You’re super goal-driven. You like to get things done quickly and efficiently.
You understand that we only have one life to live and you’re here to make waves for Jesus Christ, not sit on the sidelines watching everyone else do it. 🥰 You want to be used by God, your Creator, the love of your life, in ways that only He can fathom.
In order to be used by Him, YOUR time must be diligently worked and intentional.
But even for the most goal-driven person, we can still get off track, go down the wrong road, and end up where we don’t wanna be.
That’s what happened to me recently. 😔
Little by little, I slipped off of the path I was born to do, the path I want to do with all my heart and I remembered…where’s my goals sheet?!
THIS is why I slipped off course! I wasn’t planning my year in my goals sheet and so I quickly created one (a cute coloring printable goals sheet) and started filling it out immediately.
And of course immediately, I felt myself getting back on track with my life, cutting out the unnecessary things (time clutter) and working toward those handful of things I want to accomplish each and every month in order to be where I want to be in a year from now.
Use this free printable goals sheet to color as a roadmap for your life.
Figure out where YOU want to be in a year, and then write in all the tasks and goals you need to hit along the way in order to reach that target in a year.
Lemme show you exactly how I do it… 🥰
Printable Goals Sheet to Color
How do you set up goals?
The first step is to figure out your ultimate one-year goal, as many as you have, and then we’ll break it down into one bite-sized goal.
For me, that’s Pinterest. I stopped using Pinterest over the past couple years and my traffic started going down. I was getting 100,000 Pinterest traffics a month and over time, it just dwindled down to now, a couple thousand hits a month. 🫣 I want to grow it back up, and so I’m focusing on my views right now in order to grow. I need that visibility so others can see that I’m here, making cute stuff, and fall in love with it. Later, I can work on exact traffic clicks goals, but right now, it’s just about being seen again.
I’m starting at 515,000 views per month (on August 21), which is a terrible stat, I know, but that’s why I’m starting! 🥰
I want to end up at 5 million views per month in one year. So, September 1 of next year, that’s where I want to be.
Now it’s just about breaking down that goal. For the first month, I take a look at how many more views I usually gain per month, then push the envelope a bit more.
Since I don’t get any new/more views each month, 😆 I’m starting at zero and don’t really have a good base to know what I can expect, so it does make the goals process a little harder for this specific goal.
When that happens, I don’t make any goals for a month. I start working the platform and see that first month, tracking my daily increase as I go of how many more views I get. This will give me a good baseline of what’s possible.
At first, when I started working Pinterest, my views DROPPED immediately. Don’t freak out! This is normal. Pinterest is trying to figure out your new patterns and habits and it’ll eventually go up if you just give it time. Just trust that you doing the work will gain you a reward and keep going. ❤️
I went from 515k views on August 21 to 490.5k views on September 2.
After that, it started to gain a little traction and go up.
September 3, I was at 494.4k views. Recording my views daily on my calendars, by September 30, I was at 555.5k views. So, this tells me that after about a month (not counting the initial drop for Pinterest to recognize that I’m working the platform again), I gain about 40k views/month.
This isn’t a lot, I have to admit and I know, from blogging for 12 years now, that Pinterest goes a little slow for the algorithms to understand what you’re doing and that’s okay. The system is learning my new patterns (that I’m actually working their site now). 😊
But 40k is not a lot at all. It won’t get me to 5 million in a year at this pace. So, I doubled my efforts the next month and that’s when I start to fly. 🎉
I started October 1 at 566.3k views and on October 20, I officially hit 1 million views and by October 31, I’m sitting at 1.7 million!!! 🥳
Why am I sharing all this?
When you start to set your goals, you really need a good baseline of what you’re CURRENTLY getting and then where you wanna be in a year, in order to set those monthly goals.
Now I have a good benchmark of what’s possible and what I can do.
So my Pinterest views goals look like this:
- November – 2 million
- December – 2.5 million
- January – 3 million
- February – 3.5 million
- March – 4 million
- April – 4.5 million
- May – 5 million
This puts my goal for 5 million at 9 months instead of 1 year and that’s okay because just in case I don’t grow as fast as I want to, I can always adapt those goals.
But making these goals allows me to focus on the parts of my life that I want to change, grow, and increase. It breaks them down into smaller bite-sized pieces so that I’m not feeling overwhelmed by looking at the big picture all at once and helps me know what to focus on each month.
It’s currently November 18, at the time I’m writing this post, and I’m sitting right now, today, at 1.76 million views. Over half of the month is already over, so I may NOT hit my 2 million views goal by December 1. If I don’t, it’s okay. The point of this is to try to do everything I can to hit the next goal. Not looking at the 5 million views mark, but whatever the current month’s goal is.
This keeps the goal at the front and center of my day and helps me to take actions that lead me and line up to that goal.
This is just one of my goals on a monthly basis, but I hope that by breaking it down and showing you my exact process of how I personally do it, you can apply these same principles to your life and your business and be able to crush your goals consistently, too! 🎉
This goals planner (with months all laid out) is great for those bite-sized goals you’re trying to accomplish in one year!
Download your free printable coloring goals sheet.
