Reflecting on my year of 2025 and how I want things to change in 2026. What are some things you want to change?
I know that I’m a little late with this post on my 2025 reflections, but I figured it was better late than never. I’m not sure if many of you do yearly reflections, and typically, I don’t either. 2025 is the year that I’m doing a reflection for. I’m kind of wanting things to change a little bit for 2026. I feel like a lot has happened in 2025, and I’m unsure whether that’s a good thing or not.
But when my husband and I were decluttering the house before the new year, I was going through some of my journals. I have been journaling since 2022, and I have realized that I have literally been complaining about the same things. I keep saying that I want to change things, but I’ve been in a loop for the past 5 years. This is kind of why I want to start doing reflections and why I’m doing my 2025 yearly reflections. Hopefully, this will give me the kick in the butt that I need.
2025 wasn’t any different. Looking through my journal for the year, I’ve realized that I’m yet again complaining about the same things. I’m getting aggravated about money and feeling like I have no friends. But I’m slowly starting to realize that I complain about these things, but I’m not really doing anything about them. At least not really.
I feel like I’m in a never-ending loop, and apparently, I would rather complain about it rather than actually do anything about it. I know I’m not the only one who has probably been in this rut for a while now.
How I am hoping to change in 2026
There are a lot of things that I want to change this year. I want to take things slower and take everything in. I feel like I’m doing all of the things. It’s making me overextend myself, and I want it to stop. I want to take things slower for my sake and for the sake of my kids.
From here on out, I want to try to stay off social media. I get way too invested in other people’s lives, and then I get upset that everyone can do tons of fun things while I feel like I’m stuck at home. Why am I stuck at home? Because everything here costs money to do. At least a lot of the fun things do. Parks have kind of lost their fun here because we have gone to them so much, and they have kind of lost their magic.
I know magic is in the eye of the beholder, but over the past few years, I’ve grown to be a little pessimistic. Growing up, I was never this way, so I don’t know what exactly has changed over the years.
No more negativity in my life. It’s time to get in the right mindset and change our lives. By our I mean my family, and by changing our lives, I mean that I want to start earning an income so we aren’t necessarily worried about money anymore. I’ve had enough of it, but I also don’t want to go back to retail. At this point in my life, I can’t have your stereotypical 9 – 5 job because I homeschool my older kid, and I also have a younger kid that I would have to put into daycare, and I don’t want to do that.
I would love to try to travel more as well. We don’t get to go on vacation that much because of money, obviously, but I would love for that to change.
Conclusion to my 2025 reflections
2025 was the year of complaining and moping around. A lot was going on with our family and our kids, so I kind of found myself in a bit of a funk for most of last year. Now I want this year to change quite a bit. I want to be more involved with my family because I feel like we have a tendency to just go off and do our own thing, and I don’t like that.
It’s time to make sure that I’m able to slow down and take everything in because the past few years have flown by so much. I don’t necessarily remember a whole lot about the few years either. At this point, I don’t want to continue rushing my life and just letting it pass me by. Who is with me on making 2026 a better year?
I’m tired of burying my head in the sand. I’m not trying to make things better for me and for our family and for me. How am I going to change this? I’m going to journal more, try to change my mindset, and start earning an income. Who is with me?
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