Yearly Goals For All Areas Of Your Life

I love goal setting and in my opinion, there’s no better time to set some big goals for yourself than the new year. Today we’re going to look at yearly goal setting for all areas of your life. We’re going to cover 8 key areas of your life…

1. Your Physical Environment (your home and anywhere else you spend a lot of time)
2. Your business life/career
3. Finances
4. Health and wellbeing
5. Family and friends
6. Romance and relationships
7. Personal growth
8. Fun and recreation

If you haven’t already, I encourage you to read How to find balance in all areas of your life. This will really help you understand what’s important to you personally.

What’s your why? Pst… You need this!

With any goal, you must know why you want to achieve it and it must be strong for you personally (not just important for other people).

Look at each area of your life and ask yourself What do I want to achieve in this area of my life this year? Write anything down that comes to mind and then ask Why do I want this? Keep digging, Why is this really important to me? Make your why super strong so that it creates an emotion.

Where are you now and where do you want to be?

At the beginning of each year, it’s important to note where you are at that point. This way you have a clear way to measure your success with any goals throughout the year.

A couple of examples are… At the start of the year, my monthly income is… At the beginning of the year, my weight is…

Write down where you are in all of the key areas of your life and then you will use this to help motivate you throughout the year to see how much you’ve achieved.

The key areas of life

For most of us, we have 8 key areas of life. You may have more that you want to add and that’s absolutely fine. Let’s look at them a little closer.

1. Your Physical Environment – Your home, workplace, it might even be the car if you spend a lot of your time driving, even a hotel room if you travel a lot.
2. Your business life/career – I’d also place education in this area where it helps you in your business or career.
3. Finances – Monthly/yearly income, savings, investments…
4. Health and wellbeing – This may include things like improving your fitness levels, losing weight, how you want to feel, improving your health…
5. Family and friends – This could be things like improving relationships, finding more friends, making sure you dedicate more time to these people…
6. Romance and relationships – This also includes your relationship with yourself
7. Personal growth – Any area where you want to grow. This can be things like improving your confidence, learning a new language, learning a new skill, reading more, listening to more audiobooks, learning to meditate, running a marathon… Anything that you feel improves you as a person
8. Fun and recreation – Holidays, days out, how you spend time and maybe who with, how you like to relax and enjoy life

Now, some of these areas might already be great and you just want to maintain them and some areas you may want to make lots of changes. That’s absolutely fine. What I would say though is to really pay attention to where you are now and ask yourself “Can I make this area of my life even better?” Also, “What would make this area of my life even better?“

Setting your goals for the year

I encourage you to use SMART GOALS. These are…

• S – Specific
• M – Measurable
• A – Achievable
• R – Relevant
• T – Time-Based

Let’s take a closer look at each point. Also, read my Top Goal Setting Tips and the 3 most important factors of goal setting.

Specific

Vague goals lead to vague results. Let’s get specific. My goal is to go somewhere is open to all kinds of weird results. Two steps to the left is somewhere. My goal is to go to King’s Cross train station in London is a specific goal. I know that would be kind of a weird goal but you get the idea I’m sure.

Measurable

You need to know exactly when you’ve achieved a specific goal. If my goal was to be more confident, it’s pretty difficult to know exactly when you’ve achieved the goal. If that goal was to take a course to help improve your confidence or read a specific book to learn skills to build your confidence then you’d know the exact point you’d achieved that goal. Think… When I get to this point, I will have achieved this goal.

Achievable

Make sure your goals are actually achievable. My goal is to be a fully qualified doctor by the end of the year is not achievable if you haven’t yet started any training. My goal is to be accepted onto a training course to be a doctor (my sincere apologies for the wording, I’m sure I’ve made it sound really basic) by the end of this year is achievable. I always love people to aim high and set big goals but if they’re completely unachievable then your goal setting won’t be helpful for you.

Relevant

Think beyond this year. What is your ideal life like? I encourage you to tie your yearly goals in with your bigger life goals. For example, if Jane has a life goal to travel for 1 year but right now she does not have the funds, a good goal for her would be… My goal for this year is to save £30,000 for my travel fund plus plan out my year of travelling including estimated costs month by month.

Time-Based

Whilst these are your yearly goals, you can still set specific times to achieve the goals. They don’t have to take the entire year.

For example, if you want to focus on weight loss this year and you have a stone to lose to get to your goal weight, you may want to set that goal for an earlier time.

Maybe… My goal is to reach my goal weight of (…) by the end of February and maintain this weight right through the year. This would give you 2 dates to work with. The first is achieving your goal weight and the second the end of the year having maintained your weight.

Write your goals down

I strongly encourage you to write your SMART goals down and keep your goals in front of you throughout the year. I have a special Goals Book. In it, I write where I am at the start of the year.

I write my yearly goals and then each month as I go through the year I add my monthly goals. Having everything in one place really helps me to stay focused.

I encourage you to read your goals regularly – Ideal daily to keep your focus on what really matters to you.

Monthly goals

Each month, look at your yearly goals and create a smaller goal to achieve that month. For example, my yearly goal is to achieve ad revenue of £5k in a single month from my blogs.

A monthly goal would be to create 10 new posts to increase my blog traffic. Or, if the goal is to lose 3 stone in weight by the end of the year, a monthly goal could be to lose 5 pounds.

With your monthly goals, add in your action steps. What action do you need to take to achieve this goal?

If you head over to my MONTHLY GOALS SETTING blog post, there’s a free pdf download that you can print off.

Review Monthly

At the end of each month, review your progress. Maybe create a progress chart to measure your success.

I have an app-based bank and I have pots set up (separate savings pots for different things). I set a goal amount and as I add money, I can easily see my progress and I can see that I’m moving closer and closer to my goal.

This really helps to keep me motivated. You can do this for any goal and update it at the end of each month. If you’re techie I’m sure you can create a document, online graph?? I’m not techie so I do it using a good old-fashioned pen (crayons) and paper.

If you’re making good progress, well done. Keep going. If your progress is really slow or you’re not progressing at all, do a little digging and work out why so that you don’t continue that pattern the next month.

Yearly goal-setting for all areas of your life

Okay, let’s do a recap. Before I do, I’d like to wish you every success with all your goals.

• Look at all areas of your life and write down where you are right now
• Get clear about what you want to achieve in each area over the next year
• Use SMART GOALS – Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-based
• Write your goals down
• Set monthly goals
• Review every month

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