Every new year we come up with new things that we would like to change – and that is no surprise.  It is also not surprising that most of the goals that we would like to complete fail within the first two weeks.  There is a very simple reason for this: big life-changing goals are hard to make into habits.  While they may be difficult stick to, your new year resolutions are not impossible to accomplish.  However, if you expect to change long-ingrained habits, you need a concrete way to track progress toward your goals.

David Seah is a designer who created the Concrete Goals Tracker.  The original purpose of the goals tracker was to allow him to ensure that he was spending time doing the things that truly made his business better.  The great thing is, he made an editable version – which means that you can use it for just about anything that you want.

The Concrete Goals Tracker allots points for specific tasks that help to further an overall change that you want to see.  For example, since I am freelancing I use the goals tracker to make certain that I am spending the majority of my time doing things that will sustain and grow my business.  Although writing blog posts may be fun, it does not pay the bills (or the taxes involved with a business).  However, that doesn’t mean that blogging and self-promotion is not important to a business, but they are not as important as signing up new clients.

Just to reiterate, the purpose of the goal tracker is not to be a task management system that you use forever.  You will most likely use it for a few weeks to a few months in order to change your mindset and habits toward your goals.  For a full explanation of the free template and to actually download it, you can head over to David Seah’s site.

Concrete Goals Tracker [Original Site]