Setting Meaningful Marriage Goals for 2025

Good ol’ January. The time of resolutions, new ambitions, fresh starts, and goal setting! I love a good goal setting session. I used to love getting my staff together to lay out all of the metrics for the new year and build up excitement about all the things we were going to accomplish. We had retreats, catered meals, and fun activities to do. All of my goals for many years were focused on accomplishments, money, and community impact. Pretty much in that order, too.

While I was getting coffee with a friend one day, I was explaining to him all of things I wanted to accomplish. He politely interrupted me and asked “What about goals for your family? Or your marriage? Or who you are as a dad?” I had never considered that before. I had always felt that I was a perfect human, a basically perfect dad, and a better husband than anyone else I had witnessed. What could I possibly need to work on?

Well, after Amanda and I experienced the roughest time in marriage that we had ever had, it was clear that I had a few things to work on. I am very familiar with L10 meetings that were developed by Gino Wickman and he elaborates on these business style meetings in his book titled Traction. Amanda and I implemented a variation of this meeting style in our Marriage Check-in meetings. If you missed Amanda’s blog about those meetings, you can find it HERE. After asking myself enough questions and utilizing resources that I have learned from, Amanda and I thought that setting goals for our marriage was a good idea and it prioritized our marriage above many other aspects in our lives.

Our three marriage goals for 2025 are:

Planned date night every other week
Consistent monthly Marriage Check-ins
1,000 hours of quality time together in nature

Let me ask, what are your marriage goals for 2025? Or possibly family goals? When you think about your goals, consider these different aspects to marriage: communication, quality time, intimacy, conflict resolution, finances, etc.

Here are a few prompt questions to help you start thinking.

-Where do you feel like your marriage lacks? How could you improve on that?
-What have you always wanted to accomplish/experience as a couple?
-How can you keep track of this goal?
-What is your “one day” goal that could be moved up to this year? (Ex: One day, we will travel to…)

Leave a comment on the blog and tell us what your goals are! You may just help another couple come up with their goals!