#279: New Year Goals Recap
A Beautiful Mess Podcast
Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week we're recapping the goals we set for ourselves for 2025, what we accomplished, what we didn't and anything that we're keeping on the list for 2026. We're talking about what makes a good goal and our personal goal setting criteria. We're also sharing our weekly book report and beginning a new segment where we debate listeners hot takes at the end of every episode!
The goals we set in our 2025 NY Goal episode:
Emma:
Get a minivan - No
Ambitious food blogging list - Had to pivot in April
Pitch cookbook idea - Did pitch but not working on right now
Emma's romance (outline and write half) - Yes
Elsie:
Write every day - No
Query my novel - Yes
Write second novel - Started it
Launch art website and sell art - Did sell art but didn't make a website
One renovation to rule them all - Yes
Most proud to have accomplished in 2025:
Elsie - Got passports and taking first trip
Emma - Finishing her novel
Unforeseen project you spent a lot of time on in 2025:
Elsie - Rewriting her novel
Emma -Hugo
Accomplishment that wasn't on the list:
Elsie - Retraining for a new career
Emma - Celebrated 40th Birthday
Book Report:
Emma - Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
Elsie- The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen. |
| 0:08.0 | And this week, we are recapping the goals that we set for ourselves in 2025, what we |
| 0:12.7 | accomplish, what we didn't, and anything that we're keeping on the list for 2026. |
| 0:17.3 | We're talking about what makes a good goal and our personal goal setting criteria. |
| 0:21.5 | We're also sharing a weekly book report and beginning a new segment where we debate listeners hot takes at the end of every episode. |
| 0:28.6 | Yeah, you really came through with the hot takes. |
| 0:32.0 | I loved. It was my favorite email of the year. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, okay, tie with the ghost stories. |
| 0:36.9 | Yeah, this is right there with ghost stories. This is really up there. So we will ask for more and we will be doing more because we decided that instead of doing an episode, we're going to make it a segment and we're just going to kind of do it in every episode until you stop sending them. So because they're fun. And I think it just like, it makes us |
| 0:55.7 | happy. So we're excited. It kind of feels like we're talking to them, like with them, even though we're |
| 1:01.4 | not because they would be more fun. We're debating their causes. Yeah, yeah. So it's going to be fun. |
| 1:06.6 | Anyway, it's the best we can do. And I like that. Okay, so if you go back in the podcast time machine, |
| 1:14.1 | then you can listen to the episode where we say our 2025 New Year's goals, but we are just |
| 1:19.8 | going to recap them here for you and explain what we got done, what we did, and all of those things. |
| 1:26.3 | And for me, it was a pretty big pivot |
| 1:27.7 | year. It was a great, yeah. When I was reading yours, I was like, oh, that's, that's very interesting. |
| 1:32.4 | That's very interesting. Okay. So I will read you your goals that you set one at a time and then you just tell us how it went. |
| 1:40.7 | The first one is that you were considering getting a minivan. I am still planning to get the |
| 1:48.7 | minivan. But what happened this year was I got a new car battery. Subaru still runs fine. Yeah. I think |
| 1:56.3 | part of me is like, so getting a new car for me is like getting a new laptop where it makes me feel like |
| 2:02.4 | I have to learn a whole new thing. And I don't really like it. Like anytime I have to drive a rental |
| 2:07.0 | car, I'm always like, it's like I don't know how to drive a car anymore. And it's really, |
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