Create Your Personal Goal Planner (Free Template)

How My Goal Planner Went From Sad to… Less Sad

Okay real talk—my first “Personal Goal Planner” was just Post-its on my bathroom mirror that said stuff like “BE BETTER” until my roommate pointed out it looked like a hostage note. Turns out, personal goal planning works better when you, y’know, write actual steps. Who knew?

3 Reasons Your Planner Fails (From Experience)

1. You treat goals like New Year’s Eve you
   • That version of you who swears they’ll “meal prep” and “journal daily” is a LIAR
   • My fix: Tiny goals. “Eat one vegetable” counts.
2. You forget humans need naps
   • My old planner had zero white space, just guilt
   • Now I block off “existential dread time” (it helps)
3. You use pens that bleed through pages
   • Aesthetic ≠ functional
   • Current system: Pencil. So I can erase my failures.

What’s Different About This Free Template

• Actual blank spaces (for when life happens)
• A “win” column (crossing off “didn’t cry today” counts)
• No toxic positivity (it’s okay to write “this week sucked”)

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Download It Here (No Strings, Unlike My Gym Membership)

Get the free template – it’s PDF so you can’t “accidentally” delete it like my motivation.

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Final Confessions

• I once wrote “be someone who folds fitted sheets” in my planner. I have regrets.
• The template has a typo on page 2. Left it in. Keeps things humble.

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Outbound links :

• Why crossing things off your to-do list feels so good” (BBC Worklife)
• The Case for “Good Enough” Personal Goal Planner (Harvard Business Review)