Introduction
This is my first time post in Weekend Experiences community. Today I would like to share my personal goals for 2026 and what I am going to do to reach them and to more fully realize my full potential.
My Top Three Goals For 2026
- Work on becoming a better husband and father
- Improve my health and fitness and drop twenty pounds by 2027
- Improve our family finances
Images in this post
All images in this post are from our recent weekend trip to Altura restaurant in Seattle. My wife gave me this as a Christmas gift.
This was a very nice appetizers plus nine course dinner at one of the finest Seattle restaurants. I might publish a separate post in the future about this experience to give it justice.
Becoming a better husband and father
I think I am already a very good father and husband, but we are all human and we all have our weaknesses. One of my personality traits is that I tend to take many things personally and combined with another personality trait of having a quick hot temper this makes for an explosive combination.
This trait combination sometimes leads to unnecessary conflict in our family. My wife is a very strong personality and she is also a very type A personality, which means that she always has a list of things to be done and she wants them done yesterday.
On a recent occasion we talked on the phone and I told her that I am going to get one of her items from her list done before she is home. There was a confusion about which item that will be so when she arrived home she noticed that the item she thought was going to be done was not done.
She simply asked a question, but the way it was said tripped up my two trait combination which led to unnecessary conflict in front of our daughter. We had a lengthy conversation about all of it and my wife came up with a really good suggestion.
Instead of taking it personally and escalating I should simply pause, and approach the situation with humor and say something like: "Honey I have done something else and we have plenty of time for getting the other item done and it will be done on ..."
This is basically a universal formula for these kind of situations and while I have not had a chance to apply it yet as we generally have a very peaceful relationship I think it is going to help with a majority of the situations where I tend to get defensive.
Improve my health and fitness
While I mostly eat healthy and try to get ten thousand steps daily and three weight lifting workouts per week my weight has been steadily creeping up over the years. It first started after the age forty five. In the last five years it crept up from two hundred pounds to two hundred twenty one pounds this week.
First thing that I am going to do differently is to try to reduce my portions and eliminate snacks between meals. The second diet related item that I am going to tackle is going to be the hardest one: my sugar intake. I love sweets and that is my biggest vice!
Third action item is to add a daily quick ten to fifteen minutes calisthenics style workouts. I am thinking of doing those mid morning to get my metabolism up and running.
The goal is to get to two hundred ten pounds by March when we are going to go to Maui for a vacation. At that point I am going to evaluate my progress and assess what is working and what is not working.
Improve our family finances
While 2025 was a great year for us financially as we eliminated a four thousand monthly mortgage payment and I got a promotion. Which allowed me to fully cover our monthly expenses still re-juggling of properties resulted in some borrowing from our joint account and some of my wife's savings.
My goal is to return those loans at least partially in 2026. I am slowly returning them from my salary but there is also around forty thousand that is stuck in 6% bonds that are under water. If Federal Reserve cuts rates this year and bond yields drop I will be able to free up those funds and it will be a great contribution to eliminate the debt.
Another action item is to get our island house ready for some short term rentals this coming summer. Income from that is going to be helpful as well.
Conclusion
With my three goals set for the year and a list of action items to achieve them clearly defined I think it is looking pretty good for 2026.
