know, the, the goal that you set for yourself or a couple of the goals that maybe you set for yourself at the beginning of the year are no longer relevant.

So I just want...

Like, the reason I'm spending so much time talking about this portion of things is because I don't think you should ever feel guilty about feeling like a goal isn't aligned for you anymore.

I think it's really important that we just get honest about why that is.

The other thing is that, you know, if you've not achieved a goal or you've not started to work towards a goal that still feels aligned to you, it could be that you have not made a priority out of it or that you haven't actually placed, uh, uh, haven't actually built systems in order to start to achieve an aligned goal.

So th- this is a separate conversation from when a goal doesn't feel aligned.

This is just, hey, this goal still feels aligned, but actually I haven't made any progress and I've just not made it a priority.