How to Set Achievable Summer☀️Goals

(Because Your New Year’s Resolutions Are Deader Than Your Fiddle Leaf Fig)

Let’s be real: those New Year’s resolutions you scribbled down with glittery hope and a fresh planner? Yeah, they lasted about as long as a box of wine at a PTA meeting. Fast-forward to now, and suddenly it’s June. You’re sweating through your bra, wondering how it’s already almost summer and why you still haven’t “started that new habit,”" “decluttered the house,” or “trained for a 5K.”

Girl, you didn’t even walk 5K steps yesterday. And that’s okay.

Because summer is the real new year for grown-ass women who’ve been winging it since February. So, grab a cold drink, put on your sassiest sunglasses, and let’s talk about how to actually set goals you won’t abandon faster than a group chat with too many emojis.

Table of Contents:

1. Burn the Pinterest Goals and Start Fresh

2. Pick Three. Just Three. You Are Not a Summer Overachiever Barbie

3. Be Specific - Because “Get It Together” is Not a Goal, It’s a Cry for Help

4. Deadlines are Sexy (No Really)

5. Post It Where Your Lazy Self Can’t Escape It

6. Find a Friend Who Will Roast You if You Slack Off

7. Celebrate Like the Badass You Are (Sans Self-Sabotage)

8. Embrace the Chaos and Enjoy the Damn Summer

9. Goal Tracker

1. Burn the Pinterest Goals and Start Fresh

Let’s stop pretending you’re going to become a morning person, master sourdough, and train for a triathlon all before Labor Day. That kind of toxic optimism belongs in 2020 (and the dumpster fire year that it was).

Girl, be realistic! Don’t be extra.

Get your flip-flops & dry shampoo!

This summer, we’re aiming for goals that don’t make you want to cry in the shower or eat cookie dough straight from the tub. Set goals that feel like yes, I can actually pull this off in flip-flops with unwashed hair.

2. Pick Three. Just Three. You Are Not a Summer Overachiever Barbie.

You are a complex human with limited energy, a bad habit of doomscrolling, and a tendency to get distracted by Target clearance endcaps. Don’t make a goal list longer than your last CVS receipt.

Pick three goals max. That’s it. If it doesn’t make you feel accomplished and slightly smug when you complete it, it doesn’t make the cut.

3. Be Specific - Because “Get It Together” Is Not a Goal, It’s a Cry for Help

“Get fit”? Cute. But unless you’re planning to define “fit” as “fitting in a nap between Netflix episodes,” try again.

Try:

• “Walk for 20 minutes without checking Instagram”

• “Meal prep three lunches that aren’t beige and depressing”

• “Do yoga without cussing out the instructor on YouTube”

You need stupid-clear goals your tired brain can follow without an interpretive dance routine.

4. Deadlines Are Sexy (No, Really)

Nothing says “I’m serious about my glow-up” like a goal with a deadline. No, not “someday” or “eventually” - I’m talking real, grown-up dates.

Write it down. Put it on a calendar. Make it official like you’re planning a hot girl summer, not vague girl limbo.

5. Post It Where Your Lazy Self Can’t Escape It

Write your goals on a mirror (use your fave lipstick💄, if needed), your fridge, your forehead - whatever it takes. Set it as your phone lock screen if you must.

Hide your snacks behind it. Shame works wonders when it’s strategically placed near your peanut butter cups (just taking a guess on this one 💁🏼‍♀️).

6. Find a Friend Who Will Roast You If You Slack Off

You don’t need another “accountability buddy” who lets you cancel plans and binge Bravo. You need a savage hype friend who’ll text,

⎸ “Girl, did you even drink water today or are you 87% cold brew?

Bonus if they send memes as motivation and refuse to let you fall back into your goblin mode. (Here are some that I made because I can be that friend who will roast you so you don’t slack off!)

7. Celebrate Like the Badass You Are (Sans Self-Sabotage)

You did the thing? HELL YES. Reward yourself - but let’s not undo all your progress with a 4-hour Target rampage and a margarita flight.

Try:

• A solo dance party (it’s a solo, so dance like no one is watching!)

• A fancy iced coffee

• Upgrading your pajamas to something that doesn’t scream “emotional breakdown in progress”

Small wins = big deal. Act like it.

8. Embrace the Chaos and Enjoy the Damn Summer

Listen, life’s too short to spend the whole summer in pursuit of perfection. Your thighs will touch. Your house won’t stay clean. You will eat popsicles for dinner one night.

And that’s the magic.

Set goals that serve you. That make you smile. That let you grow without turning into a humorless productivity robot with color-coded everything. (Here’s your goal tracker to help keep track of progress - printable or digital.)

This is your reminder that progress counts even if it’s messy, late, sweaty, and held together by iced coffee and dry shampoo.

Now go get your summer goals, you spicy overachiever-in-recovery. You’ve got this - and even if you don’t, you’ll at least look cute trying.