PM01: Personal Goals Template
Bangin' Notion template for a 5-step personal goal setting and progress tracking in 2023.
Greetings everyone!
As we get ready to welcome in the New Year, it's week 52 and I've been reflecting on the past year and how I can become a better person in 2023. Aside from family gatherings and indulging in some over-eating, I'm also setting some goals for the upcoming year.
Setting goals has been proven to have positive effects on motivation, self-esteem, confidence, and autonomy. Studies in neuroscience have shown that goal-setting rewires the brain and creates new behaviors that help increase the likelihood of achieving the goal.
This time, rather than just typing up a list of goals, I decided to try to round-up my year summary in a short narrative (step 1). It helped me to identify the opportunities I have in this upcoming year, as well as what I call "sources of guilt". These are things that I've always wanted to do, but never got around to, and now I'm feeling guilty for wanting to start new ventures before I address them first.
I also used the narrative form set the intention and themes for 2023 (step 2), then broke them down into individual goals and sub-goals (step 3 and 4). I avoided output goals like "read X books" or "go to the gym Y times a week" and instead focused on the outcomes I wanted to achieve.
Of course, it's essential to stay consistent when it comes to goal setting. I'd recommend setting up a regular review and adjustment mechanism (step 5) that can help you stay in control of your destiny.
My reflections and goals turned out quite personal, so I will not share it. However, I saved the structure in a Notion template, so you can copy it and use it to set your own ambitious 2023 goals. I hope you'll find it useful and have some fun with it.
Here it is - Personal Goals Notion Template.
Here are some useful resources if you want to learn more about goal setting, why it could be effective, and what it does to your brain:
The Science of Setting and Achieving the Goals, by Andrew Huberman
Goal Setting: A Scientific Guide to Setting and Achieving Goals, by James Clear (the author of Atomic Habits book)
What Goal-Setting Does to Your Brain and Why It's Spectacularly Effective, by Geoffrey James