As 2025 drew to a close, I found myself reflecting on a year of tremendous expansion. I launched new programs, deepened my coaching practice, explored new places, and built a business that felt genuinely sustainable. But alongside this growth came important lessons about boundaries, presence, and the difference between productive momentum and perpetual busyness.

With these insights fresh, I greeted 2026 with a clear intention: to cultivate abundance and ease. I identified five core areas to anchor my vision: physical wellness, personal growth, money, work boundaries, and fun. I spent intentional time crafting goals that would allow my business to flourish without sacrificing my wellbeing, and my personal life to feel purposeful beyond my professional success.

This annual ritual has consistently shaped my trajectory. I’m sharing my process and goals with the hope of inspiring you to find alignment as you step into the new year too.

Below, you can read my 2025 reflections and my vision for the year to come. If you want to go through this process on your own, you can start with the clean template here.

2025 Reflections

1. What did you love about 2025?

• It was a tremendous year of growth for Harlow. We launched, tested, iterated, and found a number of revenue channels that resonated with our audience — really promising long-term opportunities.
• I ventured out on my own in the consulting world. (I’d previously been doing co-projects as a boutique agency.) I made a huge impact on each of my clients’ businesses and I felt really valued by them.
• I launched my coaching business (under the Harlow umbrella) and felt the right fit calling right away.
• I helped my coaching clients collectively make hundreds of thousands of dollars more in 2025 and build businesses that are truly sustainable.
• I got super comfortable and confident with both coaching and leading events, two muscles I was training and growing.
• I experienced a ton of new places and indulged in a lot of travel and experiences.
• I felt like I truly made the most of every season in its own way.
• I sustained close-knit relationships with my friends, family, and partner, and I felt like I showed up well for the people who mean the most.

2. What made you feel good in 2025?

• Feeling like I was truly impacting people’s lives through my work.
• Leaning into the control I had over making things happen.
• Meeting so many incredible ambitious women (and men) in adjacent industries and taking inspiration from them.
• Feeling overall less apologetic and more confident in who I am and how I show up at work and in my personal life.
• I took running back up and felt REALLY accomplished for the month or two when I was consistent (then winter hit).
• Letting go of fear of judgment or criticism. External voices don’t matter if I know I’m on the right track. Negative emails, social comments, stories in real life coming back to me. None of it matters.

3. What did you struggle with in 2025?

• Stacked business calendar. Too many meetings, not enough time to be creative and strategic.
• Overdelivering. I launched so many new programs and I put extra pressure on myself to act quickly.
• Too much busyness. Back-to-back trips, stacked social calendar… I needed more time to breathe and reflect and just be me.
• Saving. I felt compelled to spend on support, life, trips, etc. which felt right at the time, but I would like to see my compound net worth grow.

4. Which decisions had positive impacts?

• To try new things and launch new programs!
• To experience new places, cultures, and cuisine.
• To break co-dependency and launch programs and revenue streams independently.
• This sounds contradictory, but it’s not. 🙂 To hire a coach and thought partner and bring on the right support (subcontracting, EA, Harlow team members).
• To create a more in-depth business and income tracker to understand all of my business and expenses in depth, as well as my levers.

5. Which decisions steered me off course?

• Opening up my calendar too much.
• Being too available for consulting and coaching clients. Felt the pressure to respond outside of working hours and/or to last minute requests.
• Not packaging up more scalable offers for our audience. I did a lot of one-off and service-based delivery, which meant a constant cycle of creating, doing, and drumming up new interest.
• A lot of phone and screen time when I could have been more present.
• Prioritizing work over self-care. My workout routine and self-care appointments were prioritized after everything else.

6. What do I want to take with me from this year?

• Expansion and growth. More revenue, more programs, more impact delivered.
• Better understanding of my businesses and the levers I can pull.
• Faith in my abilities to grow and deliver value and impact across my business and personal life without overdelivering.
• Joy in travel and experiences.

7. What am I ready to let go of?

• Being too booked (work-wise and socially).
• Starting my days off with checking in on work/clients.
• The urge to overdeliver.
• Any self-doubt or scarcity mindset that sneaks in.

2026 HIGH LEVEL:

What do I want the next year of my life to look like?

I want the next year of my life to feel strategic, easeful, calm, and controlled. I want my business to flow with ease and abundance. I want my personal life to feel purposeful. I want my relationship with myself to strengthen and my understanding and acceptance of self to flourish.

2026 GOALS:

HIGH-LEVEL GUIDE WORD(S): Abundance and Ease

HIGH-LEVEL GUIDING PHRASE: My life and business will feel abundant, purposeful, and easeful, bringing me peace and confidence.

PHYSICAL WELLNESS

GUIDING PHRASE: I invest in myself and my wellness as a top priority over anything else. This fuels my energy to show up well holistically.

3-5 GOALS:

1. Monthly lymphatic facials.
2. Monthly or bi-weekly massages.
3. Movement of any kind 4-5 days/week. Leaving room for the way I want to move my body to shift by season.
4. Incorporate strength training ongoing into my routine.
5. Sauna 3x/week.

MONEY

GUIDING PHRASE: Money will come to me with abundance and ease. I know exactly how to make it and will double down on my levers.

3-5 GOALS:

1. Harlow revenue target: $Xk months by Q4
2. Personal revenue target: $Xk total take home revenue (net minus business expenses).
3. Savings target: Grow savings balance by $Xk
4. Harlow business goals:
   1. $Xk of sponsorships bookings/month ($Xk annually)
      1. Sell bigger sponsorship packages
      2. Lock in long-term contracts
      3. Deliver BIG strategic value for sponsorship partners
      4. Leave room for one-off and smaller partnership only to fill gaps/create long-term relationships
      5. Fill content calendar gaps with strategic referral/affiliate partnerships
   2. $Xk of coaching clients/month ($Xk annually)
      1. ~10-15 clients/month ongoing on retainer
      2. Allow for one-off sessions still as intros only
      3. Use targeted events to lock in new cohorts of coaching clients
      4. Experiment with group coaching components
      5. Continue to deliver top-notch support for coaching clients.
   3. $Xk of job board income/month ($X,000)
      1. Sell white label hiring services
      2. Experiment with other offers/price points/value props.
      3. Deliver more value to the freelancer through strategic and higher paying roles.
   4. $Xk of non-service/media products sold/month ($Xk annually)
      1. Grow product revenue to $Xk/month
      2. Grow Freelance Kickstarter Course to $Xk/month
      3. Experiment with a second course or additional offers.
   5. Pay myself AT LEAST $Xk/mo by Q2 (coaching + revenue distributions)
5. Consulting business goals:
   1. Consistently bring $Xk-$Xk/mo in through consulting ($Xk+ annually)
      1. Maintain current clients.
      2. Potentially bring on a 3rd smaller client.
6. Other revenue goals:
   1. Rental income: $Xk annual
   2. Compounding interest/money growth: $Xk annual

I keep my income goals hidden in this specific post, but I’m happy to discuss them directly if you’re curious! For the record, I’m pro-sharing income reflections and transparency, especially as women and regularly share income updates on social media.

WORK BOUNDARIES

GUIDING PHRASE: I will deliver exceptional value without sacrificing my well-being.

3-5 GOALS:

1. Capped working hours (9am-4pm daily MAX capacity).
2. No slack or email responses before or after working hours.
3. No promise of delivery same or next day.
4. Remove myself as a bottleneck from the team, so they don’t rely on me for same day review/feedback. Empower them to deliver and execute without my micro-management or nuanced guidance from me.
   

FUN

GUIDING PHRASE: I find joy in activities, travel and experiences that fulfill different sides of me, from the indulgent to the creative.

3-5 GOALS:

1. Try 1-2 new or resurfaced hobbies monthly or bi-monthly.
2. Take 10 trips this year, but limit back-to-back extensive travel.
3. Buy an RV this summer/spring and explore the PNW!
   

ACCOUNTABILITY:

PRINT THIS OUT AND PUT IN OFFICE
REFLECT BACK BIWEEKLY OR MONTHLY TO ASSESS PROGRESS

Read my 2025 full reflection here.