Challenges
2026 Goals: Routines
For me, goal-setting is a big thing each year in December. I take my time to brainstorm what I want my future to look like. Then I write down the steps I have to take to get there and finally decide what should make it onto my goals list for the upcoming year. For 2026, it turned out that I have a theme: Routines.
I want to implement certain daily and weekly routines – six daily and two weekly, to be more precise. Although I want to implement them all in the end, I have toned things down for now to make them more achievable. My current focus is on daily gymnastics and learning Russian consistently. Another goal is to take a picture each day and write this weekly mini-blog. When I say “focus”, I mean this is what I have planned. Whether I manage to implement it is a completely different matter, with different challenges for each goal.
Current Challenges
Taking a picture each day seems like the easiest task, yet I have never felt the need to take snapshots of everything. Still, this routine
is turning into a quiet record of my habits. In winter, the repetition of my pictures shows how rarely I go out. And that is my current challenge: there are only so many pictures one can take in an apartment.
As for my morning gymnastics, I love them once I have started – getting started is the challenge.
The biggest challenge, however, is learning Russian consistently. I really want to speak Russian, but I have never been someone who
enjoys the early phase of learning a language. I have to go over the basics again and again, and I am not a natural vocabulary-learning wizard. It is a pain.
Which brings me to the easiest one on the routine list: writing this mini-blog, which I enjoy more and more each week.
Do you set goals? And if so, what are your challenges?
Author
Britta
I have been an au pair, a tourist, an explorer, and a nomad – looking for nice places to visit and the one place I want to stay forever.