MY 2024 GOALS + goal ideas for stay at home moms

MY 2024 GOALS + goal ideas for moms

I DO NOT LOVE NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS!!
Goals however?! YES PLEASE!
I wanted my wedding anniversary to be 1/2 way through the year so we could review our goals 1/2 way through the year!
But I remember last year having a SUPER hard time coming up with my goals because Motherhood felt like it was taking over my life (because it was... by choice). And I wasn't sure what that meant for making money, for growing my biz, for a lot of things.
So this year I've realized these are not the years of rapid growth (for me) they are years of being present with my family. The years of growth will come and they will be great, but for the moment, these are my priorities.
If I maintain what I'm doing that will be major winning. If I can also "trim the fat" on what I'm doing that would be incredible.
So my 2024 WORD(s) for my goals are: Minimize and Simplify.

More clarity, more presence, more ENJOYING.

Please comment with what your word (AND WHY) is on this video so I can hear from you! If it's not clear, I love goals, and I love hearing other people's just as much!

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00:00 What is your goal word for 2024?
00:11 Hey Shayla Introduction
00:39 GOALS FOR 2024
01:52 MENTAL HEALTH IS EVERYTHING
02:21 Why I love therapy
03:25 Reflecting on your year/ life is crucial
03:38 WORD OF THE YEAR
05:02 Goals for Stay at Home Moms
05:20 The relationships in your life
06:05 Experiences with your kids
06:33 Monthly goals decided in the beginning of the year
06:53 SPEND LESS
07:14 Slow down
07:26 PROMOTION
07:37 MY 2022 WORD 🥵
08:32 MY 2023 word (that I forgot)
08:45 MY WORD(s) THIS YEAR!!!
08:55 MINIMIZE SPENDING
11:03 MINIMIZE BUSY WORK
11:21 MINIMIZE STUFF (decluttering)
11:53 What I DO spend my money on
12:07 Questions I'll ask myself when I want to buy
12:42 Simply and Minimize
12:54 What is your goal this year?

[mommybreakdown]

Twins 👯‍♀️
Two days ago I decided that I want to have indoor plants. Yesterday a friend was over and told me how she uses these globe things to water them and I HAD IT IN MY AMAZON CART IN .2 SECONDS 🤣. Well, I’m happy to report that I did not check out and I saved myself from spending $20+ unnecessary $$$.
We can do it. 🎉🎉
My phrase is “mindful spending.”

[coebysorensen]

My word for 2024 is abide. I want to make my home a place where God's spirit can abide. Make it clean and tidy and also be less frustrated with my kids and yell less😅. I also want to abide better myself by putting my phone away and removing distractions so that I can abide and be more present with my kids.

[hunterlabombard]

My word this year is peace. I want to find peace. Within myself, within my family, within my community. Last year was a complete whirlwind. I became a mother to our first child 2 months after I became a widow. The lowest of lows fallowed by the highest of highs and ALL of the firsts were bittersweet rather than just purely joyful as they should have been. So my goal is to find peace this year. Settle into life with my daughter and find a peaceful routine for the two of us 😊

[starringbecky]

Connection - to myself, to a higher power, to my kids and my husband, to my friends and family… all around. #1 is to myself because I feel like when I’m deeply connected to my true self it’s so much easier to connect externally!

[carolinejudith]

My word of the year is joy! I can be super restrictive, hard on myself, and full of shame when I don’t do things right. Instead, I want to focus on the things that bring me joy, even if they’re hard. Finding joy in taking care of my family, being outside, and everything I can. Making decisions that help me experience that joy instead of feeling ashamed of what I did or didn’t do.
I think it’s all about living in abundance and doing hard things with joy for me this year!

[p.c.pizzie]

I do not normally comment on YouTube videos, but this one is something that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. My word/mantra for 2024 is “live purposefully.”

I want to really be more present with friends and family and not feel like the days and months just passed me by. A bit of this comes from too much time on the phone, and not thinking critically about how they spend my days. I feel like as a stay at home mom and homemaker, it’s easy to just kind of sit in the sidelines of your own life sometimes.

A goal that I have for the year is to learn ASL. Something that I’ve wanted to do for years and only even more so once I started doing signs with baby.

[Alx_mckn]

Hey Shayla! I rarely comment but I loved this. My word(s) are “give grace”. I found myself criticizing my husband a lot. It was super demotivating for him, and now I see that. He responds so well to positivity and I had forgotten that when we had our baby. I’m already seeing that by being positive it’s having the exact effect that I wanted - he’s more present, more helpful, and more motivated to engage with me and the house. Love you Shayla!

[maddiecote]

Love your videos Shayla! My word is *enchanted* - tame my love affair with productivity and efficiency so I can connect more, be more flexible and whimsical like my younger self, and put myself in environments and situations where wonder happens more. Cheers to a great year! P.S. save more when I can’t make much more is an empowering idea!

[leahb]

Grace. It was also my word last year. I have 2 kids under 2 and it's stressful, both on me and my husband. Grace for us all.

[cinthiaham]

Growth!
Postpartum depression kicked my butt last year. I ran away from many relationships. Some friends stuck with me through it all. Some other couldn’t understand. I want to grow internally and love myself again. I love my two kids dearly. I want to grow in qualities that will help them feel loved by me: patience, kindness, self-control. I want to grow better habits. I have all those things outlined in my planner already!

[shenaniganswithshannon]

I’m four minutes into this video and I’m literally crying. It hits home so much and your content is SOOO relatable. I’m saving to watch and rewatch when I don’t have sweet little voices yelling “mommy” “mommy” from the Livingroom, and one crying from his bed, and the other waiting at the gym to be picked up from basketball practice. I need this! Thank you for bringing it, and for being real!!! I’m thinking I’m going to sign up for therapy sessions as well, and I know my husband will thank you later Shayla!!! Happy New year and I can’t wait to see your goals and dreams come to fruition!

[heidilash]

Relationship & Unity. I am a mom of 4 (so far) BUT I myself am an only child. I am really seeing a desire come up in me to intentionally teach my children how to listen to each other, to pay attention to what each other are feeling/needing & to encourage them to appreciate each other. This has been a HUGE realization this past year as my 3 year old and 1.5 year old have been interacting more, and because the 10 year old hasn't quite learned how to listen and respect the 3 year old as a full person with their own ideas. I really struggle with identifying with people and stepping into their needs to help them, so these two words help me focus in on wanting to build relationships AND to create unity: Not just hang out and talk with someone and then forget to text them/pray for them/reach out to help them later. In my family unit this is so important to me because I want my kids to be friends with their siblings for a long time and to excersize those relational muscles while they're in the home so it's a well developed skill as they get older and move out into the world.

[alyssaball]

Our word of the year is mindful. We like to keep it applicable to most things. Being more mindful of our relationships, what we purchase. Things like that

[shannonbrown]

My word of the year is "zest" with many of my goals being trying out new hobbies and recipes.

[ruhhshelle]

Our word this year is 'quality'. We spent most of 2023 having a baby and getting our finances where we wanted them. We didn't buy a lot of stuff. So this year, we have all the upgrades we want to make listed out on our budget (ex: buying half a cow to have meat in our freezer, farm eggs, a new Dutch Oven for me to cook in). We have the next 6 months planned out, and we are going to be super intentional with buying *quality* items. We also hate having loads of stuff.

[jude]

My word for 2024 is contentment. We had our first child in 2023, so I quit my full time job and moved into a PRN role. The change what huge and impacted me in a more negative way than I would have liked. This year, I want to slow down and stop trying to make everything perfect and be content with where I am and what I have. We are also looking for a house this year, which is a huge stressor in this market! I want to focus on being content with the homes that are within our purchase budget instead of yearning for bigger and better.

[borbalaalbert]

Word of the year IS A GAME CHANGER! Mine this year is Indulge… as I can be pretty miserable because I have to diet and work out and do housework and go to the park blah blah blah… this year I’ve decided I will indulge myself into these things or into rest and eat cake if that feels better in the moment.

[sparklesavior]

This is a great idea! My word is learning. I want to read more books as well as get my kids out of the house to learn a variety of different things. I need to learn better techniques for handling things like toddler tantrums but I also want to learn new skills like sourdough. I also really want to focus on putting my phone down and turning the tv off and just focus on teaching my boys whatever it is that they’re interested in.

[Sielleis]

Not sure yet about 2024,
But in 2023 my goal/mantra was a line from the book Going On A Bear Hunt: "We can't go over it, we can't go under it, uh oh, we have to go through it!" I had a really difficult pregnancy with hyperemesis and a lot of anxiety about whether the baby was okay, anxiety about having a repeat C-section, and then a bunch of postpartum complications and I constantly felt overwhelmed by trying to take care of my family when I felt like I couldn't get out of bed. It was hard but weirdly freeing to realize that I even when I doubted myself, I had to do hard things because I didn't have a choice, not doing them wasn't an option. Now I can look back and realize that I did all of them and we made it.

[irislikestosew]

My word for 2024 is Repair - do the work to make what I have even better. Notice damage/wear/imperfections in relationships, habits, clothes, vehicles, etc… and fix them up. Invest time and energy into good choices I have already made and do the work to follow through with those intentions. Look at what I need to do to heal my postpartum body. No giving up on treasures.