My 2018 Yearly Goals Spread

Hello, Butterflies

Today I want to share with you all how I do my Yearly Goals Spread. This spread can be used any time of the year to help set goals. I use this spread to give myself a deadline for each of my goal. 


This spread was inspired by Emma Tildesley New Bullet Journal Set Up 2018. I did change the layout to fit my needs, by adding action steps boxes. 

Each box contains

• Goal 
• Why and How 
• Milestone Steps 1,2 and 3 
• Milestone 1and 2 with Target Date
• Completion Target Date

I find each year I set goals and don't complete. Due to not checking in on my goals or just not having a time frame that I would like to have them completed by. 

I found using this Goals box in December I was able to get a couple of my larger projects done in the time frame I wanted. 

I will also be adding the Goals Box to my monthly spreads to help me achieve my monthly goals.

If you're like me and find that you are setting goals and not reaching them, maybe if you set a deadline to get them completed it will help you. Give it a try and see if it works for you.

If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to leave them below in the commits. 

I would love to hear from you!

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Tips How to Reach Your Goals

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Today I want to share with you some tips that I use to help me reach my goals for the day, week and month. 

Let me be honest I was not that person that set goals for myself, I did not see the point in doing it I was not going to reach them.  When I did set them I just picked something that was important for my mom and not me. With doing that I just did not put in any work into reaching it. 

Now that I am older I look back and think why did I not set goals? Goals are there to help me make changes I want and not someone else. So then I starting goals and still finding at the end of the year not reaching them.  I knew I was doing something wrong! When I was younger I was shown here is your goal now get it done. I did not know that there were steps to get to them. 

So over the years I have read, watched Youtube videos and sat in on speakers talking about goal setting.

So now I had the basic way to set goals and to break it into small steps, but still was not reaching them. So I decided that it was time to set down and work on my goals! In the meanwhile, I found that I was also needing a list of things to do so that I could work on the goal each day.

Planning Routine

I sat down at night planned out the next day, and add one of the small steps in for my goal. I would get up the next morning and look over the plans I had set the night before and put them order on how I want to get them down.

That was good and all but found that I was not focusing on getting the task wrote down done. I found myself cleaning the kitchen and putting away clean clothes instead of working my tasks list. 

Preparing

So each night I would clean the kitchen and any other small task before bed so that I knew I would be working on my plans for the next day. I would also lay out my kid's clothes and my the night before. After a couple of weeks, I then started to get out bowls or plates for breakfast instead of rushing in the morning.

 When I did all these things the family had more time to talk about things they had to do for the day which would set the day to be a good one for all of us.  The days I would oversleep and be rushed to make breakfast the day was off for the whole family.


Weekly Planning 

I was not there yet of making the goals I had set in my daily plans.  So I would then set down and plan my week out with just my goal plans so that I knew ahead of time what I need to do get done each day. This worked out great, but then I would hit bumps in the road. In the middle of the week, I would have to add a task that needed to get done right away and would take most of the day. This where I learn to double up to small goal task or just move everything a day head. 


Talking about Goals

I would get stressed out over having to move my goals to another day. So it was time to talk to my husband about the problems I was having with my goals. Telling him what my goals I had set for myself help me as he could give advice and reassure me that I could meet my goals. He would ask me before we went to bed about the day's goals if I got them done. 

If there was any way he could help me get them done if I did finish them that day. Like he would take the kid's to the park to play for an hour so that I could catch up and not feel like stressed about not finishing the goal.


Project Planning

I need a way to split my task and my goals, so why not turn them into a project and set a deadline to get each project to get done. This way I could take the small goals and turn them in to project for the week and I would not stress about moving them around each day if something else came up. 


Tracking Goal Progress

Now I need a way to track my goals. So being a woman that like to make lists that what I did and each time the project was started I would put one line thought the bullet for the project. When the project was done I would put the second line across the bullet to show that I had completed it. By the end of the year, I was reaching some goals and others very close to finishing them. 


Don't Be Hard on Yourself

My husband reminded me that I should not be hard on myself for not finishing some goals as there is next year and I would figure out a better way to get it done.


Reward 

The year after when I set up my goals and broke them into a small project I also put a reward that I would give my self for reaching my goal. My loving husband would also help with the rewards for some of my goals which help me reach the goals I had that year. 

So If you are having problems reaching your goals to give these tips a try.

• Planning Routine
• Preparing
• Weekly Planning
• Talking about Goals
• Project Planning
• Tracking Goal Progress
• Don't Be Hard on Yourself
• Reward 

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Thank You for stopping by!

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2018 Goals

Hello, Butterflies

I know it's only November and you have 2018 goals! I start the process of goal setting in October for the year 2018. Today I would like to share with you how I start the process of goal setting. 

The reason I start goal setting in October is that October is my drafting month. By the end of November, I will have my goals. In December I will have my goals into a small project that I can do throughout the year. So when January 1st is here I can start my goals for the year. 

To start I have 7 questions I will ask myself at the beginning of October.

• What do you want?
• Why do you want it?
• Whats holding you back?
• What will you do to get it?
• How will you prioritize it?
• How will you reward yourself?

I will write these question into my Bullet Journal or in an Insert I have in my Traveler's Notebook. This way I can go back anytime and look at the question or answer it. I will make sure to look at the question at less once a week to keep them fresh in my mind.

I will also us the Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely "SMART" when I am writing my goals down. 

At the end of November, I have my goals! Now its time to brack them down into small projects. I have written a post on my project planning if you would like to see how I do project planning CLICK HERE. 

This way each month, each week and each day I am working on my goals that I have set for the year. I will also do a goals review in September to see what goals I have completed so far and ones I should finish by the end of the year. If I see a goal that I will not reach I may move it to the following year and better plan that goal within my project planning.

I hope this helps your process of setting your 2018 goals.

If you have any questions or suggestions please free to leave them below in the commits. 

Thank You for stopping by!

As Always Have A Good Day Butterflies, See You Soon.