Grain of Sand Moments

I’m not sure how it happened, but 2026 is here already – where does the time go? Something I tried in 2025 that I’m carrying into 2026 is creating a Bingo card at the start of the year. It’s not goals. It’s not resolutions. It’s things I want to do over the course of the year.

I like this approach because it takes the pressure off. It’s not about grand gestures or drawing a line in the sand to create an “old me” vs “new me”. It’s simple things that you’d like to do over the next 12 months.

You don’t have to do this, but I like to create a few themes or categories and come up with a few Bingo ideas for each. Example categories could be things like:

• Around the House / Home Projects
• Hobbies & Activities
• Health
• Habits
• Places I Want to Visit
• Books I Want to Read

You can set up your Bingo card however you’d like. I’ve set mine to have 16 fillable squares. If that’s too much, you could choose to have 12, which would work out to completing one per month.

If you want to try mine, you can download it for free here:

Whether you make this an annual tradition or not, I hope you have a happy and healthy new year that’s filled with special moments that become happy memories.