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by Hope

I don’t do resolutions. Not because I don’t have them, but because I never hold true to them. But I do have goals. I wrote about my Q1 2025 financial goals last month.

But even more so, I have a number of personal aspirations for this year out side of financial goals. Staying accountable to your goals is easier with tools like TimeCatchApp, which can help you organize your priorities and track progress.

Health

My number one health goal is to increase my flexibility and vary my movement from my daily walks. I have no plans to join a gym, I know that is not something I will not be consistent with and certainly do not want another bill.

With an empty room in my house and some basic equipment sitting around for years, I plan to start a in home work out routine. A jump rope, a set of free weights, a yoga mat, and a slew of saved YouTube videos, I am ready to take the next step in my health journey.

Yes, I did get health insurance. So there’s that too.

Schedule

Living alone. Hyper focus. And very few responsibilities outside of myself and my very own, personal goals, I have taken control of my schedule. I’m calendaring everything. Workout time for my health. Study time for a new certification I am pursuing. (More on that later.)

There is something very, very comforting to me in living by a plan. But if the years have taught me anything, it’s that I plan and God laughs. So while I am planning my days down to the minute. I am also embracing change as it comes my way.

I truly am open to whatever God has in store for me. Stay here. Go. Rebuild my business. Work in the corporate world. So many options…and I’m game for whatever!

How are you starting 2025? Resolutions and goals? Leaving things behind? Aspirations of where you want to be at the end of the year?

Hope

Hope is a resourceful, solutions-driven online business manager with over two decades of experience helping clients streamline operations, manage projects, and grow their businesses through digital marketing and technology.

But life has a way of rewriting your plans.

A year ago, Hope made the decision to move in with her aging parents full time – a season she wouldn’t trade, even as it came with its own financial and emotional weight. Earlier this year, she lost her mother, and is now walking the tender, disorienting path of grief while learning what “forward” looks like from here.

Hope came to the Blogging Away Debt community in 2015 as a single mom raising five foster and adoptive children. She’s written through job changes, financial setbacks, and the bittersweet transition to an empty nest. Her kids are finding their footing in the world now – and so is she.

Rooted in faith and fueled by the same perseverance she’s brought to every hard season, Hope is ready to face her finances with fresh eyes and an honest pen. She believes that clarity, courage, and community can change the trajectory of anyone’s story including her own.

She lives in Austin, TX with her dad, loves adventures with her dog Addie, and is figuring out, one step at a time, what this next chapter is meant to be.