2024 Goal Setting Guide - How to Set Goals You’ll Actually Achieve

The pressure to create, have and achieve goals in our 20’s & 30’s is huge and frankly, annoying. If you don’t have goals, because you either don’t know what you want to achieve or because you don’t know how to set them, that’s okay, that’s normal - you don’t need to feel inadequate or insecure because of this - I certainly felt that pressure throughout my 20’s and it was rubbish! 

Fast forward a few years, I’ve finally found a goal setting system which works beautifully and it’s completely changed the way I think about goals, the way I set goals and the way I achieve them as well. And I’m giving you a walk through of this process in this week’s podcast episode.

Key Takeaways:
-  You can set goals in any way you want, about anything you want as long as it’s something important and meaningful to you.
- It’s always quality over quantity when it comes to goal setting
- If you don’t achieve your goal by the deadline you’ve set, it really doesn’t matter. The main thing is that you are working towards it and you are making progress.
- A popular approach to goal setting is SMART goals. Smart is an acronym which stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely.

Here are the steps to follow to create your own goals for 2024:
1. Review different aspects of your life such as self care, personal development, professional development, finances, love etc and give them a score out of ten on how satisfied you are in those areas at the moment.
2. Think about what you want that score to be at the end of year.
3. Give yourself a score for where you want to be at the end of each quarter in the year which will help you to lead up to your ideal score by the end of the year.
4. Give yourself 1-3 actions to take each quarter (quarter is 3 months) which will allow you to get the score you want to achieve that quarter and will help you achieve the overall score you are aiming for by the end of the year.
5. The end result is a list of actions you will take throughout the year which will hopefully result in your reaching your ideal satisfaction score in the areas of your life which are most important to you. 

Open the Goal Setting Template here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mSymcJzdyttPKR6AnE73AifBvNGf0jJk7UuZKz_BRls/edit#gid=0

 

To edit the template follow the steps below:

If you have a Google (Gmail) Account:

1. Make sure you are logged into your Google Account 
2. Open the template via the link above 
3. Click ‘File’ > ‘Make A Copy’ and a new version will open up which is your personal spreadsheet to use. You will see an example sheet in the spreadsheet which you can use to help you. 

If you don’t have a Google (Gmail) Account:

1. Open the template via the link above 
2. Click ‘File’ > ‘Download’ and download the spreadsheet in excel (Microsoft) or Numbers (Apple). You will see an example sheet in the spreadsheet which you can use to help you. 

If you have any questions about setting your goals or using the template, DM me on Instagram @lovemyquarterlife - I’d love to hear from you!

Best of luck!

Beth x