Free SMART Goals Template (Printable)

A goal setting worksheet built around the five SMART criteria, laid out as write-in rows with a short prompt under each letter. Pick up to three goals, run each one through the five rows, then set three review dates (30, 60, and 90 days out) and park a mid-point adjustment sheet for day 45. The page is evergreen: it works on January 1st, a Tuesday in July, or the first day of a quarter, and it's meant to be reprinted and redone. The full 21-page New Year 2027 Reset Planner is on Getly, linked at the bottom.

How to use this page: print it, write up to three goals in the list, then run each goal through the five rows below. Before you put the pen down, put the three review dates in your calendar as reminders. The mid-point sheet stays blank until roughly day 45.

Three goals, and that's the cap

Three fits on this page and three still gets reviewed at day 90. A list of ten is a wish list. Write each goal as one sentence, then test every sentence in the rows below before you commit ink to anything else.

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The five rows

One goal at a time. The prompt under each letter tells you what the row is actually asking; the blank next to it is where the answer goes. If a row stays blank after a minute of trying, that's the row that will kill the goal in week three, so fix it now.

LetterThe promptYour answer
SSpecific What exactly changes? Write it so a stranger could check it. "Run a 10k race in under 65 minutes" clears the bar. "Get fitter" doesn't.
MMeasurable Which number moves, and from what to what? Pick the checkpoint you can count: sessions done, pages written, dollars saved.
AAchievable What makes this realistic with the time, money, and energy you actually have? Name what gets cut to make room for it.
RRelevant Why this goal, and why now? One sentence on what it feeds into. If the answer is "it sounds good", it won't survive a busy month.
TTime-bound The deadline, plus the date of the first working session. A goal with a deadline and no first session is a plan to start someday.

Run the weakest of your three goals through all five rows first. If it passes, the other two probably will too.

Set the three review dates now

Thirty, sixty, and ninety days out from today. Put all three in your calendar the same day you print this page, while the goal is still interesting. Each review takes ten minutes: reread the goal, look at what happened since the last review, write one sentence. Tick the circle when the review actually happened.

Review 1Review 2Review 3
Day 30 Day 60 Day 90

Mid-point adjustment

Around day 45, fill in these three lines. Goals get revised when they run into real weeks, and a goal that reaches day 90 unchanged is rare. Changing the target, the step size, or the deadline here is how a goal stays alive past the point where most get abandoned.

1. What happened since the day-30 review (sessions done, numbers, facts):

2. What got in the way (name the obstacle: time, money, energy, interest):

3. The adjustment, in writing: new target, smaller steps, or new deadline:

Four opinions on goal reviews

  1. The reminder is the review. A review date that lives in your head is a wish. Set the three calendar alerts the same day you fill in this sheet, with ten minutes blocked, not "sometime that week".
  2. Review the trend, not today. Thirty days of data beats one morning's mood. If the log says four sessions out of twelve, work with the four; the number tells you whether to shrink the goal or fix the schedule.
  3. Kill goals on purpose. Ending a goal at the day-60 review means the loop caught a bad bet two months early. Cross it out on the sheet and keep the page: the reason you quit is the raw material for the next goal.
  4. Same chair, same ten minutes. Reviews scheduled as "whenever I get around to it" drift to never. Pick a time and place you're already reliable at (Sunday coffee, Monday lunch) and attach the review to it.

Want the whole system on paper?

The 21-page New Year 2027 Reset Planner runs the full loop around this sheet: a 2026 reflection (wins, lessons, one proud moment, what to leave behind), word of the year with 12 weekly check-ins, the eight-area goal setting pages, 66-day habit trackers, five January weekly plans, a 25-row budget reset, a 20-area declutter checklist, four quarterly review pages, and a 2027 milestones page. A4 and US Letter, mint and charcoal, typographic and clean. The free new year goals template and word of the year worksheet pair with it.

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