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When September 2026 rolls around and you receive your answers to your 10Q questions, how do you think you'll feel? What do you think/hope might be different about your life and where you're at as a result of thinking about and answering these questions?

i like doing this exercise. I love the way it makes me feel. I've done it 8 of the last 10 years, and i regret the years i failed to do it. This is special. it gives me some subtle nudge to keep thinks interesting and to give information that I'm not just laying around doing nothing. I think answering the questions force me to witness my thoughts and action.

I think I’ll feel more like myself than ever before. Becoming a mother feels like I have finally found my truest calling. I hope that by then I’ll have overcome the mental block in my career. Answering these questions was a good reminder for me of what matters most to me and that that’s my “why” for everything I do.

Teddy will be 1.5 years old, so much will have changed with him. For me I hope I'm still feeling good about our life and I really hope that I'm feeling better about the state of our country. It's hard to be optimistic at this time, very frustrating and scary and I'm not a 'target.' So dumb. So maddening, and keeps me up at night.

I guess in 2024 and in this round of answers I'm feeling pretty down on myself. It would be awesome if by this time next year I was feeling clicked back into my mojo, my confidence. And, as I said last year, I hope that this reflection can be an impetus for me to start and IRL activism/service practice.

I'm hoping we have a democracy and that we are mere weeks away from us taking our country back from the brink of fascism. I'm hoping that I've recovered professionally from being DOGE-ed. I'm hoping that people will see the president and his lackeys in the right light, that they see the grift. I hope that we can afford our mortgage, food, clothes for our kid - you know, the basics - without stress. I just want more than pennies in my bank account and the constant stress of shuffling money to pay our regular bills. That the economy rights itself, that we go back to politics as usual because people recognize that lifting up billionaires is stupid and against anyone's self interest. I hope that Christians wake up and see that Christian Nationalism flies in the face of everything they say they hold dear - it is so anti-Jesus and Jesus' teachings that it's utterly laughable that people arresting immigrants in the streets, stripping poor from alms and assistance, cutting healthcare access to millions claim to be Christian. That I, an atheist, am more Christian than all of them. We shall see. I can not separate myself and my family's fortunes from what is happening to my country, and impacting the world in kind.

For the first time in my life, I hope I’ll feel very similar to how I feel today; connected to my husband, celebrated by my community, continually seeding roots for our family, and setting new goals for my next year.

When next September rolls around I hope im happy and not fearful of anything. I hope I stand up for what is right and what is best for me. I hope I am able to help others in their lives. I also hope I stop and be grateful for what I have, what I was able to accomplish and where I"ll be.

Disappointed in myself accomplishing nothing yet again Scared / Disappointed in how much worse the world has gotten I really hope I have a career not just a job, but i may just need a job to survive at this point It's good to step back and consider instead of just treading to keep afloat, but not sure once a year is enough

I may live in another country. I may be together or apart from my partner. I will definitely still be the mama of the most amazing child ever. From previous years, my prediction is that my answers will likely still hold true, things don't always change as quickly as we'd assume.

This feels like a make it or break it year for me. I will either feel elated because I made so many positive changes or defeated because I wasn't able to. I am betting on elated and amazed at myself. I hope I will have set myself up for a happier, more fulfilling future. With my relationship, it is or has ended or dramatically improved. I hope I will have given my full effort, even when it is hard, to put my work in the world. I will have made a significant amount of money to pay down my debts and live a life meeting and exceeding my dreams and desires.

First of all, I really hope that next year I will answer the questions on the day they arrive, and not wait until the last night to do them! I'm tired and in a bit of a funk today, so it is coloring all of my responses. I'm inspired though by my answer this this question last year, and it reminds me of all the resilience, determination and optimism I have felt throughout my life. I know I still have that in me.

I think I'll feel: - grateful to 10Q for making this reflection platform - glad that I took the time to answer - super pleased that I managed to come back in 2025 to get all the answers in! - pleasantly surprised at my progress on some things and amused at how I could have forgotten others

I hope I'll be able to manage my time better so I'm not answering this at the 11th hour right before the vault closes! I wonder if I'll be doing Muse again? Will I have a Nutcracker lined up? Will I be anywhere closer to starting a dance company? I hope I'll have weathered Jonathan's absence alright. I hope I haven't disappointed myself, I hope I've honored and celebrated both of us and that we're feeling excited about what's coming, whatever that is! I hope I'll have created so many interesting dances and be excited to create more. Looking forward to meeting the woman who will read these words. May she be proud of me, proud of all that I go through to become her, and may we join forces to continue this beautiful journey together.

I hope I will be in school once again, settled among new friends and colleagues and finally doing what I'm meant to be doing--teaching and research! I hope I will learn to stop doubting myself and believing other's voices before my own.

I think the uncertainty of this world right now is really tearing me up. I hope the moments of joy and laughter and like minded people will unite and take down this bully. We must actively fight for peace (I know) and protect the most vulnerable. I hope my tiny family is safe and healthy. I hope there will still be time for flowers and laughter.

I hope that the first feeling that comes to mind is confidence. I am ready to feel confident. And meet myself with so much grace. Being ok with where my path is at. And not getting tripped up on how things can go poorly, but maybe how great they can go because I am strong enough to figure it out, pivot, ditch the plan, always. I think that confidence will correlate to peace. Fingers crossed, anyway. Send good vibes to me, QOQ.

I hope that I'm feeling more engaged with my work. I hope that I've carved more time out for my art. I hope that the hostages are back, the war is over, and Israel is rebuilding. I hope I feel safer in America, given the political situation here and the anti-semitism. I hope I'm spending more time with my friends.

I hope I’ll be proud of myself for putting this in words and accomplishing the things I set out to accomplish.

I hope we're in a better position as a country and a world, but I am not really hopeful about that. I hope I've actually followed through on some of my answers!

I hope that we will be building a new improved Gaza and the hiring freeze will be finally lifted so we can return to earning a living..I definitely pray to be in a cooler better place financially and geographically and emotionally. By this time next year I hope to be able to read Hebrew, especially my bat mitzvah portion! Jessica and Justin's appeals should be officially denied and they will have heard my victim impact statements. Penelope's case (and my case) should hopefully be ruled in our favor and maybe we will get an excellent judgement from that for our pain and damages. What's important to me is sometimes not important to God and what I have learned is I plead to God about the things I need and He doesn't make that happen. But I am blessed and glad to be here. I find these questions helpful for reflection, but I would benefit from a goat shaped checklist

Okay feet, house and career xx :)

I am sure I will be surprised, pleasantly. This is my first year completing reflections for all 10 questions. I hope that my responses will resonate with me a year from now, that perhaps I have also taken some action as a result of having thought about the future experiences I hope to have.

I hope I will be in a better space emotionally.

I think I spent the past year doing a lot of integrating of the Fulbright experience, the data, being with family, attending Saturday services more regularly because of Lucy's bat mitzvah. I don't know that I have any more answers about how to reconcile with alienation from the Jewish community post-10/7. I don't think I have any more answers about how to navigate loneliness when my family is at camp. I don't feel I have any more answers about how to grow in a world that is being suffocated by supremacies. Over these holidays, I've thought a lot about how we see the spacetime of here and now, yet we are dwarfed both by space and time. I hope next year continues to ground my growth, however big or small I feel.

I’ll feel disappointed that I haven’t been able to change more for the better in my family and the world. Maybe I’ll figure something out in the next year.

When Rosh Hashanah 2026 rolls around I want to have some groundedness in doing the work of community building. I want to feel the beginnings of belonging. I hope more of the people I love and care for will want something different for the world and will want more people upon the earth. Will want that more than their own excess of comfort. I think after having lived abroad for a year I'll have very different answers to these questions and will be eager to review a decade worth of answers and then answer them again.

I will be excited to see what I wrote and if it’s come true or at least advanced me due to having thought about it.

I hope I’ll feel more at ease with myself and my life.

I hope to feel even better than I felt this year. There was pain rereading the answers but also pride in the Path I've walked so far. I've risen above the pain and used it to cultivate a growth mentality which has propelled me forward in my job, my studies and my relationship with women. I've created really good bonds with quite a few of them. Then there's V from school. There's always one who pulls at the heartstrings, innit? I hope next year I can type that we either became good friends or, who knows, a couple. Who knows, who knows....

I'll be completely unsurprised, because my goals are well known to me. I've not recorded them as SMART targets before, though, so that'll be interesting. It would be amazing to either feel better about my professional life, or have found something else that fulfils me to do for a living instead. I don't really mind which!

I believe what would be different is my focus will be on what is important, and I won't waste my time or energy on aspects of my life that do not serve me. Overall, by this time next year I feel confident I will be content and happy where I am living in the moment.

It would be wonderful if I find that I've effectively & proactively addressed all of my responses. If that is the case, I anticipate my daily living will be significantly less complicated, easier and more fulfilling. Active and in-person spiritual progress could and would be a welcome release--a joyful step in the best direction.

I really hope I'm in a different place with my grief - I know I will carry it forever, and that's OK, because it's my love for G. But I really hope the edges aren't so sharp, and it isn't so incredibly big and heavy that I can't do anything else. I hope I've found a place to keep it, where I know it's there and can appreciate it for what it represents, but also have enough energy and space to continue to live life the way I want to.

I hope I feel like I've made some progress!

I think I will feel nostalgic and proud of how far I have come

I didn't read last year's answers this year, so I don't know if I'll read this year's answers next year. LOL. I'm not big on self-reflection. I started this process years ago, but I rarely read past answers. I find it kind of cringe, actually! But the practice of answering the questions helps me get the anxieties out of my head and stored away somewhere else. So thanks for that!

I think I'll smile at all of the anxiety I'm currently feeling about how much my life will change with a baby. I hope I'm feeling more Zen and that I'll have clarity on what really is important in my life. And I'll probably marvel at what the hell I did with all of my free time that I didn't think was free.

I hope I’ll still be around and in good enough shape to reflect upon the past year - my hopes and dreams - and to make any necessary adjustments!

I hope I'll remember what a tender time late summer/early autumn 2025 was - lots of pain and struggle and grief, and I think, on the cusp of some major changes. I hope I'll feel on more solid ground, and will look back at my 2025 self with love, tenderness, and compassion.

I have the feeling that 2026 will be a year of change and growth. I hope I will travel a lot and have a lot of fun and also will have a lot of meaningful relationships.

I hope that wherever I am, reading these answers helps me zoom out and remember how I got there.

I think I'll be curious to see my answers. I don't really know what next year will hold for me, and it's scary but also exciting. I hope I will be more sure of myself and will be putting more thoughts and ideas into action. I just want to try things, even if it may not work out. I want to feel more at ease about my friendships, love life, and career. I hope I will get better at learning things I can't control. Every year, unexpected things pop up personally and world wide, so I want to be resilient.

Happy to say that this year that my kids are in a better place. For next year I hope for more growth and acceptance of my life and where I am.

I was in Fernie BC when questions showed up. I think I might be beaver and plugged in. I think the questions reveal how many of my issues have been given little face time and I have forgotten to keep the truth out front at all time

If I'm alive, I'll be happy and thankful for another trip around the sun. If I'm dead, I sure hope I died in September 2026 and got as much travel in as I could!

Honestly, I am anticipating that the next year is going to be another difficult one. My dad is quickly losing weight. He's down almost 10 pounds from the summer - just 3 months. And his appetite is quickly shrinking. He's otherwise healthy. But no muscle mass. So I anticipate that it's going to be tough to figure out how to manage all the travel and family, let alone grief with my dad.

I didn't give time to this Just as I didn't last year Maybe next year I will

When Sept 2026 rolls around I know I will be better than I was last year. I am always growing and improving. Better able to handle the challenges before me.

I hope I’ll be feeling better than I feel now snd I’ll be able to laugh at my fears.

I don;t know how I will feel. I hope that the world and national situation will not be as gloomy as it is now. I hope that I will have my weight under better control and that I will be less exhausted. I hope to have some craft work which I am proud of.

I know i will be curious to review my previous answers. I hope that i am not still on the same thought-loop. That my ideas, perspective and experiences have progressed from where i was a year ago.

I'll have a better understanding of my health and my husbands health and maybe I wont own a single boat!

I hope we are all 3 happy and healthy. I hope I've moved forward to a more creative more autonomous life that pays the bills for us all. For the first time in 3 years I ask - where will I be in a year? And I'm excited rather than fearful at not knowing. Flora work has been good for me, but I'm not sure if I'll continue. I have some nice clothes, a new washing machine and a new laptop! So let's make use of them ha ha !!! I'm less afraid to clear out the old stuff that's no longer serving me now I feel new possibilities will take their place. It's amazing how much my mind is freed up by having a couple of months of rent in hand and no debt. I can finally breathe. Let's use this momentum!!!

Reading them in 2025 from 2024 was fun because I was pregnant and now our wonderful baby is here. I hope that I feel the happy nostalgia that I felt when I read them in 2026.

I stopped making predictions about the coming year sometime in 2017. Every single year since then has been crazy in one way or another. Yom Kippur began with a synagogue terror attack in Manchester. Not an auspicious start. So yeah, no bets on this year.

I think I will enjoy seeing the difference from where I am today and where I will be when I read these answers next year. I hope I will have settled into being "semi-retired" and found a way to be useful to others, whether it be at Union Station Homeless Services, the ACLU, or somewhere else.

I'm hoping to be satisfied with what I was able to accomplish, no regrets.

I hope I'll be calm and equinamous as I was this year. I live each day to the best of my ability and with my highest moral striving, so there are no surprises.

Alas, my answer last year was to hope for something outside my control, which was that Trump would not be re-elected/that Kamala Harris would be our next president. This make me realize I should only answer about things that are within my control, to at least some extent. So what I hope is that I continue to build strong relationships with my neighbors and friends, stitching together a circle of support that will help keep us safe and active in fighting back against this regime. I hope I am doing something by this time next year that I feel is making some difference, at least to some people. (I volunteer to pick up money for the bail fund, which feels mildly helpful, and I do 30 Days of Poetry in November for Center for New Americans, which last year raised more than $1000, and that feels good, but I hope I've added to those two things next year.) Seeing that two years in a row (maybe more if I look back further) I wanted to make my writing time more of a priority makes me really hope that I feel proud to have done that by next year. I hope my mother continues to live peacefully at Christopher Heights. (Again, outside my control but I am doing my part to help ensure that happens.)

Last year I didn't do the questions, for the first time in a long time. When I realized that this year, I felt I had let myself down a little. Next year when I view my responses, I hope that I will feel that I have traveled a little toward my goal of being a good person.

I think I'll feel relief once through Lauren's bat mitzvah. This year is going to be a hard one, starting with the shutdown but I hope I will actually feel more free, more alive, more authentically me, more brave. I wish!

I hope I feel proud of myself for how much I've grown this past year and how much I'm in even better, healthier, more authentic version of myself. Living a healthy, injury free, more authentic life as a result of this reflective practice. And I will be my own compassionate witness on a regular basis seeking validation from within.

I hope to learn new tools for challenging my negativity bias. I hope these tools help me forge new neural pathways that engender self-trust and self-love.

I imagine I will feel a sense of timelessness - these answers feeling simultaneously like yesterday and forever ago. I imagine I will feel an uneasy sense of familiarity - these answers simultaneously highlighting how much has changed and how much has stayed the same.

I am convinced that if I take seriously the lessons learning in 5785 / 2024-2025, as well as the impact of thinking about and answering these questions, I will be a version of myself who is more grounded and aligned with my inner self. Which I believe will inevitably make me more prosperous in my external reality. I pray that I will find a version of myself that makes me not only proud of myself, as well as more useful to my loved ones and the world more broadly, but that brings my mother z"l, in whatever state she is in, a sense of peace and happiness. We are told in Deuteronomy that placed before us is a blessing and a curse, life and death, and it is my duty to choose the blessing, to choose life. I am determined to feel that my life is such a life come September 2026.

Hope springs eternal. I would like to feel a sense of accomplishment at having progressed from the person who sits here today feeling sad, secluded and incapable.

I hope I am at peace with my actions and thoughts.

I think I will continue to see myself moving in the right direction. I am, at some level, very concerned that I will die this year, and I hope that I see that fear was misguided.

I think I will feel that where I was in 2025 was exactly where I needed to be: rooted, connected in community, home-based mostly, living in art and in service, solitude. And, I think my natural urge for growth and stimulation is going to be kicking in, wanting relationship, wanting a stretch toward physical and emotional horizons... maybe buying a house, maybe seeking a companion, maybe some travel, I don't know, but expanding my comfort zone in some way feels likely.

I hope to feel proud of overcoming all my fears, shortcomings, insecurities and other limiting factors. I want to be proud of myself and, hopefully, serve as a role model to others and my future self. In the immortal words of Mathew McConaughey, My hero is myself, but somewhere down the line...not right now.

Stoked that my prediction that I'd be laughing at my 2024 answers in 2025 was spot on. Next year, hoping I'm reading them from a public library computer during my weekly trek to town, after spending the previous six days sitting on the land. Inquiry is golden, under threat, soon to be / already routinely indicted. It is also an inveterate personal characteristic, so I plan to practice, practice, practice no matter what. That won't make my life different, but it will ensure I'm learning and acting in concert.

If I'm still here (which I assume, no pressing immediate health issues that I know of), I hope to feel more stable, more solid, and more in control of my behavior. Self awareness has grown a lot the last few years. Age can give one a long term perspective. So many of the cliches are true. But it's time to hand over the reins to the young folks coming up. I think that about politics, but also in terms of our own lives. It's too difficult to predict what will have happened in the next year. Trump's government has done so much that was crazy and unexpected. I can't (and don't want to) try to guess what madness they will unleash next. Deep breath. Innnnnnn. Hold. Ouuuuut. Things we can control and things we can't.

My answer to last year is my answer for this year. My life is already complete, already charmed. Things might change, like I’d love a game plan and timeline for moving back to my home town, but there are no real barriers to me having a full and happy life. I love my husband, work is a healthy blend of stress and achievement. We decided to not have kids. I need hernia surgery and hope to feeling strong again next year. 10Q reflection, especially witnessing similarities from year to year, helps me see that new “problems” will always come. And I can simultaneously recognize those frustration without falling into the trap of missing the Big picture. Wherever you go… there you are!

I really hope that I've addressed my overarching fear of uncertainties with 1) money, 2) retirement, 3) where we'll live or "settle" and 4) relationships with our adult children and their life partners. I really hope that I've come to peace with one of our adult kid/couples and their choices about having a family. I think life will be different because of retirement, planning, learning to lean into a new way of living. I am both excited and a little anxious about all that this new year, through 9/26, will offer. I am hopeful that by putting all this down in writing, I will have some greater impetus to act on it and make the changes I want to see and be and do in the coming year. I want to leave a legacy to my kids and grandchildren and family and friends that is meaningful and that I'll be remembered as a kind, generous, loving and compassionate human being.

I hope it's helped me get my thoughts together and in front of me enough to achieve the goals I want to accomplish

I hope I am having more fun. I hope I've finally earned this promotion that keeps being dangled in front of me. I hope that I've found a little more peace and balance. I hope that I am stronger and running faster!

In a year, I'm afraid my fears about the current administration will be realized. Personally, I'm hoping to spend more time with my granddaughters and my children.

Ahhh what there's no way it's been a year since school. But to answer the question, I want to understand myself more, understand why I get so easily into patterns of I'm scared to go and do what I want to do, but I know I want to do it, and I know I can do it, I just don't. But also let's be real, I am doing it, travelling, but in a years time, I just hope that I don't think that I wasted my time, I want to be happy and appreciate the life I lead myself on this year. I want to know that I did overcome some things that were really bothering me, or that really held me back. I don't know what I want my next steps to be, but I think I'll know a direction, but also I don't really care if I don't, I'll figure it out. I want to have gotten better at guitar. But how do I think I'll feel? I hope happy, proud and a little nostalgia, every memory is so fleeting, I'm just hoping to experience as many things as possible and maybe I'll look at myself now as a little baby, not ready for the worlds she's about to conquer, maybe not conquer, rather, live.

I am little afraid of what lies ahead as a retired person. I've worked my whole life (since I was 15). I still plan to be busy working, but this time not for pay. I am also excited about the change. I hope to feel wiser about retirement, and hopefully content and fulfilled at the directions I've chosen for myself.

I hope to feel accomplished, at peace and no regrets about the past year. I’m hopeful thinking about and reflecting on questions helps me to be more intentional with decisions and goals.

My guess is I'll feel proud of the life I have created here. I'll feel grateful for opportunities I have had, the work I have done, and the people who remain or who I have met.

I hope Trump and Vance are gone. I hope the United States regains its sanity and empathy for its fellow citizens.

If the country and the world haven't been destroyed by tRump, then I'll consider it a win. Today's news was that Hamas will release all the remaining hostages. That's the best news in quite a while, although I'm skeptical because of all the details that need to happen on both sides before that will take place. I hope my life continues on its current upward trajectory. We'll have lots to celebrate in the coming year with my son's wedding. I'd love to see a decrease in Jew hatred, but I'm not too optimistic about that. We'll see! Praying for more good to offset all the evil in the world.

I think I'll feel.. content enough.. I hope. Seems to be my internal state.

I hope I’m a little bit more in control of life and achieving financial stability with net savings. I don’t want to stretch my goals too much, but income and expenses feels like a constant in and out process right now and I’d like to achieve a more predictable financial cycle/stability. I’m in a better place than I was last year but still plenty to work on for this coming year. I hope I can say the same thing next year, which would indicate continued forward progress.

I think on the one hand I'll feel silly for having the fears and complaints that I have now. Many of them will seem like a distant memory in a year. I hope I'll have more stability and continue my moves toward a more anchored life. Less blowing in the breeze, more certainty.

I'm very afraid of how I'll feel next year. Frankly, I'd like to get the hell out of here. The US is cooked. It's all Christian nationalism and I'm not a Christian. First things first, get my TZ renewed and get my Israeli Passport. Thats why Israel is there. I really need to research where I want to go, how and why. I think this country is terribly dangerous for blacks, browns, other religions. It scares me so badly.

God I hope that this war in Gaza is over and the re-building has begun. I expect that to happen and to be incredibly relieved. It may be wishful thinking but I am hopeful that, with the war over in Gaza, the world will tone down its hatred of Israel.

I am hoping that I can look back at my answers this year and know that I have continued to grow as a person, by improving some habits, by finding more of a connection to a spiritual community, and by making some decisions about my future living situation and caring for my dad.

I hope I feel hopeful and somewhat satisfied with the progress I've made. And to be able to move around more smoothly.

Live life to the fullest. I want to live life to the fullest

I think I will feel surprised as I will have probably forgotten the answers by then. I actually hope I get to do at least some of the things I told myself I would do, but I also think I should be kind to myself as there are lots of things I cannot control and will impact my life and my choices. Future me, YOU'VE GOT THIS!!!

I am looking forward to see more growth. More understanding of my Ageing self. To be open to give and receive more love and more grace. To enjoy the ride and help others find their joy.

I honestly wonder if I’ll look back on these answers and marvel at how naive I was to think there was a way to stop or slow the authoritarian takeover of our democratic institutions. Just a few months ago, while I knew things would be bad, I never dreamed it would be THIS bad. So how bad will it be a year from now?

I believe I’ll be happier, Kvetchy about the heat for a minute, but enjoying life at Camp DB Sr community. Seeing my answer last year, my vision is coming true except for living alone. Yet.

I am looking for the answers. I have no clue how this works.

I expect to be in exactly the same position. No change, no growth. Just sadness and regret.

Honestly, I hope I look back and think "girl, what were you so worried about??" But in an affectionate way! I do think I've grown a ton, and I believe that more is coming.

I hope I am living my best single life! That I’m happy and working towards passion projects, have a full life with many foster dogs, travel, and the like. That I’m hitting my stride, baby! Don’t surprise me with anything next year, okay, universe? Just gimme a nice one. Smooth, fun, full of vitality.

I think I will feel pleased with seeing how often my dreams become reality. I don’t think the process of answering these questions results in life changing, but it’s cool to document my life as it is changing.

I hope I will feel afraid, but that afraid of the mountain or the sea because the next stage is coming and I can stop it and I just have to embrace it and that all these little quirks and mistakes and things that I need to fix with myself are a working progress because I will never finish adjusting myself. I will be a better me and I will be with someone ready starting in the next stage.

I am hoping I'll feel proud of myself for living the life I want and doing work and activities that are meaningful to me and give back in some way. I'm hoping I have more clarity about the direction my life is taking and I'm REALLY hoping Scott and I are both in good shape mentally and physically. I also hope I'll be looking back at Colin & Jesse's wedding with lovely memories!

Excited and proud. And I hope I can be patient with myself and see the growth rather than see just the written words that I may or may not have achieved.

My goal is to feel like I am doing ever better, improving my own life and the lives of those around me. I want to feel like I am turning the tide towards the way I would like the world to be. I want to not feel so overextended as the autumn tends to make me. I hope I'll have said no more than I have in 2025.

i bet i'll have NO recollection of what i wrote! i have no expectations, hopes about a year from now, except to be here and be healthy.

I hope to be more confident in better economic shape, and maybe in a great romantic relationship. Oh my goodness, that would be awesome.

I sure hope the world will be better, that war will have ceased in the Middle East, that I will have more mental space to do other things rather than focusing on the hatred we are seeing every day. I hope my life will be even richer with supporters and friends, and that I have created beauty from it all.

I hope I will have a new job - either at Perelman or something else. I also hope I get better at not letting my kids’ dad get in my head

I hope I'll think, wow that was a hard time, I'm so glad time has kept moving me onward. I hope I can move with a little more mindfulness, a little more intention, through this upcoming year.

I hope I feel calmer and like I've been able to move through some work in my life, not just stay afloat. I want to feel more connected to people who share my goals, so I don't feel torn between socializing and work. Things are already better than last year, though! You need to find victories where you can.

I hope my community remains tolerant. I am hopeful that the world at large makes a move towards more tolerance and understanding.

Mostly I hope for more calm, confidence, and peace in my life. I can't control or influence what's happening outside my home. I can try to influence what's is happening inside my home, and I can control myself--so that is where I'm focusing my efforts. This year was full of painful surprises and some time to repair, recover, and grow is surely and sorely needed. That's what I hope to nurture in the beginning of this upcoming year.

I hope I have a little more clarity about what my role is in this moment writ large, and maybe a little more energy to lean into it

I think I will remember the relief that I have of knowing that that incredibly difficult year is over. I also wonder which of my predictions and fears will have become reality.

I hope I am alive and healthy physically and mentally. I have no idea what I will be experiencing next year at this time; however, I am in for the great daring adventure of life. I would love to feel content with what I am able to leave behind -- for my children, for my clients, for my students. I hope that I can feel I have lived this year and my entirelife with reverence and joy, with optimism and innocence.

I just hope things aren't massively worse with our country, or with Israel. I hope I will have completed another good set of services with CCI. I hope Randy and I will be happy and in good health.

I hope to have put this illness behind me and find a way to show my gratitude to all those who helped me.

How do I think I will feel in the future? How do I think I will feel about something that isn’t happening or hasn’t happened? What if I drop all time and tune into what I’m feeling now? I’m feeling curious, inspired, peaceful, wealthy, healthy, supported, loved, cared for, creative, happy, joyous and free. I am living a life beyond my wildest dreams. I am grateful for everyone and everything in my life. This is my future created in the now.

I hope that I have taken action on the things I've written and not spent another year just thinking about them. I hope I feel closer to God and my community. I hope that the first feeling I have when I think about my country is no longer fear.

I like what I said last year. Even if I don't tackle every objective I set out in these answers I hope I grant myself some grace and forgiveness for what I did or did not do.

I think if we decided for whatever reason not to have another baby, I don't want to read back at these answers and feel sad for myself or a deep resentment. Hopefully if we decide that, I'm also convinced of the decision, and can move forward without grief. I hope when I read about the things I'd like to be different, I will have made those changes (like making friends in this new neighborhood or getting more efficient with AI).

I so hope that I won't feel the way that I do in regards to what the government is doing to us. I also hope my podcast endeavors come to fruition and I'm on the air everyday of the week.

Settled, excited, inspired, home, accepted, peaceful

I hope I’m Feeling lighter about my personal life and enjoying how I divide my time between work and play. I hope I have a big trip planned, perhaps the Galapagos?! I really hope I’m feeling more comfortable and hopeful about the future of our country and democracy. At this moment, I have great anxiety about free speech, fair elections, and using the military in our own country.

I hope I'll be more grounded and calm, less anxious and worried. I hope I'll have more confidence, less concern about what strangers think about my Jewishness and Zionism/support of Israel as a nation. I hope I'll have more self-motivation, less resignation, less impulse to avoid doing things and go to bed. I hope my health improves. I hope I'll be renovating my apartments. I hope I'll have sex again or at least find a romantic partner and not be so alone.

I think I will feel disillusioned. There is so much nastiness in the world, and I am afraid with midterm elections coming up it will get worse. At the same time, I hope to have a more devil-will-care attitude, spent more quality time with friends and my children.

A sense of dread perhaps but I hold out that I was some sort of intuitive / psychic and my 2025 thoughts somewhat came true in 2026. I think holding myself account to my most optimistic, positive self and her thoughts helps with this.

Hopefully not disappointed and very satisfied

I'd like to feel accomplished and settled in myself. I'd like to feel as though I'd put into practice the lessons I'm currently learning about showing up for myself consistently and THAT making its impact on how I feel about the core of my self-worth. I hope I'll have met someone who values and loves me in ways that I appreciate and understand; someone who can also show up for me the way that I show up for myself.

I hopefully will have graduated and taken and passed the bar! And travelled or have plans to travel. I don’t think I’ll feel more settled, I think I will be dealing with the same struggles of balance. As a result of answering these questions, I’m not sure. I hope things are in a better place with my family. I am not confident they will be, but I guess I can try to bring my revolutionary optimism to my family dynamics in my dad's honor :) Six words: marriage family fascism organize grow love

I hope I’ll be more widely traveled and have a new friend or two.

I read the answer from last year and I would say the same thing except that I feel so much more overwhelmed by what I see happening in my country that the problems of managing other people's emotions are almost manageable in comparison. I am still incredibly frustrated by these personal situations, but they're not the same level of danger as what I see happening in my country. What do I hope will be different? I hope my country will wake the fuck up and recognize that we can and must do better, that we do not want to exchange our freedom for a dictatorship, that government spending benefits all of us and cutting off that spending harms all of us, and so much more. Answering these questions hasn't changed my thinking about all this. Answering questions is how I take stock and measure my progress, but these are words and I'm not the only one saying them. What we need are actions. Given what I see happening, my hope for things to be different seems almost laughable, but what else can I hold onto?

Well what I thought last year hasn't exactly come to pass but I did gear towards it and that's already a big step in the right direction. Change takes time, especially when the problems took decades to culminate, and the accumulation of so many small successes have definitely shown up in my life as improved health and I feel that in 1 year, with the current testing of the right stuff and the appropriate adjustments instead of guessing all the time give me a lot of hope that in 1 year I'll be in a completely different space. Especially since I left behind the job that kept me anchored in a bad place and the "I need to get out of here" feeling is gone, one of the major issues has been solved even if not the way I thought it would. I hope in 1 year I will have a thriving business that makes me feel aligned with my values, gives me freedom to live and work where I desire and pays me an amount of money that lets me spend the way I wish without fear, growing my wealth and assets even more efficiently than I do today. Happy, relaxed, glowingly healthy, fulfilled.

I hope I will have lightened my burden by being honest, by pursuing chein and chessed, by turning every day, by using G-d's greatest gift, time itself, in a way that is truthful to the uniqueness of me. I know there will also be heartbreak, because we are only human. Fallible and small, dust of the earth. I will stumble throughout the year. And I hope I will keep the courage to pursue greatness, and to use G-d's gift to heal one piece of this fractured world, because we are dust but also the breath of G-d. Thinking about these questions reminded me of one of Rabbi Sack's zt"ll teachings, "That is what Judaism is: a life of love and a love of life. All the rest is commentary." May my answers and this reflection be for me a reminder.

I think I'm just hoping that I've made progress and aren't answering in the same way. This year, a lot of my answers echoed what I wrote in 2024, so it feels a little like I've stagnated.

I think I'll feel like "same ol', same ol'." Pretty sure nothing will have changed at all.

Looking back at these questions year after year, encourage his feelings of accomplishment and discipline. hope can grow into feelings of certainty that could create magical manifestations so many life scripts seem to repeat themselves. these questions help seek the successful stories. There seems to be a glitch on showing me the bonus questions so I’m gonna answer it here. Six word prediction for next year. Zaney yearning Xenophobic Wonderland Vital understanding, unification ultimatum utopian underworld

I hope I will have remembered and acted on what I said - I hope to be thinner and as happy

I hope I will have got closer to working out how to be of real use to my daughter and her family, especially in having more time with my grandson as he grows.

I'm hoping these questions will motivate and give me the courage to engage in activities to improve my physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. I think that would give me better balance and a feeling of wholeness

Hopefully I will be healthier and worry less. I hope the world finds peace finally.

I hope I'm happy. I hope I am building a relationship and figuring out my career path. I hope my family is happy and healthy. I still hope the hostages are home and the war will be over.

Questions are fun to answer, but I don't really think they do anything beyond fun. As to my last year answer, I described how I was still with a boyfriend I kept breaking up with and thought that was a good thing. Glad to say year later, I with someone different and SO MUCH better! I tried to answer bonus qustion in 6 words, but it not letting me get to that screen. So, I do it here: Autocracy wins, but we will revolt!

I sincerely hope that I am as satisfied with my life as I am right now. Even if some parts of the year have been difficult, I would hope that I feel that I have noticed and appreciated the joy of living enough to provide a sense of contentment over that.

I hope i'll be more confident and self aware. I hope I'll have improved my sense of self worth

By this time next year, I think I'll feel even more secure in who I am and where I'm going. I hope I feel safe as a Jewish Mexican-American woman living in the US. This 10Q practice always helps me set intentions that seem to come true, so from my fingertips/the vault to God's ears....!

I pray I will feel a bit of ease, the "everything will be all right" feeling I used to have even in the worst of times.

I hope to the gods that I look back on my 2025 self as sad and traumatized, and that my 2026 self is living in a happier, better world, with sane leaders who believe in facts. I hope I'm more confident in new challenges at work. I hope I stay on the path of pursuing joy and helping others, and although the bad parts of life make me feel angry or sad, that I can keep them in only a portion of each day, and save the majority of my time for appreciating life and my loved ones.

This was the first 10Q since 2019 where I didn't know where I'd be this time next year and that was such a weird feeling. The Days of Awe really got me this year, and I hope I'll look back at this time fondly knowing that it all worked out. I'm a little nervous for the state of the world/country next year. So much has fallen apart since January and it stresses me out to think what September 2026 will be like. I feel like a bad person for hoping IT will happen before then.... but I can atone for that next year :)

One year from now I hope to feel peace with retirement and to be on a blissful path of wellness. I want to continue my morning routine. I want to lose weight. I’d like to find a satisfying volunteer position.With these intentions I think I’ll feel proud and content.

I hope that there will be a lasting negotiated settlement between Israel and Palestine, that people will wake up to the danger of Trumpianism, and take necessary action to mitigate the harm. I hope my family is well, that my nephew is flourishing and my brother and sister-in- laws as well. Aging brings acceptance about the inevitable mishaps which befall us.Hopefully we can adjust, enjoy and be grateful for our many blessings.

The older I get, the more uncertain I feel about the future—both on a personal and on a global scale. I am so aware of my own vulnerability and the possibilities of illness, accidents, or other problems that can derail us, our friends, kids, and grandkids. I hope that I will continue to dwell in gratitude, nurture loving relationships, play music, dance, and exercise regularly so that I can weather the inevitable bumps in the road. Taking the time to answer these questions, can help me stay grounded in my values, and remember my abundant blessings.

I'm hoping I'll be more self-aware, and I'll start saying no to more things (activities, commitments, email newsletters) unless I am super super into them. Gotta figure out a way to scale back the information flying at my brain 24/7 and get better about just shutting stuff out to lead a calmer life.

This is a tough question, but as always I hope I have more financial freedom and independence.

I imagine I will be very concerned about the future of our democracy and the outcome of the midterms. I hope I will have found a balance of political engagement and self care — staying strong in body and mind, making room for creativity, and cherishing family and dear friends.

I am in a depressingly similar physical situation - trapped in my marriage - but I have begun to build a pathway out and I actually do feel like my life is radically different. Oct 16 changed my whole life because I reconnected with Soumyajit. He is the person that pushed me to get to this place. In my heart of hearts, what I want for September 2026 is to be in NYC with him. I'm not so sure that is how it will play out, though. We are currently casual and long-distance. I hope whatever happens, he and I still have the bond we have always had, even if it isn't romantic, and I hope that I am free of this marriage. All I want is to not have to wake up next to Peter ever again. I WILL get out!

I just hope there will be a next year for me to look back at these answers. Otherwise, copy/paste from the last however many years... "Copy/pasting YET AGAIN from last year, and the year before, and possibly even the year before that: I hope I will feel better about this year’s answers that I did about last year's. Reading last year’s responses has been gutting because not much has changed. It all still feels so out of my control. So I hope fore the same as last year: relief that things are better, kindness toward myself for having been in such a dark place, and regaining some sense of agency over my life.

I hope that I will look back on the past year and be glad I retired. As of right now I might be casual but I do not like this new company at all and would prefer to retire fully.

When September 2026 comes and I receive these answers back, I think I’ll feel grateful for the chance to pause and take stock of where I was, what I was holding, and how I was growing in this season of life. I imagine I’ll also feel tender toward myself, knowing how much I navigate and how hard I try to live with intention. I hope that by then, I’ll feel even more grounded in the practices I’ve been naming here: protecting my energy, prioritizing inner peace over external validation, and leaning into curiosity and compassion. I hope my workshops will keep evolving in powerful ways, and that my family life will feel steady and joyful, full of connection rather than pressure. More than anything, I hope that the act of answering these questions has given me a kind of compass. That when I look back, I’ll see not just what I feared or struggled with, but how I chose to respond, and that those choices shaped me into someone more peaceful, present, and aligned with what truly matters.

NYC. Don’t chicken out. It’s the next big step. The next leap of faith. When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.

I assume I will be better. I am definitely better off than in 2024. I hope to have a nicer job and having more fun experiences with women and my friends. I hope I can somehow be les hard on myself, but I really hope the job situation clears up.

I am proud of myself for showing up this past year, in completing the 10Q and beyond. I hope that I am able to look at this year's rosh hashanah and yom kippur through a reflective lens, especially in a few weeks or months when the bubble on the time pops. I hope that I will be able to meet in person with other jews to experience the high holidays next year, whether at BJ or not. I hope that future Eve will be able to look back and say Aha! Yes, we did that. Even if the overall goal is not achieved, little by little. heart, ttfn.

When 2026 rolls around, I hope life in the US and the world will be peaceful, with focus on love for one another, kindness, respect & regard for all life on earth and elsewhere -- people, planet(s), animal, sky, sun, stars, moon, galaxies, universe, wouldn't it be so utterly wonderful if humans could find a way to co-exist, to take care of each other and the earth upon which we live and depend.

I think I will feel better in general. My health will be much better and I will feel strong and with good energy. I think I will feel more at peace, clearer and lighter. I really very much hope I will feel lighter and clearer, haberle dado la vuelta a mis bloqueos principales y que eso me genere un estado existencial con mucha más paz, plenitud y sentido.

My greatest hope is that son and daughter in law are the proud parents of my second grandchild. Born safe and sound and almost a year old. My hope is we are in a financially more secure place. Reflection is always important and it allows for growth!!

Thinking about last year's answer to this, it's hard to not reflect on both how long and how short one year is. It makes sense that l noted a year ago: "Some things are things I've overcome or achieved or internalized, and some things I'm still stuck in. All the things have the same weight it did then, even if I've come out the other side." A year ago is still pretty close. I think we expect a lot of ourselves in a year. A lot of growth, experiences, letting go... So much has changed for me but also, so much is the same. Most of the bigger changes this year were somewhat out of my control, and were very difficult and sad. And I'm still struggling from things that happened a year ago at this time, but I'm also still learning from them. I don't want to feel bad and be hard on myself in a year if I come back to this year's answers, or any year's answers, and still feel like I'm in the same place on a lot of things. Why wouldn't I be? I'm the same person. Many of us face setbacks and propulsion, and setbacks again. Many of us find ourselves derailed or stopped in our path -- physically ill, burnt out, depressed, dissociating, affected by the world -- for longer than we would like to be. Many of us are always going to want to be a better parent, friend, and partner. Many of us are always going to want to be more productive, creative, healthy, and true to ourselves. Some of those things work together to create flow, some get in each other's way -- most of us can't be or do all the things at once and be proud of ourselves in every area. Last year at this time, I had a very productive year in my career, and I was disappointed in my parenting. This past year, the pendulum swung in the other direction: I eased up on progress I really needed so that I could be more present with my child and my dogs and the other people I love. I spent a lot of time this year guilty and disappointed and angry with myself for dropping the ball on my business and finances. But writing this out, I see I poured myself into things that felt necessary, and in some cases, I did only what I could bring myself to do, and maybe I can have an easier time forgiving myself for where I feel short. I suppose "balance" should be the buzzword going forward. But that is very hard to achieve and maintain. So we're probably going to be striving for the same things we were three years ago, because even looking back, it's hard to measure tangible progress when the desire -- to be better and do better -- is still the same. Some years I feel bad about that. Some years I feel somewhat vindicated that things I cared about/worried about/wanted/wanted to let go of then are the same things I'm so concerned about now -- as if it shows that what was important to me still stands, and that it wasn't a passing phase. So hopefully I can spend this year going easier on myself. And going easier on others. I hope things in my career will be a lot different, that I'll have gotten over the hump. I hope to be a parent that enforces more discipline and yet is calmer and kinder. I hope next year finds me more reliable and regulated, just as much as I hope next year finds me more adventurous and prone to listening to myself and attending to my needs. I hope the state of the world doesn't derail me, just as I hope to help affected communities in ways that I can. Can some of these things merge without canceling each other out? I hope so. I guess I'll see.

I hope I will feel enthusiastic and hopeful. I hope the things that perplexed me will have become clear. I hope I will have continued to lean into my call, and will be proud of the work I've done, even (and especially) when it feels hard to have done. I hope my relationships are strong and grounded. I hope my sense of self continues to be foundational to the work, and my life, and that I continue exploring who I am and how I show up in this moment in history. And above all: I hope I'll be here to reflect on all of it.

Well, I think I will be fine. I don't know if I will still be working, but I expect to be fine either way. I hope I am more at peace with myself and the world, and more accepting of whatever comes. I hope that I have challenging projects to work on and interesting people to talk to.

I think I'll feel similarly about a lot. I still hope that I will be more content and less stressed and worried in my life. Thank you for the opportunity to think about and express myself with your questions! :)

I think I'll feel surprised about what felt important at this time a year ago and I'm hopeful that I'll feel proud of where I'm at. I'm hopeful that as I continue to reflect on myself and these questions that I can grow and become even more confident in who I am and where I'm meant to be in the next year.

The most important thing to me is that all three of my children are happy and healthy! I cannot think of anything that I want more. I have to say these last 24 hours have been my personal worst because of my eating. Yesterday afternoon I was totally out of control, did not think about what I was doing, but kept shoving peanut butter and crackers, and whatever else I could find into my mouth. It was made worse this morning when I went and got on the scale and found out that not only did I not lost any weight, but I had gained another pound and a half in the week. This is very distressing to me! I’m must find a way to get back to 139. I felt so much better. I’m doing very good with my exercise and even my eating habits are good most times. I’m obviously slipping enough that the bad eating times far away the good eating times. I need to find a way to honor my body and impose self control on my eating habits. The rest of my life is almost perfect! Here’s to a hopeful coming year in all these matters. Please God!

I’m always excited to answer the questions and reflect on my year and look towards my future. I’m nervous at times to read my responses because I worry I didn’t push myself enough. I hope I moved forward unafraid and did everything I could to improve myself.

I hope that our country will be in the process of evading fascism. If there is some progress, I imagine I will feel excellent. It would be a bonus if I managed to accomplish one or two of the personal goals I mentioned in earlier days. If we HAVE fallen into a fascist pit( perhaps elections are cancelled or districts are so gerrymandered that many votes don’t count), I will be mourning with millions of others. Perhaps I will take small pleasure in having accomplished something personal, but I will realize how little it means in the scheme of things. I hope I will have a healthy perspective.

I'm hopeful that writing down these answers will help me focus on doing the things I need to do to improve my life in the coming year. I expect to be wealthier, have better romantic relationships, and give full expression to my musical talent.

Probably disappointed. Hopefully less involved in self-sabotage and more regulated emotionally, focusing on the present and future. Hopefully stronger and able to stand up and be smarter in arguments with others, or just knowing when to walk away. Hopefully better at knowing what to say and calling others out when they try to turn something I am feeling or thinking into a debate. FUCK THESE FUCKING FUCKS! I hate it when someone says "You're just being controlling" when I am simply stating a preference or desire to have or not have something done or said to me or my belongings. Fuck. And, I hope I have a lot more money, my house is fixed up, I'm making a lot of great music, and I'm doing well and am happy and my partner and I are getting along and she's not trying to gaslight me into whatever the fuck and maybe still actually wants to be with me. Or I'm at least happy and don't care about her if she leaves. I need good things in my life. I need strength and inner confidence. I would like to be with people who are positive, not negative.

I hope the world (the U.S. specifically) has changed course for the better. I hope we have a Congress that can more effectively fight rapid climate change and encourage more polite and productive discourse. I hope we have leaders who make the right choices based on compassion and love, instead of power and greed. I also will have just sent my all and only children to college, so I'm curious how I'm going to feel next year. Am I just having a hard time with the anticipation? Or am I going to be a wreck like Jennifer Garner and Kim Holderness? I will be looking to them for clues to my future self. Good luck, me! I'll be praying for you, and I'll do everything in my power to help prepare you for this time next year 😘

I have no idea how I'll feel, but I must say, I didn't get to 10Q last year (2024) and I'm a little disappointed, so I hope I'll be glad to at least see where my brain is. I hope I will feel settled and at least somewhat fulfilled in a job. Other than that, I'm open. Maybe the state of the world will be better, but I'm a bit pessimistic on that front.

Similar to last year, I'll probably feel like the challenges I'm currently going through of parenting a two year old are yesterday's news, and that the challenges of parenting a THREE year old will be my new focus! I also know that whatever will happen with our "fertility journey," we'll know more then than we do know about a potential second kiddo and whether that's going to be possible. I am very curious to know where we will be this time next year, but I just hope that whatever shakes out we will be happy and at peace with our family. In terms of the larger world, I worry about what further damage the Trump administration will do over the next year. Also, I'll officially be in my 40s!! I hope that I'll be feeling positive about the start of this new decade.

I don’t think I’ll think about these questions in between- but I am struck by how much movement there has been on them in a year. I’m going to trust that I don’t have to over-effort things, as I often struggle with. I’m hoping to continue leaning into enoughness and trusting that enough has been set in motion that it will contour to work even as I sleep, as I make mistakes, and maybe even after I die.

I hope my pessimism was wrong, and everything will be okay.

I really like my life right now and I’m very happy with it. If I can continue to be this happy, and feel so content, that would be wonderful.

Gosh, I'm hoping that loads of things will be different. I'll be married, I'll have written and made/painted tonnes, I'll hopefully have a new job or other work situation that makes me feel good, I'll be looking forward to some sort of honeymoon or about to go on it, maybe I'll do a series of honeymoons haha. I'll feel even more solid in my friendships, perhaps have accumulated some new ones - there's just so much possibility. I hope to be happy and optimistic about the future and empowered to continue to make positive change in my own life and the world. I think it'll be interesting to look back on this precipice stage, and hopefully I won't be disappointed by how things turned out. I have no idea how they will. I just hope that it will be a good, great life change, and that I'll be happy. And also that the world gets better too.

I'm not optimistic about the next twelve months. Ask me on November 4, 2026 how I feel. My hope is that our family does not suffer an additional tragedy during the next twelve months and that 2026 does not successfully say "hold my beer".

I think I will still have clarity around Palestine but I hope what will be different is that more people brave enough to condemn the perpetrators of genocide will be around me. I also hope I’ll feel more at ease about the changes to aligning my values I have made.

I hope to feel proud and relieved. I hope that all beings I love are healthy and well, and that I’ve continued to grow in alignment with my values and wisdom. I hope that tending to myself feels more natural and a given, that faith and trust are substantially stronger than fear and anxiety.

Satisfied

I hope that my mom will be doing well and I will have more time and energy to engage in more joyful experiences. I hope I will feel relieved that this era of our lives has passed, and we are on to something new.

I hope I'll be replenished, that I'll have some justice. I hope I'll be healthy (physically, mentally, emotionally) and that my kids and family will be healthy and happy. I hope these fucking fascists are gone and that PALESTINE IS FREE!

I feel like there's so much change in the air I can't even predict what might happen. I bet next year will be VERY different. But good.

Hard to know or imagine how I will feel; I've been doing this for 15 years and as much as it's interesting to see last year's answers, I might be desensitized to seeing them each year. I do hope that some of the things I've said I wanted for myself come to fruition. Maybe along the way I can dig a little deeper into intentionally creating things for my life that are good experiences and healthy for me.

I hope to be pleasantly surprised by my growth in the past year. But fear that I will be circling the same thoughts without any forward movement. Themes: health, self awareness, and belovedness by God

I hope i will feel better about myself because i will have worked hard on improving myself over the next year.

I really hope I will be holding a healthy baby girl in my arms and spending time with the girls.

I hope I will be able to say "Yasher Koach" to myself for meeting the challenges I am setting out for this coming year. I hope I will feel stronger and more resilient by following through on my plan of action, not just coming up with great ideas.

I hope I'll feel proud of myself, connected to past me. As I get older, I seem to change less from year to year. I hope I feel that same pride in being alive that I do now. I hope I hold on to the fact that whatever happens, I have myself to rely on, and I am capable of so much more than I can ever imagine. I hope I see that strength, that resolve, that fight. I want to continue to embody that this year.

When last years questions were revealed this time around, the thing that struckmemostwas how had no F**ing CLUE what the year would actually hold. So I can't predict anything. I do however enjoy the opportunity to look back and reflect, and perhaps it's given me some focus over the years.

I'm not sure where the country will be, but think I'll be happy & healthy, living a good life. I hope I'm making some kind of art, engaging with friends, and loving my life.

I hope I feel proud, and see progress. I hope I am stronger, braver and living even more fully and being more loving.

I don't know how I'll feel if I hit all my goals, great. If not, I'll feel bad.

I guess if there is one thing that I hope would be different, it would be the political climate that we are currently living in. Four years ago, I never would’ve imagined what is happening now with rolling back peoples rights, letting racism, elitism, and fascism, infect the majority of the United States. I think back to myself as a seventh grader taking an American civics class in a red state. My teacher was a black man who had previously been a police officer. I admired him so much and felt that I, a young girl in suburban Oklahoma, could be President of the United States. Never in 1 million years that I think that the US would go backwards in its way of thinking. But here we are. I ended up becoming a writer. In my 20s, I was able to say whatever I wanted. I wrote poetry and lyrics. Into my 30s, I wrote opinion pieces. Today I’m unsure about what to put out on the Internet because I think we are entering to it phase of, not just censorship, but punishment for speaking about how you feel if it’s in opposition to the current president. So yeah, if I hope anything has changed it’s that I have either moved me and my family to a different country that does uphold its promises of equality and care for its people, or perhaps it’s simply that this current stronghold of our totalitarian government crumbles to the ground, and that these people are held accountable for what they are doing right now. accountable for what they are doing right now. I’m disappointed that 10Q isn’t doing the predictions. It has been one of my favorite questions each year. So, I’m still going to write my predictions here: Enormous waterfall or water going off of a cliff 32-36 something to do with the military Aryan brothers dressed in black uniforms? 23178651 Asher in a light colored button down shirt August get a boyfriend Mike starts unusual side hobby Me. Something having to do with an envelope an important envelope.

I'll be with my child at home. They will be discovering the "family business," teaching, in some way. I hope we'll be getting along as well as, or better than, we always have. That's actually the person I want to explore and investigate more: the adult my child is becoming. I think I can help make it work by asking permission whenever I want something, even if I think it's a need and not a want. I hope my book is better, almost in shape to begin shopping around. I hope my financial future is on solid ground, in fertile soil, all those metaphors. I hope the weather is as beautiful as it is today. I hope everything else is as beautiful as it is today. I'd like to be more thankful and less fearful. And I hope the war is over, and the Palestinians have reason to be more hopeful, and the hostage families have reason to be more thankful. We'll see.

I think I'll feel grateful of where I was and how I got there to that point. I hope to feel more grounded about my life, in terms of time management, Jewish practice, and balance.

Confused. I’ll forget I did them. But I was also hoping that something in my life will have changed; I’ll have tried a new avenue or crossed a new milestone. Hopefully, I’ll have engaged with my creativity by then.

I hope that I will feel more confident in my abilities to find new clients and work with others. and that I will be seen as/and feel like a vital part of my church community and local community

I hope I feel like it was good year, that things feel more stable. But even if they don't, I hope I continue to feel surrounded by love and joy and that my family is healthy and happy

I really, really, really hope that the country stabilizes a bit, and that a certain few people die. I know that is a pretty wretched thing to write, but it's true.

I hope that I'll be happy, relaxed, content, and satisfied with the changes I've made. This is a really big year coming up with a likely international move. I hope that at this time next year I'll be able to look back at the move and say "This was the right choice and I'm happy where I am." I also hope that I'll be able to look at the various resolutions that I've made and see that I've actually improved on them. I did since last year. Now let's keep it going.

I honestly hope that I can stay in this mindset I’m in right now. It’s been a meaningful shift in how I approach my relationships the last month of reflection, and I hope I can spend this next year in a similarly spiritual place: honoring my loved ones, my body, and committing to careful and diligent work to making this world better. I hope next year, I can reflect on a year of judging myself less, and on a year of meaningful relationships that are flowering in my work and outside of it. I hope I am with my grandmother more, and have even more open and honest relationships in my life.

Last year I pointed out that there was no way to answer this question until we saw what happened in the presidential election. So now it's been a lost year (at least we're not dead or disappeared, like so many others) with the dangers coming to a fever pitch. I can hope that by next year, we are once again a nation of law & order, but I know we've lost our standing in the world and will probably never get it entirely back. And that's not even thinking about Israel/Gaza and Ukraine, among others. So, I have to hope that next year we even have the ability to do this online and thus look at our previous answers while answering again. I will grieve the lost time, and the horror inflicted on so many, but be grateful to have the record of how bad it got and how it was building back up again. Or, we'll all be scrabbling to stay alive and not finding the time, energy, or access to answer the questions here at all. Time will tell.

I'm hopeful that I will feel less scared to be living in the US. I hope there will no longer be a dictator/cult leader in top power. Or I may no longer be living in the US, so I may actually have a future. I know thinking about and answering these questions keeps me present while reflective.

I hope to be in a more relaxed place. I hope to be able to find a way to make more money or to spend less so I do not have to work so much. I hope to look back and say: Yes, it was tough last year but now it is easier. I also hope to look back at my meaningful relationships and feel happy, satisfied with my connections and trusting that they are lasting connections.

I will pray, fight, and hope that the fascist regime is ousted by the American People! That minimally, the law holds, the vote takes place and a majority of Democrats in the House and the Senate hold the criminals ruining our democracy, violating our constitutional rights, accountable with criminal charges, formal trials and sentencing. That my belief in the people as a whole and the preponderance of the law, and no person detained or imprisoned without evidence and just cause will truly prevail. Twice I predicted or prayed for a woman in the White House and a minority, not a majority of the people, already owned by the MAGA's, along with our corrupt electoral college elected a despot, now a fascist preening wanna be King! So holding out hope here is difficult at best. But yes-that next year at this time indications will be that the majority of American People, who believe in our flag, our constitution, the rights of citizens and human rights of people will be prevailing and that the corrupt, illegal, fascist regime has summarily been kicked down the road like the can of worms it is.

We'll see if a year of slightly more focused study imbues me with a sense of competence or even erudition, or if it just leaves me even more desperately clutching at fragments of information as they float away from me. I hope I'll feel more connected to people, though!

I hope i feel happier, i hope i feel happy with me and with someone who cares for me and that i care for him too. In peace. In love. And my Mother is feeling fine, secure and motivated. In result of answering this questions, i hope i take action and get what i want.

I hope that I am hopeful. For Jews. For Israel. For our Jewish lives and the lives of Jews around the world. The constant worry and anxiety suck my Jewish joy. I hope Ive found ways to celebrate being Jewish. I hope my stamina continues to improve and I can become more and more active - just on a day to day comfort basis. I hope I can spend more time with my siblings and my close friends.

I hope that my annotated version of Avinu Malkeinu has come to pass: Show us the way to a year of goodness (and good trouble). Renew our belief that the world can be better (and we must all help in our own ways). Restore our faith in life (and democracy). Restore our faith in you (and the power of kindness to triumph over hatred).

I fear I could be in a worse place in life than I am now. I sincerely hope its better. But most of all I hope that I have enough trust in myself to not worry so much about the future. That nevermind whats happening Im trusting myself to find a way. Life is long enough, and Im strong enough, smart enough, tough enough, loving enough.

I'm old enough to realize that some years are better than others and some are worse. For the most part, I expect that a year from now I will look back with a mix of pride and regret. Some things will have gone well, some poorly. Some things will be better and some will be worse. I hope that the balance leans slightly better. Either way, I'll likely still be sitting here looking out my window at a cloudy sky, with some chores and some delights ahead in my day. Unless the US is fully fascist. Then I will have realized that I've lived through/am in the midst of an historic and horrible time.

I suspect that a year from now I'll feel even more reflective about these questions than I do now because I'll be reading them following my 60th birthday. I am hopeful that I'll have a sense of peace about the state of marriage and what that means for my life. I hope, wish and pray that all of my children are healthy and well, growing, learning and thriving. I hope I am still able to travel the world, learning about and experiencing new places. I expect that I will still have close friends with whom I enjoy traveling, eating drinking and talking to. I wish for my work life to feel fulfilling and purposeful. One of my biggest prayers though is that democracy in the US still be intact, that our fundamental freedoms be protected and the damage done to so many US citizens and people around the world be contained and reversible. Sadly, I doubt this will be so, but it is my wish for the world. Tikkun Olam.

i'll hopefully have been at my job for over a year and gotten a better sense of how to be good at my job after my role and company switch! maybe i'll be working towards engagement. i think it's pretty likely my bf will have moved in.

I know I'll feel desolate. It's hard to predict. I'm quite an angry person and have been working on letting stuff go and not just not being angry but just letting it loose and leaving stuff I'm angry with, behind. But as this year progresses, so will my husband's cancer, and anger seems to be the first emotional port of call for me. So I suspect I'll be angry. I think I'll feel lost. Like I've been through a small personal war, and I've come out on top while my husband dies and loses. I suspect what will be different is that I will spend time mourning and planning for life without him, which will entail trying to find a way to the kind of life I think I can live without him. And it's not the one we built together in our home. I'm turning 40 in 2 days, I want nothing after him but quiet, in nature. So this time next year I know I'll be figuring out how to move back to Norway, learning to drive, working it all out as an escape route that is probably a very very bad idea. Either that or preparing to move to Ireland to be with my parents which would be the second worst idea.

I hope the war in Gaza has stopped, the hostages returned and a 2 state solution is being put into place. I hope I feel safer, more at ease in the world and in myself. I hope for good mental and physical health for me, my family and friends. It’s not too much to ask, is it?

I hope next September I feel grounded, and feel centered in my power. I hope I will read back on these answers and appreciate the journey I've been on, and feel happy with where I am now.

I hope that I will feel more hopeful about the state of the world. In Israel/Palestine, Sudan, the US, Europe and globally 2025 was filled with horrific acts of violence, oppression, polarization and demonization. I will pray for and work towards achieve a better future for everyone and future generations. I hope when I read this, I will have kept my promise. I’m glad that I organized the a 90th birthday party for my husband that I’d hoped I would when I answered this question in 2024.

This is the 7th year in a row that I answer the 10Q, and I'm very grateful for the path that my answers have shown, year after year. I think that when next September comes, I will consider what my intentions were for the coming year, and I'll see how much has come true, and in what ways life will have surprised me. Of course I plan to answer the 10Q for many years to come, but I'm also considering how three days ago a healthy, younger friend of mine went to church and died there during the service, just like that, she moved to the room next door, as some of our friends say. So, when the vaults open, and I'll see these answer, I will certainly be extremely happy to still be on this Earth, hoping that's the case!

I hope to have taken at least 3 steps forward and maybe just one backward.

First, I hope I am well physically. I am now at year 9 of 10Q. I can begin to look back and see simultaneously how long and short one-year is. I hope I feel like I have made progress on personal growth, and I am excited to see how I view these questions differently as I age.

I don't expect any major changes this year, except I sincerely hope the good guys are able to get the current USA leadership and administration removed and imprisoned/jettisoned, including all three branches of government and all their lackeys, and eliminate ICE and all the fascism that has taken over our country. Install Kamala Harris and her crew as the rightful leaders, take over the House, Senate and Supreme Court, remove all child molesters, liars, frauds, hypocrites, grifters, con artists, criminals and thieves. The rightful leaders will all then have work for decades to undo all the damage the current group has done.

I hope I feel like I’ve done enough. I hope I remember that I tried to answer the questions. I hope I recall how hard this year has been and how I so hope 2026 is better. But I miss mama and so better will always be a redefined, less pure version of what was.

It's hard to say what next year we will bring. I think I'll look back on my responses and smile on some of them, thinking of where my thoughts were at that time and also having solace for the hard time that I was going through and really resonating with that. How I'm starting off this new year, being unemployed by working in a job that really doesn't serve me or my passion or what I can contribute to in this world, it's a scary thought to to know what the next steps are. But it's also an exciting one. This year, I'm believing there's opportunity for defining and forming the more authentic self, to what I want to do, however, I relate to others and relationships (family/friends/colleagues). I'm hoping that my heart is softened a bit and that my mind is a little bit more calmer and really feeling what I am feeling and not to disregard it. I haven't talked about anything professionally, and that's a part of my life that I feel that I'm uncertain about, but I do have some plans and ideas of what I do want to do and what I believe I can excel at. I also hope that I do meet a person that understands me, I can enjoy the company of him, get along with one another, have adventures with. I understand that certain elements may be out of our control, but I will do everything that I can in my control to make an effort and attempt. If that comes at a price of hurt, sadness, or aloneness as a result of putting myself out there and listening to my needs, I'd rather have experience that cause I know it's bringing me closer to the person that I will be with as my companion. I love to love.

I hope the world is a better place than it seems like it's going to be. That Canada is still free and sovereign.

I fear I’ll be devastated, full of self-hatred and regret. I have so many good things in hand right now—an interesting job, a long-term relationship with a wonderful man, a mostly healthy body—and I can see myself so clearly sabotaging all of those gifts over the winter and spring due to my own self-hatred, perfectionism, pessimism, and anxiety. I hope I’m wrong.

I don't know. I hope I'm less fatigued, less depressed. More hopeful. It's really close to last year's answer, when I hoped voters would see through the lies and deceptions of the Republicans. I was wrong. That makes me sad and exhausted.

My hope is that I will be in a stronger position financially, that I will have hit my stride professionally, and that I will have a strong community of friends around me.

I hope this darkness will be a distant memory and I will be so exhausted from work and family that I will be able to chuckle that I ever had any doubts in myself.

I think I’ll feel a mix of tenderness and curiosity. Maybe pride too — that I had the courage to name what I wanted, what I was struggling with, what I hoped for. I think I’ll read these words and remember exactly how I felt in this moment: a bit in-between, holding both gratitude and restlessness, steady but also searching. I hope some things will feel more settled by then. That I’ve found work that stretches and fulfils me, but doesn’t consume me. That I’ve carved out the kind of balance I was craving — the space to be present with my family, to move my body, to write and travel and connect deeply with the people I love. I hope I’ll have released some of the roles, obligations, or self-imposed pressures that no longer serve me. That I’ll be clearer on what I want to give my time and energy to — and more deliberate in how I do it. In work, I hope I’ll feel less like a small fish, more like someone who knows their own waters. Mostly, I hope I’ll feel like I moved forward. Not in a big, dramatic leap. But with intention, honesty, and a little more ease.

I hope I feel better than I did this year. I feel regret this year, anger towards myself for not doing what I set out to do. Not achieving these goals that were very very feasable. I hope I will stop excusing myself - nay, I will STOP excusing myself. My life has no room for excuses and empty promises. I no longer want to feel like a song stuck on repeat, I want to see change. In MY GOALS. Not in my lifestyle, in whatever comes up between me and Luke, whatever curveball the world throws. I WANT TO SEE MY GOALS PROGRESSING. Fini. That's it. So I AM going to make that happen.

I always find 10Q quite an emotionally draining process. There's something about self-reflection (maybe just if you're me) that encourages you to dwell on the bad and what needs improving rather than thinking about all the good things. I spent a lot more time this year looking back on previous answers and it's interesting how much is the same year on year (lol, said that last year). But I do think that maybe I will see more self-kindness and acceptance when I read next year's answers. I feel like working where I work now has really helped me in this quest for acceptance and peace, because for the first time in over 10 years I don't feel like I'm constantly being judged or set up for failure. My coach said something really interesting yesterday, in response to the 'dress for the job you want' comment, pointing out that maybe it was the organisation and not the job that was the problem in that instance. So that was interesting. But anyway, in terms of what will be different - I actually do feel pretty happy with the way my life is just now. I just need to be better at remembering that I am pretty happy with the way my life is right now without feeling this insane need to self-sabotage my own feelings of peace and contentment.

Happy. I just want to be happy, whatever that means. I want more joy in my life, more laughter and more appreciation for the small moments.

I love these annual, repetitive 10 questions! I see what issues are chronic, where shift has occurred and amazingly what has been resolved or acceptance has taken place.

I think I'll feel glad that I took this time to reflect, but I doubt that I will have changed much. I think I need a more frequent reminder of what these goals were to actually make a change. I'm also generally pretty happy with my life, which means that there's less motivation to make small changes. One thing I hope answering these questions will do is to make me notice small moments for reflection in daily life. I hope it inspires me to discuss the things in life that are ultimately important with my friends, not just what's entertaining or immediate.

As I’ve leaked at my responses this year, many overlap with my responses from last year. While I do feel I’ve made some progress, I know that I have a lot of unlearning, a lot of relearning, and generally a long road. But I do hope that I can look back, see the progress I’ve made, and feel good about it (even if still a WIP).

I will approach the answers with gleeful anticipation to determine how successful or unsuccessful I was. I’m hoping that I would see progress in most. Where I didn’t, I will attempt to answer, why not?

Last year's answers were so heartwrenching, I was hoping to go a bit lighter this year... but no such luck. I hope and pray that when I receive these answers, I will feel tender empathy for where I was in October 2025. I hope I will be in a better place, mentally and spiritually and maybe geographically. I hope I will place a hand to my heart and go, oof, yeah, I was really going through it.

I don’t know. I think I’m always a little disappointed with myself that I didn’t set out to do what I said I would. It’s also wonderful to relive memories and fun to read what I wrote last year. I hope I’ll be more focused this year on what I want to achieve. I learned about intention this year. I want to lose weight, I want to be a better teacher and person, but I need to make those my intentions.

This is always an interesting exercice in analyzing change. I’m always the same person but life does seem to change and often the “same, same, but different” is what’s real and true. Going to Canada for example this past summer, was familiar, but the experience of sending our kids to an immersion camp was different. Not working over the summer for once was very different. On the other hand, if I change jobs this year, next year will probably look very different. I’m nervous about that and looking back on this answer in this regard will be interesting. Do I actually follow through on my plan? Will I be successful? Or maybe I’ll have a change of heart ? Will I do something like 75 hard again? Hot yoga? Get back down to 145 lbs?! Probably not, but that was a big accomplishment this year and I’m hopeful I can look back on this year as a successful one. I imagine I’ll also be thankful once again that I recorded these thoughts.

nostalgia. maybe some bittersweet feelings depending on what my life looks like. fondness. love for 2025 me and how i have grown over the last year. i hope my hopes and dreams become a reality, through my own grit, determination, love, and commitment to myself. i am my greatest love story!

Hmmmm...next year, I hope I'm feeling relieved that things in our country have taken a turn for the better, but I'm not sure I really believe that is possible. But for me? I feel like I'm mostly on a good path. My family is healthy, we're trying and doing new things, I still love my job. So, I guess I hope for the lies and the constant bad news to stop coming at us and for us to be working toward finding ways to work together.

I hope that I'll be struggling with new and different things a year from now because I'll have figured out how to manage the things I'm currently struggling with. I hope I'll be feeling a little more balanced and directed. I think my day-to-day life could look very very different a year from now, or it could look really similar—but regardless I hope my internal landscape will feel more settled, or if it's unsettled, I hope it's unsettled by something new.

I am curious if I will still be working or if I will be retired. Will I have bought a house? Will I have traveled, or gone fly fishing?

I know I'll be happy to read these answers, because writing them has helped me synthesize so many emotions that I haven't shared with anyone. It has encouraged me to make promises to myself that I otherwise would've dismissed outright. This could've been a very lonely New Year, but instead I feel peaceful & optimistic. I hope that next year brings me a larger circle of friendship & activity, but writing will always be important to me & I look forward to answering these questions again.

I hope to feel refreshed. If I’m going through something tough, I hope the memory of this chill era brings fond memories. Then again, with the US diving deeper and deeper into darkness, I hope I don’t look back and curse myself for my complacency.

Hopefully I will see some progress made with what I’ve learned about myself, how I’ve improved with respect to being introspective enough to determine what goals to focus on. Since I cannot predict what September 2026 or 5787 will bring, it’s kind of difficult to know how I will react.

I think I'll feel disappointed, but I hope I'll feel understanding. And maybe I'll even get to feel a little proud. I really hope I have found clarity in how/when(/with whom?) I will have children.

Re-reading my 2024 answers I saw how much and how little had changed. How I made progress on the things I can control, that depended on me - and how not much changed on the things that involved others. I hope when Sept 2026 comes around, I would feel above all, happy. But also, more in control. With a "Plan Eliz". And not in control because I can control it all, but because I have accepted the reality as it is and did what I could to pursue my happiness. Accepted that if my partner cannot commit to marriage and kids now, either I've left, accepting the risk of being alone or I've found a middle ground with him and I am genuinely content with where we are at or somehow, I've accepted that things will take more time and it's worth waiting. But I will have made a decision and therefore will not feel so much as a hostage of these feelings of incompleteness. I truly hope couple's therapy helps us - either by unleashing the beautiful future we have ahead together, or freeing us to look into another future, maybe separate.

I hope that I feel more hopeful. This past nine months in our country have been one nightmare after another, and it seems that nothing can be done to halt the rising tide of hatred, animosity, and cruelty. If things haven't settled down here, I may be thinking of a move to Sweden.

I hope that I'll feel proud of the things that I've done since 2025, and happy that I've wholeheartedly pursued the things that seemed the most important or compelling. I hope to grow into the local activist communities in a meaningful way, and that I can contribute in the most effective ways for me without feeling either put-upon by more obligations than I want or guilty for not being involved enough. I hope that I will have done all the things that seem important to me: running regularly, doing serious hikes with Rebecca, kayaking with Nathan, resisting fascism in as many meaningful ways as I can, and making time for creative and joyful pursuits without any expectations of "success". I hope there will have been less trauma for my loved ones and for my country, and that we'll have a new president and a new administration, but these things are out of my control. No matter what happens in my world, I hope to support my loved ones and myself and for us to all be as happy and functional as possible, given our circumstances.

I like what I wrote last year. I hope that was is different is that things with G really get to a good place. That we’re not on the merry-go-round and that he is understanding himself with more compassion and me too. That maybe some wheels are turning for the kinds of changes he needs, i.e. moving, or maybe we’re settling, but that the friction is reduced. I hope things feel a little lighter. I hope I feel a little more lightness inside.

Wow. Well, it's September 2025 (well actually October 1) and I am writing my book Breaking Scrub. I am hoping that I will finally feel joyful and happy - regardless of if I am in a relationships or not. I aim to feel blissful, calm, content, and deeply stable and grounded - unflappable in my deep sense of self and embodied self. I hope that I don't feel so tired. I don't want to feel the ache. I want to feel joy. I want to feel love. I want to be love. I want to be in love with my life. I want to stop spiraling in grief. I want to alchemize whatever the fuck ahs happened to me. I want everythign to be in the past and discharged of all emotional residue. I want my life to be somewhat different. I don't want to do so much call. I don't want to be on gyn backup call. I want to feel less emotionally charged at work. I want to be able to pick up my son twice/week from school. I want to drop him off at school every day (already achieved). I don't want to work Fridays. I don't want to work weekends. I want to make millions of dollars from passive income and from royalties without having ot put more effort in. I want to be surrounded by loving, kind, attuned, gentle, thoughtful, conscientious people who would send me a handwritten letter of gift just because they were thinking of me. I want to have someone I can call at 3am to tell them if somethign terrible happened. I want to be emotionally available. I want to be thinking about having another baby because I have met the love of my life who is obsessed with me and values me and truly sees how deeply wonderful I am. I want to feel safe. I want to feel stable. I want to feel loved and I want to give love, so deeply and unmeasured, I want it to pour out of me because my network is also pouring into me. I want to be creative. i want to write. I want to have suggestions and ideas and people take them seriously. I want to be able to identify issues at work but also have the time and space to execute on them.

R: I hope I'll be relieved considering the difficult times we're living in right now. J. I'm going to be extremely impressed that for the first time ever I actually completed all the questions. (Well almost all of them) Besides that, how I feel is going to depend on a number of things, primarily what is happening with our federal government. I really hope I don't think to myself Boy, we thought it was bad then. That was nothing. I hope I have a job that I enjoy going to. One where I can be part of the fabric of the place. But I don't think I'll relate it to thinking about these questions because unless I'm looking at them in a given moment, I don't really think about them.

idk how i'll feel i hope that i'm more content than i am right now i can't keep going feeling so desperate for change all the time if nothing else, i hope that if i keep feeling like this that i do something big and go disappear in scotland on a farm or something until i feel better i need something to give (past me- i don't feel like i've grown at all. i think the world feels like you're ending when you're 22.)

I think I will be a little surprised. Last year I was so distraught about the possibility of Trump being elected. Now I am keeping my equanimity as best as I can, and speaking up for freedom. This year seems SO DIFFERENT because I just lost my mom. Usually I am a happy and contented person and I'm not at the moment, I'm sad. I wonder if I will feel happier in a year.

Hopefully I'll feel like I took some big steps. I'd like to be in a new role, with better pay. I'd like to have some money set aside, even if it's only one month's worth. I'd like to have lost another 5-10 pounds (bringing it down to around 170 or 165). Most importantly, I'd like my kids and me to be happy and thriving.

I think I'll still be proud that after watching for several years, I finally got my shit together enough to answer. I think I'll look back from a slightly more stable place and go "ohhh, yeah. That was the beginning of the journey. I remember that." and smile. I do hope I'll have a little more stability, that I'll be a little better at doing this new rhythm and it won't feel like a baby giraffe learning to walk all the time. I hope I can compare the difference of where I am now, answering these questions, and where I am then, reading them, and be proud. I do think I'll be grateful to have taken the time to write down the moments, to capture the introspection. And I hope that that continues to inspire me to take the time to journal, to capture my inner life with as fleeting as time is.

If this year is any thing to go by it will come as a complete surprise when September 2026 rolls around.and the questions are put before me again. A pleasurable surprise but hard work. I don’t know what changes are wrought from answering these questions but it is enjoyable to see last years answers. I usually think that’s quite well put. Pride cometh before a fall? .

I'm sure I'll have the same mix of responses I always have. A couple of my responses are concrete goals, and I hope that I will have at least made meaningful progress towards those goals by next year. I worry somewhat that this year's responses were too rushed and thoughtless (certainly I answered them more quickly than normal), so it'll be interesting to see if I feel that way in a year. I hope I'll feel that the little bit of reflection I did here was worthwhile and that these questions served to motivate me to reflect on and improve my life over the year to come.

I hope that I will have moved forward on what I imagine is important and accepted that I don't really have any desire to "climb mountains" anymore, so no need to feel deflated when seeing the mountains that others are climbing with a tinge that I ought to try or want to try.

I really hope that I will be able to look at this year’s answers and feel satisfied and proud that I have followed through on the intentions I have set. I really want this year to be one full of both sweetness and growth personally (despite the broader realities) and to be able to look at myself in a year with peace and confidence and excitement to continue to build on a foundation I feel sure is worth investing in.

I don’t have a lot of hope in my country improving in the next year - but in two years, I am hopeful. For this year, I’m just going to survive by building up the people and relationships around me. United we stand.

I just hope I'm less hopeless. Not waking up every day disappointed I'm still alive.

I hope I feel relieved that my worries are over, but realistically I expect things will be much much worse in a year.

I hope I can find the spirit to just exist in gratitude and appreciation, pride of my accomplishments, honored by the gifts in my life. I hope things are less frantic not so much in life but in spirit. And I hope I give myself the faith and trust to be uncomfortable in different ways to sit with the discomfort and explore what that means for me.

I imagine feeling some squeamishness and embarrassment like I usually do when I see my true self and vulnerability. I hope to have my dissertation’s end so close in sight that completion feels inevitable, and I can envision my life beyond this project. I hope that by doing these questions, there is a measure of movement that I don’t see unless I measure backward. We typically only measure forward toward goal or perfection.

I hope it will be a time for stress relief, better health and mobility, better outreach to others.

This year has ended on such a strange note, with husband’s injury and upcoming surgery that I’m not sure I can look ahead a year. I hope this will feel like distant memory, that we’ll be able to look back and think, whew, that was a weird time but everything turned out okay!

I hope I feel that I spent these past twelve months fruitfully and moving toward my vision for peace, fulfillment and happiness. Public achievements are part of that, but more than anything unopened succeeded at being true to myself and in integrity.

Well it’s funny to read my responses from last year because I don’t remember writing them. But it’s not surprising - I was very deep into my Judaism journey with my first high holidays since converting. I haven’t achieved my marathon goal and god knows when I will. But that’s okay. Next year I hope to be just as happy and content as I feel now.

I think I will be less closed off and more comfortable opening up to people I love and trust. I think I will be braver and gustier. With the demented, vengeful Trump and his incompetent lackeys holding so much power, who knows what this country will be like in a year. As a result of answering these questions, I will have either safely left the US or have figured out a way to work with others to successfully wrest power from those hateful creeps. To achieve either outcome, bravery and moxie are key.

I hope that I'm more at peace, that I'm more disciplined and more flexible. I want to experience growth and growth in areas I want. I want freedom and to enjoy my happiness and joy. I want more and true rest and not always be dashing off to the next issue or situation. I may be a chaos Coordinator, but it doesn't have to dictate my entire life.

The answers to my questions over the years have progressively been more spirit based. I think this will continue. I hope it will continue. I don't think this will happen as a result of these questions. But, it's good to have a place to focus on what is important to my life.

I'll be coming up on one year of a new job. I hope it's a good fit and that I like it and that I'm less stressed/annoyed/jaded than I am right now. I hope I have good relationships with my coworkers. I hope I am continuing to try to be on the right side of history and that by speaking out and contacting my congresspeople, we can put a stop to some of this dictator nonsense. I hope our country is okay. And I hope we will be feeling a little more financially secure even though we're both taking pay cuts because our mortgage will be paid off!!

I'll feel good. I will have put up solid boundaries between Mom and me. I will have cleaned my house, with everything in its place (and a place for everything). I might not be dating, but I'll feel secure in myself and, dare I say it? Happier. Or...who am I kidding? It will be another year gone, and why didn't I do MORE????!?

I hope I will feel that I have emerged from a difficult time. That I have some of the stability and coping skills that I have on through much of my life more easily at hand. I hope that my country will be in for less turmoil, having seen a revolution of compassion and well-being, replacing the greed, division, and anger. I hope wherever I am to be surrounded by loved ones and comfort. I hope that the feelings of fear and ill is I have today will be but a memory

I hope I feel more settled. I hope we are in a place of adventures and focusing on one another, strengthening relationships and developing self.

I hope I have made some progress in my personal goals. I really hope the war is over and the hostages are home. I'm really hoping antisemitism has declined and the world is not so divided--As I'm writing this I hear my mom (l"z) saying "From my lips to G-d's ears!"

I'm keeping my answer from 2024: honestly hope I'll feel the same - lucky and privileged and continuing to learn. Most important for me is appreciation in all senses of the word; after that, expanding my horizons. 10Q makes me realize how truly lucky I am in my family, friends, health, and situation in life. I'd add that I hope to go forward thinking of this moment in history as a beginning, rather than an end. Comparing 1925 to 2025 - imagine what our descendants will have achieved!

In September 2026, I hope I have fewer fears about living in the US. I hope I have a full time job in a new industry. I hope my family is safe and healthy.

I will have a better system to take control of the things that matter. I will have a better idea of what those things are, also.

I hope to feel more ease, and to look back at the previous year with a sense of wonder and awe that out of a year of grief/loss (2025) the next was full of connection, groundedness, travel, and stepping even further into my power at work/through writing. I hope I will have dedicated myself to a more regular creative practice and found a chevruta or jewish learning space that nourishes/challenges me.

I'm hoping I'll have reason to be more hopeful. I'm hoping Americans will wake up before it's entirely too late. We are sitting at a tipping point in this moment. I hope there is a blue tsunami that completely and totally obliterates any power trump and his sick little minions have. I'm hoping for a radical shift just short of a coup or insurrection. We're all exhausted by this regime and just want government to work for us not against us. We all just want to live lives without this daily firehouse of bad news, threats, and further erosion of our rights. We want our country back so we can breath again. And it would be nice if we were no longer seen as idiots word wide.

When September 2026 comes, and I review my answer from this year, I think I'll feel proud of my progress. I say this thinking/hoping I'll experience less clutter and more clarity. I actually want to look at my answers this year (before sealing the Vault), and restate my revealed aspirations as a sort of mission statement. Today is 1 October, as I write; and I see it as a New Year - it's the fiscal new year for us federal employees/retirees. It's also been twelve years today since I woke up the first morning a widow, as Steve passed at 1600 hours on 30 September 2013. It is a personally profound moment and monument of sorts for me, a line in the proverbial sand that demarks new beginning and new ways of being...

I will feel proud of what I accomplished and achieved through pursuits and hard work. Hopefully I will be happy with Mycareer and in relationships in my life. I will think about my life that means something more than I thought before.

I hope that by September 2026 the corrupt regime in power has collapsed and the rule of law has been restored in this country. I can’t really think about anything else.

I hope to feel settled and content in our rehabilitated home. I hope to have continued to deepen my relationship with Karen. I am hoping to be more at ease in social situations, thanks in part to being a social country club member. As always, looking forward to a deep playoff run for the Lakers!

I hope that I look back and feel like I've made progress over the next year. Some of my answers from last year show me how little progress I and the world have made in so many aspects. I don't want to feel like that next year.

I hope I will feel like I succeeded in changing my acceptance of who I am and what is happening to me so that I can move on to the next things that may happen.

I hope that everything I wished for myself I have gone and I hope that I’ve only gone better at the things I’ve already achieved and kept growing and maturing and getting to know myself and living the best version of myself and utilising the time I have to gain so many experiences with so many types of people so many types of places getting the education and I deserve in everything not only at school and just in general taking advantage of the time and then now I’m being the best version of myself.

I’m not sure. As I’ve mentioned several times already, Trump is president and he and his lackeys have yet again set up a giant bill to give the rich great tax breaks and shut down aid programs nationally and internationally. They’ve defunded NPR, they’re trying to put Planned Parenthood out of business - everywhere I look the news hurts my heart. I hope in a year there will be more protests, strong progressive candidates with real messages and concrete plans, and I hope to keep volunteering where I can. ❤️

I hope I'll feel strong in my convictions, proud of my actions, and confident in my relationships and sense of personal value.

I hope I will have found a better life rhythm. I hope I will be in better strength, and accept what I can and cannot do. I hope that I have made progress on my films and film programming and I hope I will find peace

I think I will look back on the answers to these questions with fondness and melancholy as my life will be vastly different at this time next year than it is now. I hope I will be able to appreciate what I had then and that I will be able to find joy and things to look forward to in the new life that I have created for myself.

I'm afraid I'm gonna be disappointed because nothing has changed. If I can put aside some fears, stay focused, and realize what's truly important, I hope to be at a more contented place this time next year.

Last year was a lot about my mom. This year the big thing has been launching my kid. I wonder what will be happening next year? I hope answering these questions will help me be intentional about what happens this year.

I have no hope for anything

I really wish I get back the life spark.

I hope to feel alive, full of joy, happy that I have been of service to my family and community during this time of great transition, and a beacon of heartfull integrity, full of RADIANCE I can eventually take with me back to the cosmic womb when I move off planet. LOVE ALL AROUND!

Hopefully I will feel more optimistic about the future of our country & the world. This go around I felt like the answers to the questions were a purge of all my negative thoughts regarding the state of our country and the negative impacts on our citizens and the rest of the world. I pray I will feel cleansed, positive, happy.

My answers from last year are so similar to my answers from this year. I’m disappointed in myself for not making any of the changes I had wanted to make. Next year I hope to be further along in making sure my life choices push me to be able to have different answers next year.

I hope to feel more organized, and that a lot of personal, art, family and house projects are already long done. For example, I hope I have my dad’s stuff sorted out, and that Kris is in a much better place—having more services for his home. I hope that I feel good about what I’m doing—am I still at DLS and/or in grad school??

I hope our country feels more sturdy. I hope every day doesn't feel like an accelerant is poured on our polarized society. I want to feel like I've found ways to be helpful and stand up for what I believe in while not letting myself get ground down to a nub.

I hope I will be in a romantic relationship, and hope that my apartment will be in better shape, with completed projects and less clutter. I hope I will be retired but still working maybe 1-2 days a week and doing other activities that are rewarding, like volunteering, singing, drawing, and similar.

I'm so pessimistic about the country and the world that I fear I'll feel worse than I do now. However an election will be coming up and I will be working hard to get the outcome I want. I hope that Kathryn will be at the same level of health and cognition she currently is (or better if that is possible). I hope I will be less overwhelmed. May the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur next year be a time when can spend time meditating, reading and reflecting.

I sincerely hope that I feel more optimistic about the state of this country and the world than I do now. I hope that things are better, not worse - for us all.

I hope that I have become better at keeping my fears and anxieties at bay, taking one day at a time, enjoying what there is to enjoy and trust in a positive outcome.

I think I’ll feel a little disappointed that I didn’t achieve as much as I wanted to. I’m hoping to see that I’ve grown as a person

I hope to have completed my book and to be still on a creative roll, as I am now. I hope to be more integrated in myself and less prone to acting out old habitual patterns.

Hope better, but probably not. All the insights the last couple of months or so is how fucked I am. Odds of improvement, specially having treatment-resistant depression, are not good.

oh dear god I hope that I feel a profound sense of relief, or something on the move toward that. I hope I don't feel angry. Or hopeless. All of that was about our world/country, not me. ME: apart from all that (which feels impossible right now), I will be f-ing 55 years old. 55. 55. 55. laminated Denny's senior menu age. At some point I have to become okay with that right? That I'll no longer panic because it JUST IS? I will have two college graduates (god willing) as sons and all that is involved in worrying about them. I hope that I am NOT worried about them apart from existentially. I have little hope right now but I do have the capacity to enjoy moments, even days. I can spend time with my parents and the rest of my family, chat with my boys, enjoy the sun and tasty food, make art and music. I hope that I will be doing those things a year from now, even if everything THEY are promising is coming actually comes, and our world as we know it comes to an end.

Last year was difficult. Having finally landed on my feet five months ago, I feel more secure in myself and happier than I have been in a long time. I pray that the happiness lasts, and this year is better than last year, but not as good as the year after.

First off, I’m happy to say I’m more fulfilled now than I have been in quite awhile so 2024 me would be so happy to hear that! For 2026 I really hope to have a better sense of self. I don’t want to question if I am an artist I want to have the work to show for it. I don’t want to just question if I love travel, I want the memories to back it up. I want to be truly invested in what I like and clear on how I spend my energy. Most importantly, I want to be actually happy. I know contentment is the more mature answer, but happiness I still believe is the spark that lets you know you are in the right place.

HOPEFULLY I will feel like I’ve accomplished something more than I have this year and HOPEFULLY we’ve moved and are settled into our new home!

Given the cruelty and greed of Trump and his enablers so far, I can't begin to imagine what 2026 will bring. I hope that enough good people will stand up, resist, and work to save democracy. I hope I will continue to advocate for the most vulnerable among us, including immigrants, migrants, the Earth, and all her creatures.

I hope that by this time next year, all of the hostages will be home -- with their loved ones or buried with kavod. I hope that midterm elections will restore some sanity to this country and to Israel, minimizing the worst tendencies of those in power to disenfranchise the people and undermine democracy. I hope that my children will continue to thrive: Sophie, settled in her marriage; Hannah, nearing the end of her undergraduate years and ideally, if not with her current partner, then still friends and finding someone Jewish; and Sammy, returning to yeshiva if that's what he wants or to college instead. I hope that I will have sown seeds to strengthen my marriage and that Rob and I have found new things that bring us together. I hope that I am secure in my work, that I have a decent salary, benefits, and sense that the job is stable. I hope that I have made progress on my goal to write the cookbook and that I haven't procrastinated another year. I hope that next year I will feel more hopeful than I do this year, that I have more reason to be optimistic, that I haven't frittered away the year on narishkeit (like doom scrolling or wasting time on my phone), and that I've done something I can look back upon and say, "I'm proud of that." I'm hoping to make a real effort to work on my middos and my Jewish learning -- not just lip service. Finally, I'm hoping to look back on this as a year of growth and next year see myself as stronger, more resolved, confident, empathetic, and directed.

I think I will feel, "what was I thinking?"

I hope that I don't feel like nothing has changed, like I'm still treading water, wondering about the same questions year after year. I sure hope the world isn't as scary as it is today. And...I hope that thinking about these questions causes me to make real plans to change things in my life and the lives of others.

En años pasados he esperado mucho y no ha sucedido el cambio esperado sino más retos, por eso no respondí a las preguntas el año pasado. Hay cosas, muchas cosas, que no dependen de mí, como sobreponerme a la menopausia o que termine la etapa de cuidados a mi mamá y que encuentre un trabajo que me guste. Lo único que quiero es seguir viva, quiero sobrevivir a todo lo que estoy experimentando ahora. Sí, eso implica el deseo de que las cosas vayan mejor… Quiero estar viva el próximo año.

I will be surprised at my answers, I hope. I will be retired and I hope that some of my plans will be underway

This program is a blessing in my life. I'm looking forward to seeing growth. I'm hoping my life will be more abundant and calm as I can see that I really worked to overcome stumbling blocks. I will be glad that I pushed myself to answer this year's questions. It was difficult yet I overcame, right? I answered all the questions with thoughtful answers. I will continue to move forward though it be baby steps sometimes and leaps other times.

I think that I will be ready to get on with the art of living!

I wrote about getting a new job a lot this year. This is a bifurcated thing, I may, and likely will ultimately have to get a new job, but we are also getting a new EMR at work that will supposedly transform the job. I don't have any job prospects on the horizon, so I will get to at least see what this new EMR changes. I hope I have more understanding of myself and my limits next year, this seems to be a recurring theme every year. I hope to become an adult bat mitzvah. I hope my family is healthy and thriving, that is in God's hands, somewhat, but we must also make the most of our time together. Hoping the government functions more as it did in the past next year, this time since Trump has been in office again has been disturbing and I am not sure how we will move forward from here. The government shut down today. I used to feel panicked when that happened and this time I feel just resigned. Finally, I pray, as I did last year, that the Israel Hamas war ends. Hopefully the Russo-Ukrainian war will end as well. May all people be healthy, happy, safe, and filled with שסד loving kindness.

I hope I'm not so unsettled; so easily annoyed and impatient. I hope I can cultivate a year of calm (vs. the last few years which have me overwhelmed), wherein I can just feel at ease!

I will hopefully had my hip(s) replaced. I will be walking with ease, without pain. I will have reached my goal weight. I will have met my Jewish reading and learning goals and continued on that path. Maybe I will have moved back to Connecticut. It would be a dream come true to have my grands around me. I could watch Noah and Oz playing Soccer. I could squeeze Ila and beat the hell out of Aviva in Scrabble.🤭 All this G-d willing. B”H

I have hope in the future because I have faith in HaShem and in myself. So I will feel just great

Ik laat het open. Natuurlijk hoop ik dat al mijn wensen en dromen uitkomen. Als het goed gaat, heb ik volgende jaar het gevoel dat ik goed mijn eigen pad heb gehouden, vooral in balans mbt zorg voor mij zelf en zorg voor anderen.

I think I’ll be pretty proud of myself. I possibly will have a book in the works although I can’t be 100% sure. I have been fully divorced and living a new life. maybe my daughter will be really happy with her new right now new boyfriend it will have been dating a year thinking about marriage or not. Everything is new right now looking forward to next year‘s reflections.

I hope the war in Gaza will be over, the sooner the better. I hope my government will be more sane. I hope (maybe) I'll be settled in a new volunteer role. I hope my body will have less pain as I practice my PT exercises and pay attention to my posture. I'm not sure if I want knee replacement surgery scheduled by next year or not. I know I'll need it at some point.

When September 2026 comes and I read these answers, I imagine I’ll feel a mix of pride, reflection, and maybe even surprise at how far I’ve come. I hope by then there is progress toward peace in Israel and that the hostages are finally home, a hope that continues to stay with me. Personally, I’d like to feel stronger in my Jewish practice, more confident in myself, and open to new connections and opportunities. Even if not everything changes, I hope I can look back with gratitude for the growth I’ve made and the ways I’ve stayed true to myself.

I want to be living a simpler life. I recently watched a video from a Norwegian on 12 principles of Nordic living and greatly connected with those. They included the making work a part of your life, connecting with nature, less is more, designing calm spaces in physicality and mind, engaging in honesty and boundaries, being punctual and present, engaging in solitude in various ways, and community responsibility. This really resonates with me. Although many of my answers don't reflect this directly, I want to spend less time accumulating things and consuming things and more time living and enjoying. This past year, I have felt more connected with nature and more interested in experience over watching tv. I think I listened to podcast because I couldn't stop my thoughts, but I didn't really think about the value of just being along with myself or with a task. Just being. So I hope I embrace a simple and more peaceful life next year. Less drama, more valued stoic living.

I don't expect my life will be much different as a result of thinking about and answering these questions. Perhaps Fran and I will have started regular state of the union conversations. I also hope that work will feel less hectic this time next year, but I think that's a seasonal thing rather than anything I've brought upon myself. I will also know if my Gutless weight management programme has helped me lose a bit more weight and change some of my behaviours. I will, as always, feel some gratitude for my past self for persisting with this tradition of self-reflection at a time of year that is quite demanding. It is a natural turning point in the year, a new year (academically) but also seasonally. It's clear why there are religious festivals at this time of year. It's a time to reap the harvest and reflect on how things have grown; a time to start new habits and drop old ones; a time to return to work with renewed focus. I'll be interested to note if I managed to read Larkin and Austen, as I've said I want to. Will I also have worked my way through all of Barbara Pym's novels? I also hope Tom is still with us and is in good health. What will his life be like without all the hospital appointments? I don't anticipate any major changes at work. But who knows what will happen? One thing that I haven't mentioned so far was that a few months ago Fran and I discussed the possibility of moving back to Scotland at some point. We didn't put a date on it, but I imagine it would be in 5-10 years. I got quite excited at the time: thinking of what it would be like to live back home again, closer to my parents and Richard and Zoe; close enough to attend Ayr United and Ayr RFC games. Would we get a lot more for our money when buying a house? What would our lives be like? What would Fran's job be? Would I miss the culture; or would the proximity to Glasgow and Edinburgh be plenty? We could also go to Murrayfield regularly for the Six Nations home matches. Will we be any further down the road with that sort of future planning or will it remain a pipe dream for the time being?

What I mainly hope is different is that we’ve sold our condo for a good price and have moved into a rental in Tacoma that checks most if not all of our boxes, saving >$1200/mo in shelter expense. Selrish? Perhaps. What good am I to others if my basic needs are being served without the underlying stress I have where I live now. A close second though is my deep hope for a Trump impeachment and conviction, a soon to be turned Blue Congress, and more DEI in our country.

I'll be preparing to go back onstage for the first time in 20 years. I hope I'm still in good health and able to put the effort forward to do this. It's been a long 3.5 years since my heart surgery.

I hope my life will be in order. I hope my health will be better. I hope there is peace in the world

I hope I feel that this was a low period in my life, and to be able to reflect that things got better after this. I hope that I'm not in a toxic job. I hope that my mental health improves. I hope that I continue to get physically stronger. I hope that I continue to build good relationships with family and friends. I hope, I hope, I hope.

Frustrated that I didn't take this more seriously. My answers are probably too glib to be meaningful

I am not optimistic about the current direction our country is taking. It is my thought that families with less means than I are being cornered. With the US Govt shutdown I look at our leadership as uncaring with NO empathy for the working class.

I truly think I'll feel more grounded. I really feel like the upcoming year is a big transitional one, a big growth opportunity. I think a lot of uncertainties will be clear (my job, some election results) and things where the level of importance right now feels unclear will be very settled. Because I'll either get some great things going and we'll get some wins, or we'll descend into total fascism and none of it will matter in the face of all we've lost!

I hope to be heading to Europe … proud of the year I worked so hard for

I'm getting used to being surprised by how the world has changed and therefore my personal focus is no longer relevant. I think I'll feel like I have this year - that reflection is worthwhile when we learn and grow from it.

I hope I'll be calmer. I hope that the state of the world - which has made me an angry wreck for the past 2 years - and the state of my life - which seems so oddly precarious and sometimes even painful - will have stabilized. I hope I will have a little more money and a little more faith that I can make it all work out, and that God will grant me another year to try to discover the 'what' if not the 'why' to my life.

The years are fast but the days are slow, and a year is just one of the many cycles we're subject to. I had forgotten my answers, and those that I haven't actualized seem like they're still there, on deck, waiting. I give myself so much grace--too much, likely--but what I want is happiness and gratitude.

I hope I will have done my duty to my country. I hope I will be in better health, both physical and financial, goals I have been working on in vain for several years. I hope the world will be more at peace.

2025 has been rough year especially in Los Angeles. Just days into the year, two major fires broke out that not only destroyed homes in livelihoods but also highlighted the great class divide in our city. The new administration came in and stripped us of our first amendment rights and begin terrorizing our neighbors. I am hoping that by this time next year things feel a little bit more light and hopeful.

I hope I'm still here. I hope my loved ones are, too. I hope our world is better - safer, kinder, more accepting, less angry and divided. I hope I'm more grounded, and wiser. I hope I've learned to let a few more things go, and focused more on things that really matter (this year, I already feel like I'm getting there). I hope we're back in our main house (by April is the current plan). I hope I've seen my son more than I did this year. Dare I hope for grandkids? Probably not (maybe not even a good idea). I hope I've laughed a lot. I hope I've dug deeper. I hope I've loved myself more, and spread that around to those in my orbit. I hope I've been kind, to everyone.

Let’s see if the current villainous administration has outlawed elections, and outcomes they don’t favor. I’m rooting for a glimmer of hope for democracy; otherwise, I’ll expat with other friends to escape a nefarious dictatorship

It's really hard to imagine a full year from now. The government is so scary right now. I spend a lot of time really stressed and paralyzed with fear about our future and how the country is being threatened. I really hope that next year there are some major changes and that Trump, et al are not in power anymore... it's really hard to believe that could be true though

I think I will feel I have turned a corner with my introspection practice. Reviewing previous answers at this five-year mark of the 10Q exercise shows me that introspection is like art and self-care and compassion. Once I let myself have a little taste, I become insatiable. May my craving for art-making, self-love, and introspection triumph over darker cravings for escapism and comfort.

I think I will feel grateful, tranquil and content. I hope I will have increased self love and kindness, and deeper relationships with my husband and my community.

5786 will find me more involved in my new Jewish community. I'm reading Haftorah on Shemini Atzeret and hope to read Haftorah quarterly. and read the Rosh Chodesh Torah portion because it comes around often enough 😎 Updating my passport is in process and I hope to travel if things get too wild here. However, a new 2mo old grandson keeps me rooted here, so I'm not certain how willing I will be to save my sanity without family. Shanah Yoter Tova v'Gmar Chatimah Tovah. May it be a better year and one filled with less political chaos.

There are so many things that could happen between now and then it's really hard to tell. Gone are the days when one year rolls by just like another... The *daily* question is "what fresh new hell is this?" There is no universe where all this white nationalist christo fascist bull malarkey goes away without violence. They're deranged. There is no logic or reason anyone can use. They are impervious both to facts and to human decency. They don't believe anyone else should have basic human or civil rights. You can't reason with people like that - and we've already seen from Speaker Johnson refusing to swear in a duly elected Democratic senator this week that they won't accept that they are not the majority and that most people don't want their hateful, bigoted, vile and disgusting beliefs. A lot of people are thinking they can just vote away this problem. There is zero chance of that.

I truly hope that when I read this next September in 2026... that perhaps I'm a grandmother? That I've continued to grow myself and my studio (perhaps slightly differently/ perhaps I own the space). That I've continued to strive to achieve some of my goals... Tiny Living (do I own my plot and am I living or part living in my Tiny Living home), dive the Maldives again... walk the Camino.. see my kids regularly... but mostly... stay positive and strive to enjoy life.. be grateful for everything. The reflection these questions allow you .. in a snap shot of time that does go so fast .. is wonderful, daunting, but wonderful.

I hope that the 2026 version of me, if the fates allow me to continue living, sees the me of today, and remembers how I just got through a difficult chapter of my life. I hope he regards me with the same compassion that I regard the 2024 version of me right now, knowing what 2024-me had to go through to get here. I hope 2026-me will have become more skillful in dealing with his emotions and more understanding of his autism and how it impacts him daily. I hope he is quicker to forgive himself than I am.

...probably depressed. Probably surprised. I don't know how my life will be different. I still don't like to live in the future. Or the past. All I can do is focus on now. The present is what the future is built on.

I think I will feel hopeful about my life and the way I am living it. I’m not looking for a difference in the way I am living my life as much as a continuation of the expansiveness and joy I’ve experienced in the past few months. I am hoping for sustained gratitude, growth and appreciation of everything that is here.

I hope Donald Trump is dead. I hope my children continue to thrive physically/emotionally/intellectually. I hope my parents are healthy and enjoying their golden years. I hope my body continues to be able to do amazing things. I hope my husband continues to find his work fulfilling while maintaining/improving upon his work-life balance. I hope the people of Palestine are safe.

Since my everyday life is wonderful, I can't imagine feeling differently. I hope we are both still healthy and active, still working, still travelling! Most importantly, I hope we still have a democracy, that is the biggest challenge for the coming year.

I hope that there will be more stability in my life. I hope things will be easier. I hope that I will look back on these answers from a happier time.

The things I most fervently hope will be different are not, for the most part, personal. Yes, I want to declutter and continue on my journey towards better strength and health, but the things whose change I most dearly hope and pray for are systemic and insidious, the leadership that seems determined to do as much damage as possible to the nation I live in. That's where the change needs to happen.

My life is in the midst of undergoing massive change. By September 2026, I hope to be able to look ahead from a completely different position. I'm excited about the possibilities!

I enjoy answering these questions, because it give me an opportunity to look back over past years (and answers) and see what was going on in my life at those times. I don't think going through this changes me or my life in a significant way, however.

When the time comes and I look back and at my answers I hope that I feel at peace with my answers. I hope that I will always continue to grow and that my benchmark is higher than where I was when I answered my questions.

I hope I will feel that I have done a better job of predicting my future than I have in the past several years of 10Q. I hope that I will have actually made the changes that I have said that I plan to do.

I think I will be glad.I like knowing how I am growing and places where I feel stuck. It helps me to reflect and begin again. Striving not to repeat mistakes. Learning I am a good human being and loving myself first. Trusting God. Having Faith. Believing I have the courage and confidence to make a Change.

I truly hope and expect that my answers will all be a lot more hopeful, happy, and overall reflect a healthier life for me, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually

I know that I'll be interested in reading my last year's answers. I always do! Knowing that I record everything here annually, it does hold me accountable as to what I've accomplished, also to reflect on whatever plot twists happened.

I’m hoping to be in good working state. I have to figure out my balance and purpose with my children out of the house

I hope that the world will turn back to the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, and the politics will not be the current religion that people follow. People worship at the alters of politics or climate change, or gender ideology and it's tearing the world apart.

Hopefully I will be starting Fred & Utveckling. Hopefully I will have met people I will consider friends for very long. Hopefully it will be okay to say I'm Jewish and that I went to israel openly and without judgement. September 2026 will be a newer new start where I will actually feel comfortable living here away from Mamma & Pappa & Tilda (& James).

I hope that in other year I will be more comfortable dong things alone and will have better accepted my widowhood. I fervently hope that my children will be easier on me about my life and my choices. I am not a child and I am capable of making decisions

I feel that by Sept 2026, I’m going to be so appreciative of the last year. All the wonderful people in my life…the music, the learning, the spiritual growth, the joy of serving & helping others to believe in their authentic creativity and give them the tools they need. And maybe I’ll stop writing so many run-on sentences (see abovc).

I hope I've achieved the goals I set out this year, and I hope I'm in a different place with some of my relationships and my professional life.

I hope our country and world will SOMEHOW be massively improved from where it is right now. I pray for that every damn day.

I hope to be settled in retirement and travels and also hope to stay healthy!!!!

I might be living in a new place entirely on my own. That would be so very wonderful. I hope confronting my procrastination on all these certifications will light a fire under my ass and get me kick-started.

I hope that I have reduced my hours at work. I want to spend more time with my brother/SIL and their baby. I hope J and I continue to have a safe, trusting, hot and fun relationship. I would like to consider change of career or at least change of work within my field. I am good at and and enjoy being good at primary care but it's non-stop, and I'm not sure how long I will continue to enjoy practicing it rather than being good at it. Could I write a book? At least an article? Could I edit books or articles? Maybe start with morning pages, lol.

I hope that next September I will feel content, and inspired by my hard work; and in love with the life I've created for myself - by doing far more loving kind actions for myself. For now just focusing on taking care of me.

I think it's the same as last year and the year before and the year before that. It's still all a work in progress. I don't know. I hope I'll be healthy physically and emotionally. I hope this for my family and friends and for the world. I hope the assholes will get their due. And the one's traumatized by them will be healing. I hope I'm still dancing and as usual I hope my life is meaningfull. Maybe there will be something new and exciting and engaging to be involved with. And this year I am feeling unexcited by these questions. Maybe that's a transition to retirement. Maybe it's deeper. Maybe when I read this next year, G!d willing, I'll feel more connected and energized

I hope I'm moving forward instead of stuck in my grief. My other child and my grandchildren need me.

Reading my answer from September 2024 was really sweet. It brings me back but also gives me joy because it just shows how well I know myself and how important big concepts are in my life (positivity, gratefulness, being a vessel..). I want to feel the same way I did this year. Knowing I can accomplish my goals, knowing Hashem and the universe doesn't give me anything I can't handle, knowing everything works out for the best in one way or another. I want to keep shining my light. Keep being the best version of me. Keep living this beautiful journey we call life. On another very random note, I'm curious where I will be with my Judaism (practicing less, more, the same).

I will affectionately love myself and possibly chuckle here and there. I will be at least partially done writing my book and I will feel more relaxed in my body and my day and my life. And I will love myself more, and feel more deeply and intimately right with Dan, and I believe I may have a daughter in law by then, or at least the promise of one.

I really hope I'm feeling more optimistic than I do now, or at least less scared about the future. I also hope I'll be on better footing with regards to my goals (travel, writing, e.g.). And I hope the pain and disruption of my recent knee replacement surgery will be a distant memory, ha! And I really hope I've deepened my friendships and feel less lonely as a result, too.

I hope I’ll feel like I’ve achieved at least some of the aims I’ve recorded here and be feeling Heather, fitter and happier.

Not to be a downer, but I expect that I will feel surprised at how very, very bad things have declined in the US. I hope that I will have taken some action against the creep of fascism.

At this moment I’m thinking of going out . Need a sign

Jesus, I hope I will be safe and the US will not be cratering. I hope that there will be leadership to lead in the right direction and that I can support from wherever I am. I hope I have family and friends & rest & ease and dinner parties and walks in nature, and that I make art with children & gaze at the clouds.

I imagine the state of the world will be worse, but i hope the state of my family will be joyous. i am so overjoyed by my children's progress in coming into their own, what they believe is important and what they think they want to do to be a part of building a better world. I do feel my impact goes beyond my work to he people i have invested in, including my husband and sons.

I hope that I'll be different. I hope I'll be healthier. I hope I'll be more free to be my authentic self. I hope I'll be stronger mentally and spiritually. I hope I'll finally have forgiven myself. I hope I will still be alive to do these questions again next year! And I hope my creative block goes away and I can start writing again... I don't want much, do I???

I hope and pray that my life will be calm. Two daughters getting married within a month of each other this month and next. And planning another party for DD#1's religious ceremony sometime in 2026. ACK! My head feels like it's about to explode! Calm. Peace. All will be well. And all will be well. And all manner of thing shall be well.

1) Happy that Im alive. I hope to be still driving and continuing to learn to take things easy and learn to say NO instead of taking more and more on.

I really don't know how I'll feel. Too much has happened this year to have any sort of expectation as to where we will be a year from now.

I'm hoping this time next year I feel extremely hopeful opening up these questions. I'll be in an entirely different place and free of so much weight. I dont know where the world will be and that's scary to think about.

I know that I will be living elsewhere in my home city. I think it will be different. I hope that it is an improvement.

I've accomplished many things for myself this year. I am incredibly proud of how far I've come and look forward to continuing to improve my life. I will say yes to everything I can. I will care for my family in ways that demonstrate my love for them. I will continue to be excited about the work I do. I hope to have livable, organized spaces in my home that reflect my life rather than hide my fears.

This has given me a lot of space to think about how I want to improve for others, especially if we can have a child. I'd like to be less afraid. I'd like to become better at managing my fear, at living with it, even if I can't change what makes me afraid.

Well, I think I will be closer to a first trip to Israel, after getting healthier and stronger through the year before. I will be better at time management. I will be freer of old habits and doubt.

I hope I am happy with where I live. I know it will mostly be very different than the life I am living at the moment, and the life I have lived for the past 13-15 years. I hope my kids are happy and healthy. I hope my mom is doing better. I would like to get back to writing, or at least get some editing jobs. I hope I look back at this last year/these last years and feel like I got through it well, and am reasonably proud of myself for turning the corner.

I think I'll be a bit more settled in my mind and heart than I am right now, as I'll have another year of retirement and its shape under my belt. I hope I'll feel like I'm finally taking the reins of my own life and achieving the things I want to be achieving. And I hope I'll feel proud and happy about the things I have done, rather than discounting them as insufficient.

I hope so hard that Lenny will still be with us. I hope it doesn’t change for the worse

Will feel okay. Am I stuck?

Luckily, I think I’m in a very good place right now. Hopefully, I will look back and say that I succeeded in finding love and everything is going really well! After all, it’s all about love, isn’t it?

I hope that I will have grown and become more uncertain about all I know. The uncertainty means that I am questioning all that I hold to be true. Maybe opening of the mind is the key.

The future just doesn't feel predictable in the way it did five years ago, so it feels so hard to say. I couldn't not have imagined just how band Trump and band would be. Or that the war in Gaza would continue for two years. Or that RFK would actually dismantle vaccine access. I hope that I've created more soul hygiene in the morning and evening, that I've figured out a new balance between work and child-rearing. That's as much as I'm willing to predict or wish for. (I hope I'm an auntie again, but that's between my brother and my sister-in-law and their surrogate and God.)

Since nothing changed really from last year, I don’t expect much change for next. That said, I’d still like to be optimistic and hope for peace and stability in the world and to feel safer as a Jew.

I hope that I continue to improve my professional skills and my health condition stays stable or as good as it currently is. From a health perspective - how I feel today may be as good as it will ever be! And that is OK Regarding what may be different 1-year from now, I hope that I will be in the process of selling my business. I also hope that I will be able to spend more time with my granddaughter and that she continues to grow and learn in a healthy manner. Th 10Q questions help me think about the big picture issue and rise above the detailed busy work of life.

Definitely need to clear my head of anxiety and of course lose weight. The mishagas I had in my head when Jared was alive and I was working has been replaced with general circular thinking. Comes with age? Was always there? I do hide it well but I’m concerned the stress will cause health problems someday. Political turmoil today with government shutdown makes it worse. I’d like to turn on TV and not hear bad news. Losing weight will help my back I’m sure. I do have financial stability, general health, social circle, no family issues - so why aren’t I happier on the inside.

I pray I'll still be alive, that my children will be safe and healthy. Israel, a nuclear state, is trying to drag the US into a world war. Zionism is dehumanizing and dangerous - first, to Palestinians, and second, to all those silently do nothing. We must resist

Knowing me, I will be in about the same place: worrying, ambivalating, grieving, a little depressed, a little regretful, and having done a lot of good things and fine things but not giving myself enough credit. I can hope for something different, but I'm not counting on it. Is that sad, or real? Time will tell.

What I think, and what I hope, are perhaps two different things. I think that another year will pass and that I’ll be in the same place, doing much of the same thing. What I hope is different is that I can enjoy the simple things that are provided to me on a daily basis. I hope that I can live in the moment, that I can practice gratitude in everything, that I can practice being and practice being content in the smallness of my life. That I don’t need big things, that I can truly find joy in the simplicities of life. I hope I grow spiritually, that I am able to maintain a certain amount of softness with strength. That I can indeed be the man I wish to be and, more importantly, the man God wants me to be. I hope that my relationships continue to deepen—most importantly with Jennifer and Chrissy. I want to love them both well, with tenderness and presence, to grow in patience and in my ability to listen, to see them, to hold space for them. I hope that my connection with Julia, Jane, and Henry grows as well, especially as Henry has just come into the world. I want to be a steady presence for my parents as they grow older, to honor my bond with my brother Eric, and to nurture my relationships with Aaron and Eli. All of these relationships matter deeply to me, but I know that if my heart is rightly ordered toward Jennifer and Chrissy, it will overflow into the others. The fear is that I will be stuck, that I will feel insignificant, that nothing I do matters. And how I feel—that’s dependent on perspective. I may never do anything great or impactful on a large scale. I likely will never be remembered by the next generation, and I’ll fall into the masses of humans who have gone before me that I have no idea who they are. I have to be happy with that if I am ever to experience peace. I hope that when discouragement comes, I will remember it is not a signal to stop but an invitation to courage. I hope I can slow down. To enjoy and to savor each moment. I hope I grow in my character, that I am able to tend the fire daily and hope that others will find it and find warmth and peace. If my name fades, I hope my presence leaves an imprint of courage, warmth, and love in those whose paths I’ve crossed. That, more than anything, is my greatest wish.

I don't know what will be different. I fear so many people have bad intentions in our government particularly. I hope something has changed for the better: New covid therapeutics, new Administration; new discoveries in medicine, science, or climate change. End to war. Right now I am discouraged.

I hope my life isn't all that different. I hope my scans continue to show no new growths. I do hope to be exercising or walking more. I sincerely hope that my child is working in his field. In a world full of us vs. them, I hope we can somehow all get to a world of us. I'm tired of war. I'm tired of hate. I'm tired of Trump. He is petty and vindictive and gives power to people like him.

I can't say answering the questions has added anything to my motivation for changing what I can in my life. It's already something I think about all the time. But yeah - I hope i'll be 50 pounds lighter and a lot stronger, with more endurance and flexibility, too. (I mean, I really just hope I'll be relaxed and happy and laugh more. But I feel like the diet/exercise is maybe the path to that.)

I hope to be more assured, more clear, and more ready.

I think I'll feel reflective. I appreciate the opportunity to check in with myself and compare to a year ago. I hope I am feeling a greater sense of peace and lightness of spirit. I've been really down, and ill or injured several times already this year...it's been hard to maintain a sense of equanimity, yet that remains my goal. I am ever striving for balance!

I am hoping that I will be more forgiving, less judgemental and accepting of my faults. I hope that I can continue to rid myself of negativity and those around me who are unable to look at this world and see the good. My wish for peace might someday come true

I hope I have my affairs completely in order and I hope I have a better balance of free time and committed time. Doing 10 Q reminds me of what I really hope for and what I really care about.

Depressingly the answer is similar to last year. More that can go wrong than go right. It would be lovely to be surprised…

I hope for good health and world peace—well, the first might be more attainable. I hope I’ll be surprised in a good way.

Hoping to feel hopeful about a new year. Hoping to have more rituals to celebrate our Jewishness, independent of theism and nationalism. Hoping to have moved further along a path of love of an open, loving, compassionate, inclusive Judaism. We'll start with our welcoming sukkah and new words for rituals such as shaking four species in the six directions and welcoming people to join us. Stay tuned.

I expect to be exhausted by the national and global politics but please with my personal decisions about how I responded and the state of my family and work. But given how much has happened in the past 9 months, I am terrified about how much will change and how fast in the next 12. It's hard to know what extreme life challenges this all might present - or the regular unexpected ones - and how I might choose to step up... or fail to. So I hope all this reflection just helps me to make thoughtful and informed decisions I can later be proud of.

I hope the heartbreak will be less. Right now it's so raw and constant. I hope I will feel greater confidence in my career. I'm at such a transitional point right now.

I can see that a hard Fall has become a pattern. Maybe it’s been this way for a longer while than I realized. I am often sick or injured or depressed at this time of year. Last year, I coordinated and led high holy days while I had two injured feet! I just pray that next year will be better. That falling apart over and over is leading me towards more joy, connection, ease and happiness. That I’m still on track to becoming more and more myself. Maybe next year, I’ll have a completely different relationship to my work and these holy days. Maybe I’ll have a different job and can take it all less seriously. Wouldn’t that be a nice change?

My first hope and wish is to be alive, lucid, and still independent. I hope that the "baggage" I'm trying to shed stays shed, and that I can accept what I cannot change without allowing it to change me.

I'm not sure. I'm doing 10Q for the first time. I'm hoping for a resolution with my child, a better political atmosphere, and continued good health for myself and my loved ones.

I hope to look back and think 'wow, that was crazy, I'm glad things are so much better.'

I want to look around at my life: how I’m spending my days; who I’m spending them with; the work I’m doing in the world; the community I have cultivated; and the writing I’m sharing and go Holy Wow!! You did that. You did that. You showed courage and tenacity and, as a result, you’re living a life that’s true to you. Brava!!

I hope that I have more hope. I hope that my wife and I have continued to be better connected. I hope my children have figured out their paths. I hope our world is less chaotic.

This year my brain is making tight circles around "Pete died" and "Michelle has cancer." I hope by next year that Michelle is healthy again, some of my rawness has healed and that I have made room for new ideas, feelings, and experiences. Seeing my previous 10Q answers has helped me see the continuity of my life over many years. I am comforted that I will someday crawl out of this year's emotional crater and be back on solid ground.

I’m always struck by how much of my outlook on life changes in just a year. I like to be reminded that sometimes what is happening in this 10Q moment is as fleeting as it feels important and considered. There’s only so much I can do to fine-tune both the body and the soul to continue to live a more meaningful life. But these check-ins sure do help!

I plan to be healthier and more at peace with the Universe and my Path to Harmony.

I hope to feel more calm, and I hope to feel appreciative of the weird stresses of the last several years. I already feel younger than I did at 60. This new era holds so many joys, and I want to focus on joy. I hope to think, Wow, I had no way of knowing that (x cool thing) would happen back then!

I’ll have a new life in a new house with a new wife

I hope that embracing my truth, the courage to share it, and taking risks will continue to grow as a widening path in my journey. I hope that Heidi and I either come together in the same location, or find the courage to shift or de-primary-ize our relationship - scary. I hope I make a difference in the crazy hate, violence, and fascism taking over in the US right now.

I think I’ll feel that some things never change, and that others really do! I look forward to and love this exercise every year because it gives me a chance to reflect on the things that are most valuable and to remember what was specifically important at a stage of time. I hope that I regularly think through these issues throughout the coming year and find some ideas or solutions for the things I hope to change. Maybe next year, more things will have changed than stayed the same.

I hope that next year my life will be as good as now and I hope that my son will have made a new life for himself.

I think I'll feel reflective and probably more than a bit harried as we will likely be getting ready to have OERA and RTMA on the ballot in a few weeks.

I’ll hopefully be happier since I should be in remission or close to it!

Conflicted about my last answers because it will remind me of my breakup and how 2025 was a pretty tough year. But I guess I did get there being madly in love with Asella but she’s not in my life anymore. 💔 I just want to be happy and ideally enough over my heartbreak that life is feeling, good, meaningful and happy. I really just want feel fulfilled with where my life is next year and be in better shape/healthier than I have been in the past two years.

Im hoping to have achieved some of theboutlines goals. I will really try hard! Am hoping to have stayed in good health and for those of my family I hope by this time next year our hostages will have all been returned as soon as possible and that Israel is finally in peace and that we have better PR!

I hope I will regain control of my life, time, future, my desires and plans, and my mental and physical wellbeing. I hope my limbo situation is defined once and for all. I hope my daughter stays closer to me than she is now.

I think I will remember the sadness that I am feeling in this very moment about not being included again - about all of my life-long regrets due to my personality. I hope I am healthy and that my kids are healthy and happy. I hope that everything went well at Madi's wedding; I hope that I learn from the improv experience (although I haven't learned from any prior disappointments) about how to get along in a group better. I hope I am still working - that both contracts continue because I am doing well

Well, I know I'll be in a better place. I'll be living in Europe and out of the boiling pot of shit that is murica. I think I will feel liberated and happy. I will probably be off my antidepressants. If my upcoming prostate surgery is a success, I will be off my prostate meds. I will be more active, thinner, and healthier. Unless the fuhrer gets us all blown up or starts putting us in camps before then, overall, 2026 is going to be a much hapiper year and a much happier me!

I hope I am on course for a different economic situation. I fear that I will be discouraged that I am not.

I hope I feel more at ease. I hope I feel less busy. I hope I feel more present.

Well thank goodness my notion that some illness I feared would happen to me did not in fact I’m in better shape this year than last year. Hopefully I’ll be in even better shape next year as a result of the physical therapy I am undergoing now.

I am hopeful that I will make better decisions and that I will live within my means from here on out. I believe in myself and want to feel fulfilled and happy in the next year.

This answer seems as good as any: Once again, I suppose I'll look back and think, " Well, that was last year and. things are different now, to a degree, anyway." I hope to remain on a relatively even keel, but also feel that life is becoming more tenuous as I age and that takes a physical toll. One day at a time, eh? But also, I think it might be time to not do 10-Q anymore, I no longer find the exercise of answering the questions helpful, and getting through them this year has been a tedious chore.

Looking back at last year, the genocide in Gaza continues. Trump is back in office. The government is shutting down. Things are dire. I hope next year happens. I hope we're all still here and not suffering. I hope we survive. I hope we show up for each other in the ways that are needed. I hope we find a better future.

Hopefully I will have accomplished goals I have listed for the coming year. It was very satisfying to look back on last years answers and to see that I HAD completed several things on my list

I hope we are close to preserving democracy. If we are not I have trouble imagining my life.

It is always interesting to see the prior answers. My life has changed a lot. Might be nice to not be alone. Might be nice to have a better job. God provides.

I think things will likely be a lot different. This time next year my fiancee and I will be getting married, we will also hopefully be moving out of our apartment and into a bigger house. I'm also hoping that when I receive these questions I will have finished up the last bit of my school work and hopefully I'll be sitting here waiting for my degree to arrive. I think over the next year I'll also be reflecting a lot on what my next steps will be after I graduate including potentially law school. I'm really excited to reflect on my responses for next year and see just how much has changed. Also very excited to see my bride.

I will be surprised that I did not write as much about our new grandchild and Mimi and Spencer's first child on its way. We plan to move closer to them for awhile and travel on the East coast when we're not needed. I'll be happy that the stories are coming along. I'll look at this set of answers and think that the exercise of answering the questions holds myself accountable to my goals--writing, keeping strong, supporting the family, learning about the dharma and continuously improving. In a way I make a promise to myself at this time. This is how I seek to grow and support others. I am grateful.

I think that I be more settled, less anxious and focussed. I will have absorbed the hole left by mom's death and will find myself in a fulfilling world.

I hope my life has become less stressful and wherever I am, I feel safe. I also hope my children will be safe and happy.

I hope I'm healthy and happy with Phil. I really want to have more patience with him, which is going to be important in the coming years. Also, I need to continue to find joy and feed my soul. I hope my life stays exactly the same- I'm so lucky to have a wonderful healthy husband, beautiful and sweet grandchildren, a son and DIL I'm very proud of, and not wanting for anything. Why would I want this to change?

I’ve been doing 10Q for many years, and I usually feel delighted to see my year’s answers at year-end. There are surprises, feelings of accomplishment, and sometimes chagrin, but I love this process and am grateful for it.

I think I will feel amazed by how much I could not yet know, and also proud of myself for knowing that I can’t know. I know that giving birth to my daughter will be an absolutely psychedelic, life-altering portal. I know that the entire texture and rhythm and meaning of my life will be different at this time next year. At that point she will be ~7 months old, and I hope for myself that I will feel a little more settled in to the new paradigm. That the tornado phase will be over, the house will have landed in Oz and I will feel ready to set off on my new yellow brick road. I hope I will be ready to start growing some of these seeds I have been planting. And if not, that’s okay too… that’s what I mean by knowing that I can’t know. I have no idea what this new future will throw at me, and I afford myself the grace to take the time I need to figure it out. I hope I will feel surrounded by my village, that these friendships I have been establishing will be blossoming in new ways. Some friends will fall away, but new ones will come into focus. I hope I will have found new communities of other parents. I trust myself to do the work for myself and for our child to make sure we are well integrated. It’s not always easy, but I’m glad I live the life examined… it helps me point myself in the direction of my own continued growth and flourishing, to never stagnate for long. I see for myself a very rich period of abundance, joy and love in my home.

I will feel inspired by who I am now, everything I've been accomplished & succeeded in. Let's goo! Let's keep going & live our best life!

I am always surprised at how prescient my answers were - maybe we do determine our own fate. So with that - I hope not to feel fear, not the opposite of fear, rather the absence of fear. I want to wake up every morning and find ways to do good in this world - and not fear that something else is being squashed. I want to live as a global person - and not fear that I may be detained as I cross a border. I want to live a productive life - and not fear that this will draw attention and harm me or my family. Above all, can I say that I want life to be more predictably - and not fear that the chaos that surrounds us will continue to dominate our lives.

I hope that I will feel more fully me, that I am unapologetically myself in all spaces I discern are safe for me, and that I embrace my truth of the moment.

I hope I will see that I have dealt with some questions and that I have new answers to the questions in 2026. I think my life will benefit from these questions because they steered me through a path of reflection, looking outward and returning. May we all be inscribed in the Book of life, soon and soon sealed too!

I am always excited when 10Q comes around. I surprise myself in terms of what I thought a year ago -- how much my position changed or stayed the same. As ever, I hope that I am in a better place than I was a year ago. I hope I continue to appreciate the moment of reflection and self-awareness that this exercise offers me each year. I just hope I am continuing to strive toward my highest self, doing what I need to do without hurting anybody.

I'm hoping I'll feel relieved that the worst has passed, and that things are looking better. But I imagine I'll feel compassion for myself - this shit is hard. I'm hoping I'll have a draft of my book done, and will have a routine built in which I can do meaningful work, grow in meaningful ways, and be the parent, spouse, child and friend people need of me.

I want to have some amazing experiences this year. I want to be open and to grow.

I hope it makes me happy. Some things I have answered are sad. I hope it makes me reflect on the year. I like to feel good everyday if I can, I have enjoyed this exercise and look forward to reading all of it next year. My hope: I’m happy. Calm. Financially ok. Settled. Fit. Healthy. Maybe traveling with a groovy boyfriend. ♥️

I think I’ll be proud of myself for getting back into this habit after taking last year off.

Ecstatic, because I’ll still be here. An added bonus will be if life continues on an upward tangent. In this next year I plan to spend more time in “the great outdoors”. Want to make like Bilbo Baggins and slip away from the Shire.

I hope my answer to #9 (what do you fear?") will have changed. I hope that our country will be less hateful and violent. I hope that our government won't be gleefully cruel towards people they perceive as less than human.

I have made important life decisions this past month regarding what I really wanted…partner, travel, health, happiness. I hope I feel grateful for my decisions and that the difference between now and then will be that I have become more comfortable and speaking my truth, and being honest with others and myself.

I hope I will feel less stressed about the past year, about the war in the Middle East, and about the future of the Jews, my family. I hope my faith in humanity will be somewhat restored.

I suspect many of them will surprise me and many of my answers will have been forgotten. So much happens in a year and I can't even imagine what lies in store.

Reading some of the other participants answers, I really wish I had more to say! A year ago I weighed 144 and thought that was IT... then I went back to WW and LOST 5 pounds - before I started working again, I went to the gym 3x week walked 2 miles in 20 minutes which isn't all that fast, but it WAS an accomplishment. I'm fine with 139-141 - at this point in my life (and age) no one really cares but ME, so I'll just keep doing the best I can at that and try to stay as healthy as I can in other ways! One strange change is that I've almost completely stopped drinking wine. Totally lost my taste for it, so now I have 1 beer when I get home from work, which saves me a LOT of $$ too. I sincerley hope that by this time next year the law suit will be VERY successful and that we'll have enough $ to MOVE to maybe Santa Barbara where I won't have to work anymore. When I was young, the thought of "retirement" was Sooo far in the future, never even gave a thought to planning for it... BIG MISTAKE! Every year answering these 10 questions seems to go by faster and faster - maybe because it's only the end of Sept/Oct and stores are already putting out CHRISTMAS decorations! I do have more of an optimistic look in the overall world's future - seems we may all be tired of these endless wars and deaths - except for a few crazies out there of which there are always a few - mostly Demobrats - would be nice to ACTUALY have "peace on earth - good will toward men AND women" and the guts for these assholes to KNOW the difference! Don't have little kids to be concerned about and my kids will do just find with their kids, even IF they are all BOYS.. little bratty boys... who WILL someday grow up...success is measured in many ways, not nessessarilly financial ones. All in all, it was a pretty good year!

I hope that I will be at a very confident place, enjoying my life and appreciating the moment. I hope that Israel is at peace and that the remaining hostages come back home.

Hopefully I’ll feel happy to see so much growth. I hope I’ll feel less sad and more secure and strong and grounded and excited to do this all over again knowing how much can happen in a year. I hope me and the world are better than things are right now

Gratefully, compared to last year I emotionally feel somewhat better. I’m still frustrated by physical problems that seem out of my control, but I don’t feel the depression I felt last year, which is good. I am cautious, however because fall and winter by nature tend to be very low times for me. I don’t know why, but they have been in the past and I want to keep that at bay. By Rosh Hashanah next year, I hope to continue to feel some sense of positivity; to continue to recognize that good things in life outweigh the challenges, often. Notice, that I said often and not always because sometimes life does feel like it can be overwhelming. גמר חתימה טובה

When I open these responses in September 2026, one thing I'll know for sure is that I'll be very proud of myself for completing ALL of the 10Q questions. Not sure that I've ever done all of them. This is a testament to the fact that I'm doing a lot of self reflecting right now. It feels so good to just write these responses. Lovely to notice this. I hope that my son and I are both happy and healthy. Separate from answering these questions or not, I do wonder if both of my parents will still be alive in a year. I'm afraid that one of them may be gone already, they're both in such compromised states. I think that answering these questions continues to deepen my desire to reflect on my life, and I do think that it will continue throughout this coming year.

This year, I was pretty impressed with last year's answers. Doing this exercise has been improving my confidence. I wish the same for myself next year. I want to believe I will have been living with my partner for quite a while and I'll look back to my anxieties with relief and self-compassion.

Sadly I was right last year that there is still a genocidal war occurring this year. I hope — against hope — that the war is over when I read this next year, but the path to healing and justice is long and the shepherds are weary. It’s so hard to think into that future but I hope that I am grateful to my past self for doing the work that I do. I hope that I look back on the Palestine Solidarity Sukkot we’re planning and feel that I am creating the community I believe in, and was true to my values of tzedekah and chesed and tikkun olam. I hope I’ll be writing more/again as a result of these reflections and that this deepening of practice is something I feel grateful for, knowing that its roots were seeds planted here.

I fear that I’ll look back and think 2025 was pretty good compared to what I anticipate lies ahead for the US in the next year. I’m truly worried that an already volatile society and political landscape focused on hate and devision will just continue to get worse if there’s no accountability for the dictatorship Trump is quickly becoming. That said, I still hope that I’ve put in some work on being a more grounded, relaxed, balanced person. It’s not reasonable to say I’ll do a 180 but I’d like to have made progress and have at least a few things in my toolbox to help me manage the turbulent times that are here and worsening. Oh, and stop people pleasing. Do what you want and let others get on board!!

The recent months have been quite taxing. Between my children's issues and my own personal health problems (the parathyroid, in case I forget by next year), and the collapse of our democratic society, all i feel is overwhelm at this time. I hope that next year I can feel more optimistic. To be able to see the threads that link my journey over the years shows me that I still work on mostly the same things. It shows me that life has huge ups and downs and a hell of a lot of unpredictability, and i still try to put one foot in front of the other and show up.

Well reading last year's answer...things do carry forward. I still don't have a job, but I have something of a story and at least a tentative plan. I still don't have a community, but I've made a new friend. If next year things are only a baby steps beyond their current state then...well, I should stop and breathe and be thankful - because life can be turned upside down in a moment. I am grateful for this exercise and this website, it makes me feel less alone on the journey.

I will feel emotional that another year has passed. I will look back and see how I have changed and if I feel any different. I hope my family will continue to be healthy. I will continue to make good financial decisions and improve my life and health. I will also be happy to be close to finishing my conversion.

I will always be glad to review my progress! I hope to have made headway in my health journey. Mainly, I pray to be feeling more peace regardless world "noise"!

Hopefully accomplished and be almost debt free and have a Master Captain’s License.

I want to feel hopeful when September 2026 rolls around. I hope that I’ll have put more focus into my writing and into myself as a person.

I'm trying not to predict too much about the future at the moment, but I certainly hope that I was able to accomplish everything that I set out to do. That journey starts today

I hope, and have high expectations, that I will be settled into a new job, focused on interesting computational modeling, less subject to the chaos and uncertainty we now have in the government.

I hope I will feel proud of the progress I have made and feel happy and content with my life as it is, connected to those who matter.

I really hope that I am still with Sam and we are building a life together. I hope that this is a result of us both exploring our shared and separate interests/desires/goals and helping each other do so. I hope that we put all the time in we can to having great communication and feel safe with one and another. I hope we both feel good about all 10 answers and that neither of us got in each others way in achieving them.

I hope the world is better. I hope that I knew what country I'll be in. I hope to have a new job. I hope to feel content. I hope to feel whole.

I hope I feel a sense of accomplishment in work, where I feel like I haven't just chased money and have instead chased impact without the thought of money. I hope I've been a present father and husband, and I hope these questions have made me think about what's possible in a year, and that I've spent the year executing towards this:, focusing on value-add, not wasting time on negatives and things I can't control