How to Plan Your Yearly Goals
In this article, I want to help you fill out the Goals For the Year page that comes with each planner. The objective of this page is to come up with specific goals rather than vague goals. So for example, a good yearly goal would be “workout two times a week” rather than just “lose weight.”
The yearly goals spread is divided into eight categories: personal goals, spiritual goals, physical goals, household goals, financial goals, social goals, marital goals, and generosity goals. Each category also has two boxes to fill in, what you need to avoid and what you need to do to achieve the goals.
You can fill this page out by writing down as many goals as you can think of and then picking one that is your priority and filling out the “I need to avoid” and “I need to do” boxes for just that goal, or you can fill out the boxes for all the goals.
Let’s start by going through all the categories and coming up with some ideas for goals in those categories.
Personal Goals:
Learn a Chopin sonata on the piano
Read twelve books this year
Move from B1 to B2 in German
Take a painting class
Spiritual Goals:
Say a Rosary every day
Go to Mass twice a week
Fast on all Fridays during Lent
Meditate 15 minutes a day
Physical Goals:
Run a 5k race
Learn three new hairstyles
Go on a walk every morning
Eat breakfast every morning
Household Goals:
Meal Plan each week
Clean out medicine closet
Plant a garden
Clean one room a day
Financial Goals:
Pay an extra $200/month towards the mortgage
Save $2000 for a vacation
Start cash budgeting
Social Goals:
Host two parties this year
Hang out with friends after Mass
RSVP to invites right away
Marital Goals
Look presentable when husband comes home
Be cheerful even when tired
Pray for husband every day
Write husband a note each week
Generosity Goals:
Text siblings on their birthday
Donate $500/month to parish
Make meals for new mothers five times
After you come up with your goals, you can fill out the boxes that go with them. For example, for the goal “Read twelve books this year,” you could write “I need to avoid picking up my phone when bored” and “I need to put a book next to my rocking chair.”
I hope this helps you fill our your goals for the year page!