3 My Family’S Biggest Goal for the Next Year and How We’Re Achieving It
In today's fast-paced world, setting meaningful family goals can be a challenge. This article explores three key areas for family growth: designing intentional rhythms, prioritizing unplugged connections, and preparing for home ownership. Drawing on expert insights, we'll delve into practical strategies to help your family achieve its biggest aspirations for the coming year.
- Design Intentional Family Rhythms
- Prioritize Unplugged Family Connections
- Save and Prepare for Home Ownership
Design Intentional Family Rhythms
As a founder, it's easy to get consumed by metrics, milestones, and growth targets—but over time, I've learned that real success has to be defined beyond business. For my family, our biggest goal for the next year is to **build a more intentional rhythm between work, parenting, and shared experiences**. It's not about achieving perfect balance—that doesn't exist—but about designing our days with more clarity around what truly matters.
The challenge, especially for entrepreneurs, is that the lines between home and work blur fast. It's tempting to treat family time as what's left over once the business is handled. We wanted to flip that. So one of the first steps we've taken is blocking time for *family-first rituals*—before anything hits the business calendar. Weekly Sunday check-ins, digital-free dinners, and quarterly mini-trips where we unplug entirely. It's structured spontaneity, if that makes sense.
We also sat down as a family and defined what "a good year" looks like for us—not just in vague hopes, but in specifics. For example, my spouse wants to complete a creative project they've shelved for years. I want to be present for more of the "little moments" with our kids—school events, bedtime routines, just being around without being half-distracted. And as a family, we want to make giving back part of our rhythm—getting involved in local community work, not just donating but showing up together.
To support all of this, I've made conscious changes at Zapiy too. Delegating more. Setting clearer boundaries around availability. Creating a culture where my team doesn't feel pressured to grind 24/7—because I don't want to model that behavior either.
The steps aren't always flashy, but they're intentional. We're building a year where our priorities show up on the calendar, not just in conversation. Because at the end of the day, companies can scale—but your time with the people who matter most doesn't come back around. And that's the kind of ROI I don't want to lose sight of.
Prioritize Unplugged Family Connections
Our biggest goal for the next year is to be more intentional with our time together—away from screens and daily distractions. With busy work schedules, school commitments, and technology always pulling us, we realized we're often in the same space but not really connecting.
To do this, we've committed to a few specific things. First, we've started unplugged Sundays—one day a week where we put away our phones, tablets, and TVs and do simple things like hiking, cooking together, or board game nights. It's become something we all look forward to and helps us reset before a new week.
We're also planning a device-free family trip with just books, outdoor adventures, and real conversations. Even short weekend getaways are part of this to break routines and create shared memories.
At home, we've started a monthly goal-setting ritual where each of us shares something we want to learn or try, and we support each other in doing it—whether it's learning an instrument or trying a new recipe.
The key has been intention and consistency. We're not aiming for perfection, but we're making deliberate choices to put connection first. Already, we've noticed more laughter, more openness, and a sense of togetherness, and that's exactly what we wanted.
Save and Prepare for Home Ownership
Our biggest goal for the next year is to save for a down payment on a house. We've been renting for a few years, and it's time to move towards owning a place of our own. To achieve this, we've set a strict budget, cutting back on non-essential expenses and tracking every dollar. I've also started taking on a few freelance projects in my spare time to increase our savings. We've opened a high-interest savings account specifically for the down payment and set up automatic transfers each month. On top of that, we're researching neighborhoods and getting pre-approval for a mortgage, so we're ready to act when the time comes. The goal is to make steady, incremental progress each month and stay disciplined with our savings plan. It's a big step, but we're committed to making it happen.
