How to Set FIRE Goals and Actually Achieve Them (2026)

New Year's means new goals. And today, we are doing ours live. Scott and I are looking back on what we've accomplished this year, and we will walk through our goal setting process for 2026 across personal life, professional growth, and financial targets. Hello. Hello. Hello. And welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast. My name is Mindy Jensen. And with me as always is my loves to set goals cohost, Scott Trent. Thanks, Mindy. Great to be here with my resolute cohost, Mindy Jensen. Like Mindy said, I think setting goals is hugely important. I think that the end of the year is a great time to look at all of this progress and look towards next year. You know, I I'm so into goal setting that I can't help myself. I actually probably spend way too much time setting and revising and and those types of things with goals, on their consistency and sticking with it every single day is definitely my bigger challenge than having clear goals. I love it. I can't get enough of it, and I'm excited to talk about it today. Well, let's jump into it, Scott. Let's recap twenty twenty five. What did you accomplish personally, professionally, and financially? On the personal side, we welcomed our newest family member this year. That was not really a accomplishment of mine, but rather of my wife's. Thank you, Virginia. Great job, on there. Thank you for all the sacrifice that goes into everything around there from the pregnancy to deliver. I mean, it's just it's just crazy, in there. But that's been wonderful to welcome Taylor into the trench household and see her kind of develop and grow. And she finally moved into her sister's room this week, actually, and that's gone pretty smoothly. So that's been really fun. Just watching the family grow. And on the personal front, I'll also say, as CEO, I was definitely completely obsessed with my work. A lot of the things that you find with, like, very, you know, career oriented people and the the challenges that that provides in their life, those were definitely happening to me in a lot of different areas. And I was able to unwind, a lot of those things and and really kind of reset into a much better place where I'm much, much healthier in my personal life, my family life, all those kinds of things. All that has just completely been a one eighty since this time last year when, things are really challenging for me, frankly, in a lot of ways. On a professional front, this has been just one of the most fun years professionally I've ever had. It's so fun to do this show and to actually have the time to kind of think about, hey, what we did talk about on the show. For eight years, we were doing this. I mean, how many times did I show up and I would just arrive, like, after three …