Are you feeling like you need some encouragement as you are looking ahead to 2026?

Do you love planning your year or maybe not so much?

Do you need a good look at the rhythms in your life that serve you,

bring you closer to the Lord, and ultimately help you carry out God's assignment for you?

This episode is for you.

Music for you? This episode is for you. You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 296. Much of our lives can be divided into two

categories, work and play. Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to

work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and fulfilling life. Let's get to it.

Okay, friend, this episode is my jam.

I love talking about this.

I have been goal setting for decades, almost decades.

Am I allowed to say that?

Am I that old?

I feel like, yeah, I probably am.

I mean, at least one decade I've been solidly setting goals and looking at my rhythms

every single year before the year begins. So this episode is really about how that's changed for me.

However, the last, really, the last decade, yeah, I would say, okay, like zooming out,

the first decade of goal setting for me was college and running my business and I didn't have kids.

The last decade has been with kids and not just, you know, learning to be a mom with one kid,

but then adding two, three, four, five kids.

And every single time you become a mom again, it's like you have to reassess life.

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