New Year's Resolutions and Other Goals

Now is the time folks are making their New Year's resolutions or other goals for 2026. People vary in how they like to pursue their goals and what helps them keep on track. Some want others to provide accountability. Others just want moral support and the company of friends doing similar things. Some like having a place to track their progress online, share it with friends, and watch what others are doing. This post provides a place where you can seek any of these. It's okay if you need a certain amount of pressure for success.

Don't want accountability at all, just opportunities? That's okay too; you can just skip this post and look for other resources that suit your needs, like the one about alternatives.

Read on for some ideas...

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This January, don't change who you are, just try vegan

New Delhi [India], December 9: Veganuary -- the global campaign to try vegan for January and beyond - is today launching its 2026 campaign, titled "New Year, Same You". Since launching in India in 2022, Veganuary has had wide success, and more than 140,000 Indians have already signed up for the 2026 campaign.

With "New Year, Same You", Veganuary is flipping the usual New Year narrative on its head. Instead of pushing people to become someone "better", Veganuary reminds people that taking part does not require changing who they are - just making a few simple swaps that naturally fit into their everyday lives

Get the prompt list. It should also work for vegetarians, flexitarians, climatarians,etc. if you treat it as a "one vegan meal per day" challenge.

Dreamwidth offers a place to post pretty much whatever people want to share. However, a lot of creators put their stories, webcomics, etc. on some other platform and only share links on Dreamwidth. The same holds true for the recommendation communities for fiction and other topics: most rely on links that lead offsite. The problem with this is that more and more platforms are closing to nonmembers, becoming unavailable in some parts of the world, incompatible with some software or hardware, suffering service outages -- or shutting down entirely like Cohost did. That makes offsite links less useful than in the past, because there's no telling who can see the content or not. When creators post the full content on Dreamwidth in an open blog, however, anyone already using Dreamwidth can access that content. (Creators still have the option of using access lists and filters if they want to serve a more specific audience.) Furthermore, copying the material to multiple platforms increases the chance of more people seeing it and of it surviving if one platform collapses.  We've lost enough fanwork archives already.

This post provides a place to list communities and individual blogs where people post full content. It will help readers find new sources to enjoy, and creators find new audience members. It supports goals related to blogging, reading, writing, networking, Dreamwidth, and so on. It's a bit like Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, except not limited in time and you can echo your work on other platforms in addition to this one. MOAR GOODEEZ for everyone! \o/

You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2026 and reply with a comment. Below the list of sample full-content journals is a short form for listing what you have chosen. You can make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Full Content on Dreamwidth challenge in goals_on_dw" or similar. Then make a tag for it like "Full Content" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Writing, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fanfic, Webcomics, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

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Organizing Your Belongings for when you Don't Want to Organize Your Belongings by buttonsbeadslace

For me, the difficult part about organizing is setting aside time & mental energy to go through a whole pile of items in one sitting. This is a method for answering questions like "Which of these pairs of pants actually fit me well?" or "What supplies do I need for This Activity?" not by asking that question over and over for a bunch of items, but by going about your daily life and letting the answer shake out by itself.

The basic idea is simple: you choose a temporary new place to put the type of things you are trying to organize, but you do not, initially, put anything in there. Items go in the temporary new place after you have used them in the course of your regular item-using.


This is an absolutely brilliant approach for people whose main obstacle against organizing is the inability to find a big enough chunk of time and energy. Here you don't need that, you just move things as you use them. It makes the last round of cleanup much quicker and easier. You can also combine that round with the "box it and ignore it for X time to see if you miss it" technique. \o/

TRY NEW THINGS THIS YEAR: 28 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION IDEAS

The best New Year’s goals are all about getting out of your comfort zone or routine! Even if you love setting resolutions that are practical—like saving money or decluttering—it’s great to dedicate yourself to trying something new this year. Here’s some inspiration for your 2026 goals!


Mixing fun or adventurous goals into your list along with practical ones makes it easier to accomplish things.

Many people like to look back on the past year as they approach the New Year. Some have already starting posting their reflections from 2025, so now seemed like a good time to make a gather post for these. Other people will wait until December 31 or January 1 before doing theirs.

If you have a theme, resolution, list of goals, etc. from January 2025, then you can use that as your template. Simply go over that and assess how well you met your aim.

You may also choose to look at a list of questions to examine different parts of your past year. Earlier ones appear in printables for 2026 and for any year. Here are some ideas ...

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There are all kinds of reading challenges and goals that people like to do. Some are individual, others are group events. Some are all year, others shorter. Some have speculative fiction themes, others are ordinary. They span a great many different formats including but not limited to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and fanfic. Here are some for your inspiration. On Dreamwidth, see communities for books.

You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2026 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Reading challenge in goals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Reading Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Reading, Fiction, Meta, Science Fiction, Fanfic, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

For printables to track your progress, see Books & Reading in Thematic Trackers or Challenges by Numbers.

There is a Bingo Card Generator if you want to make your own using premade lists or whatever prompts you want to paste in. Various sizes and styles are available.

See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to review every book you read all year, or compile a list of favorite fanfics you've found, go for it. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g. 50books_poc and Fannish 50.

Do you know of any other reading challenges in 2026? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.

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There are all kinds of craft challenges and goals that people like to do. Some are individual, others are group events. Some are all year, others shorter. Some have speculative fiction themes, others are ordinary. They span a great many different arts and crafts including but not limited to crochet, drawing, knitting, painting, quilting, sewing, and woodworking. Here are some for your inspiration. On Dreamwidth, see communities for Art and Crafts. Note that get_knitted makes regular checkin posts for your craft projects.

You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2026 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Arts and Crafts challenge in goals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Arts and Crafts Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Art, Crafts, Crochet, Painting, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

There is a Bingo Card Generator if you want to make your own using premade lists or whatever prompts you want to paste in. Various sizes and styles are available.

See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to crochet the crew of the Enterprise, sew a complete capsule wardrobe inspired by hobbits, or carve a replica of Hogwarts, go for it. Either writing about or posting pictures of your progress will count. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g. stashbusting, crochet, and Fannish 50.

Do you know of any other arts and crafts challenges in 2026? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.

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This is the signup post for the Fannish 50 blogging challenge in 2026. (See the 2025 challenge.)

Fannish 50 began in 2023 with a challenge by colls in swannee. Since then, it has spread to other blogs and communities.

The parameters are simple: Make fifty posts about topics related to fandom. You may set any theme(s) you wish, or pick random topics for each post. "Questions and Questionnaires for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth" includes a list of questionnaires on fannish topics if you want to use one of those as a framework. Post something like "I signed up for the Fannish 50 challenge at goals_on_dw " in your blog, then put a "Fannish 50" tag in your blog to make it easier for other people to find your entries. Adding "Fannish 50" to your Interests will also help identify you as a participant or reader. (It is best to use exactly the phrase "Fannish 50" because DW search tools don't recognize variations as the same topic, and to attach the tag to a post so it sticks.) Another good idea is setting up a masterlist where you can link your posts as you make them, which may or may not be part of your announcement post. Then make a comment below this post with details about your goal. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.

Primary posting will run January 1 -- December 31, 2026. With 50 posts, it fits neatly into a year with 2 weeks to spare. However, you don't have to do it that way if you don't want to, and there's no hard limit on posting timeframe. You could make them daily posts, or monthly posts, or sporadic posts, whatever works for you and eventually adds up to 50.



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