Meghan Markle Once Wrote These Two New Year’s Resolutions Make Her List ‘Every Single Year’

Meghan opened up about her resolutions in a post on her former lifestyle blog, The Tig — and added how she planned to “leave room for magic”

Rachel Burchfield serves as digital editor, royals at PEOPLE. She has worked at PEOPLE since August 2024, and her work has previously appeared in Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.

Published on January 1, 2025 10:00AM EST

Just six months before she would meet her future husband Prince Harry, Meghan Markle wrote a set of New Year’s resolutions on her now-shuttered blog, The Tig.

In the post, Meghan, now 43, shared that she has the same two resolutions each year: to stop swearing and to stop biting her nails.

“These make my New Year’s resolution list nearly (AKA actually every) single year,” Meghan wrote.

“The swearing comes in lulls triggered by being overworked or feeling mighty cheeky after a couple drinks,” she continued. “And when it comes to the biting of the nails — well, it still happens with a turbulent flight or a stressful day. It’s unladylike. But then again, so is the swearing. Dammit.”

In that same post from The Tig — which Meghan closed ahead of her 2018 royal wedding to Harry — Meghan shared that she had allowed other New Year’s resolutions like re-learning French or running a marathon to take a backseat, and that in 2016 “the only thing I aim to do is to approach life playfully,” she wrote, adding that she had chosen to “resolve to not have a resolution” that year.

“To laugh and enjoy, to keep my standards high but my level of self-acceptance higher,” she added. “My New Year’s resolution is to leave room for magic. To make my plans, and be okay if they sometimes break. To set my goals, but to be open to change. To let the magic know that there is an open door policy with me in 2016 and that it is always welcome to join the party.”

Nearly six months to the day later, she’d meet Harry on a blind date over the summer; the two would announce their engagement on Nov. 27, 2017 before marrying the next May at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor. Since then, they’ve welcomed kids Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3, and stepped back from their roles as working royals nearly five years ago on Jan. 8, 2020.

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Of her challenge to let the magic in, Meghan told her readers, “I invite you to do the same. Have a beautiful, blissful, and incredibly magical 2016. So grateful to be with you on the ride.”

While 2016 was certainly an exciting year in Meghan’s life, 2025 looks to be exciting as well for Meghan, with the launch of her new Netflix show and her forthcoming lifestyle brand expected imminently.