Happy New Year! A new year has finally begun.
Have you ever had the experience of setting a goal like, "This year, I'm definitely going to do XX!" only to not achieve it? It's often harder than you think to set goals and consciously live each day to achieve them.
This time, we're introducing the "Goal Achievement Notebook Template" to help you set goals, track your daily habits and journal entries to get closer to them, and review your progress monthly and annually.
Even ambitious goals will surely become more attainable if you leverage habits and regular reviews. This year, let's achieve your goals by using this page!
🎬 Director：Rei
✍🏻 Writer：Minokurumi
1. Template Overview
The template is composed of four main parts: a "Goals" section for writing down your objectives, a "Daily Logs" section for recording daily habits and journal entries, a "Monthly Review" section, and a "Annual Review" section.
There are a total of four databases, each corresponding to the parts below. For more details, please open the actual database in the template.
- DB_Goals: Database for the "Goals" section
- DB_Day: Database for the "Daily Logs" section
- DB_Month: Database for the "Monthly Review" section
- DB_Year: Database for the "Annual Review" section
This template uses the four databases mentioned above and links them together using the "Relation function."
💡What is the Relation function?It is a function that links multiple databases. For example, by linking the "Year" and "Month" databases to the "Goals" database, you can select the year and month for executing that goal in the property section. The "Year" and "Month" databases will also display the content of the "Goal" in their properties.
2. Let's write down your goals
First, let's write down the goals you want to achieve this year in the "Goals" section.
- Create a new page by clicking the "+ New" button.
- Open the page and write your goal in the title.
- Select the genre using tags.
- In "DB_Year," select the page for the current year.
- In "DB_Month," select the specific month you want to work on that goal.
By selecting the year and month here, your goals will be reflected in the monthly and annual reviews that we will introduce later.
3. Let's manage daily habits and journals
In the "Daily Logs" section, you can manage both habits and your journal. We've combined the "Habit Tracker Template" and the "Journal Template" into a single database.
First, let's decide on the items you want to make into habits. A good tip here is to consider how these habits can help you achieve the goals you set earlier. For example, if you have a goal of "starting to study English," try incorporating English study into your daily habits.
Once you've set your habit items, start logging your day. Open the page, check off your habits, and write in your journal section. When you check off a habit, the achievement rate is automatically displayed, making it easy to see your progress at a glance.
And when you select the target month in the "Goals" section, the goals also appear here. This way, you can see your goals every day, making it easier to stay focused on them.
3. Let's do a review
3-1. Review monthly
Once you've set goals, it's also important to review whether you've achieved them. After each month ends, let's do a monthly review.
For monthly reviews, use the "Monthly Review" section. Open the page for the month you want to review.
This monthly page is linked to the "Daily Logs" and "Goals" databases, so when you open the page, you can check the habit achievement status and goals for that month.
You can see at a glance how much progress you've made on your habits, making it easy to identify which habits you've maintained and which you haven't.
You can also check the goals you set for that month here, and mark them as achieved if they are.
Finally, write your monthly review in the "Review" section. Reflecting on habits you couldn't maintain or goals you didn't achieve, and asking "why couldn't I do it?" might provide insights for how to approach the next month.
3-2. Review annually
At the end of the year, just like the monthly review, let's comprehensively review the entire year from the "Annual Review" section.
When you open the page, you can review the annual habit achievement rate and how many of the goals you set for that year you were able to achieve.
Similar to the monthly review, write a comprehensive review of the entire year in the "Review" section.
When setting goals for the next year, please refer to the previous year's review page.
Summary
That concludes our introduction to the "Goal Achievement Notebook" template!
This page is perfect for the beginning of the year, so please take this opportunity to utilize the template.
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(Supervised by Rei, Edited and Written by Minokurumi)
