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If you’re looking for a way to organize, track and achieve your goals, the Goals Bullet Journal Planner System is for you!
Our DIY monthly goals planner system is a great way to stay on track with your goals if you struggle with the motivation and completion follow through. The system provides a monthly overview along with a doable daily action steps section.
In this tutorial, we will provide you with free printables to recreate this 12-month goals planner.
The importance of having goals cannot be overstated. Having a goal gives you something to strive for, and achieving it feels even better, giving you a great sense of accomplishment.
Whether you are a stay-at-home mom or a 9-5 working mom, we all have goals we know we would like to get done, but some people (like me) need a simple structure to make it happen. That is why I designed this, and I hope it will help you too!
By taking small, manageable steps toward your goal, you increase the likelihood of achieving it (source). Additionally, breaking down your goal into daily action steps can help you to better understand what you need to do to achieve it.
After I show you how to make the project book, I will explain how this simple system works in more detail.
(Supplies listed below with links are available on Amazon).
Supplies Needed
- Elmer’s spray adhesive
- Glue tape roller
- Heavy duty single hole puncher
- Scissors
- Decorative edger scissors (optional)
- Washi tape (optional)
- Stickers such as month labels or any decorative you may want
- 12 sheets of scrapbooking paper themed for each month of the year
- 12 decorative quality file folders
- Any additional pockets you wish to add (optional)
- Five-star heavyweight reinforced holes graph paper (optional)
- Our free Goals List & Daily Action Steps printables
- Any embellishments or hanging tags like my wooden house for example (optional)
Step one: Print the printables
Open your folders package. Print your sheets for each folder. Each folder will contain each month’s goals list and daily action steps.
So you will need 12 goal list printables and, at the very least, 12 daily action steps sheets. You can add as many daily action steps sheets if you need more than the one we will be attaching.
Step two: Trim the edges of your printables with decorative edger scissors.
Play with the sheets of paper and your folder and see what and how you want to trim them to fit the folders.
You can trim with regular scissors or decorative ones. I chose the decorative.
Step three: Punch holes in your folders.
I took a piece of the graph paper and layed on a folder, marking with a pen in the place I wanted each whole.
Step four: Spray-adhesive your sheets into place inside each folder.
Spray gently so too much does not come out at once in globs.
Place your goals list sheet on the left side of each opened folder. Place your daily action steps on the right-hand side of the folder.
Once the pages are dry you can add additional paper for writing notes if needed or the system can stand alone. I chose to have paper for notes.
I want to point out how amazing Five Star’s reinforced edges graph paper is. It works great in this ribbon binded planner without ripping when in use.
Step Five: Make your pockets for each month.
Cut your scrapbooking pages in half, cut then do a tri-fold. One sheet will give you two simple pockets for each month.
With the tri-fold, just take each edge and fold towards the center and make sure to make it the width you would like for your pockets.
If you would like a cleaner pocket opening edge, fold one long side of your paper.
Now take your glue tape roll and seal every joining edge. Just make sure to leave your opening for the pocket.
