As 2023 clock is ticking and time is going away, it’s time for new beginning, a complete new start. As you are entering in a new year, 2024 — you have to motivate yourself to use this new sense of mindset. You can make new goals for a new year to become better version of yourself.

Goals setting is the first step to decide the outcomes you are looking for this year. This the plan and action guide for you. Even you don’t know how to choose goals, there is a list of goals for 2024 from which you can choose your goals you want to choose.

Why need to set goals for 2024 ?

Everyone is planning to celebrate the 2023 year ending with blast and have amazing plans to say bye bye to this year. But as soon as it’s over, there will be a slump as your energy will fade away. To keep your energy for new day of new year, you need to do something.

You have to decide before hand so that you won’t struggle once you are standing and thinking about what goals i want to start this year. This is a new phase of your life in which you can learn a new skill or can refresh an old skill long forgotten. You can do whatever you want with this new start.

Let’s reflect on the memories of 2023, and remember both mistakes and achievements you made. Let’s learn from it before going forward and do your best this year !

• Why need to set goals for 2024 ?
• Here are 20 achievable and powerful goals you can set in 2024 !
• Creative Goals
• 1. Learn a new skill
• 2. Read Book
• 3. Write a Journal
• 4. Reflect on Each day
• 5. Change your Habits
• Self Care Goals
• 6. Listen or Read Motivational Videos, Podcasts
• 7. Staying Consistent
• 8. Declutter your Place
• 9. Strengthen Interpersonal Relationship
• 10. Practice Mindfulness/ Meditation
• 11. Spend less time on social media
• 12. Prioritize your Happiness
• 13. Make balance in Life
• Wellness Goals
• 14. Change your diet
• 15. Create a regular exercise routine
• 16. Stress-management
• Financial Goals
• 17. Reduce Monthly Spending
• 18. Invest in your retirement fund
• 19. No to impulse buy
• 20. Pay off some debt

Here are 20 achievable and powerful goals you can set in 2024 !

There are multiple areas where you want to improve your self like to break old habits, to be more creative, more self care, more financial goals and a new routine. So, what are you looking for

Creative Goals

1. Learn a new skill

This year, add a new skill to experience in your goals. It can be anything from specific dance to typing to a professional course. Anything you want to set your heart on. The 2024 gives you an opportunity to make this true as it’s a new start.

With the internet available in this era, there are so many advantages to learn a new skill completely from any place. You can take online class and can save time for other things also. This is fantastic considering many people around you learning new skills this way right now. 

2. Read Book

Even in this era of internet where every information and knowledge is available with a tap of your finger. It doesn’t make you a knowledgeable person, gain knowledge through books and feel the difference. Try to set a goal to complete book reading as per your pace of course, but do it. It will add new thoughts and your brain process more efficiently. So, choose any genre you like from history to mystery.

3. Write a Journal

There are lot of thoughts always going on with us either for work, home, relationships and more. You need to do journaling in this moment to make sense of your thoughts to get a better perspective. When you write down your feelings and read it later, it will give you an idea to deal with it in more better way. It’s a way of teaching yourself and it makes you a lot better.

4. Reflect on Each day

Having a goal to complete, you need steps to follow and sometimes baby steps. To keep going towards your goal, you need to reflect on yourself everyday to keep yourself motivated when you miss few steps or when you are procrastinate or when you stop moving towards your goals. It keeps you inspired and grounded and put a ease on your mind.

5. Change your Habits

Your everyday habits make you what you are right now. From how you are getting up in morning to your work habits to your night routine. Everything determines what type of goals you can achieve easily. If you are planning to do exercise or gym, you might need to change your habit of late night sleeping and late sleeping till morning. So, Changing few habits can help you in long run to make it possible for you to complete your goal this year.

Self Care Goals

6. Listen or Read Motivational Videos, Podcasts

First rule to follow for self care goal is to read or listen as much as you want to make yourself motivated and inspired. There are stories in books if you are an avid reader or listen to podcasts while travelling and doing other works. Any medium you choose, helps you to keep focussed and help you to understand that everyone is doing the same. Not everyone is self motivated enough to pull out the goal in one stretch. You may face your own ups and downs but it’s ok.

7. Staying Consistent

This is the word everyone wants to follow through as it is the push you need most of the time. Putting a goal in front of you don’t make you reach there. It needs steps sometimes small and sometimes big. Staying consistent is a key to everything mostly. You can reach any goal through it. So, you need to break down your goals in small steps and complete one at a time to keep yourself motivated. For this, you can use a planner to keep a tab on the amount of steps you have taken. It is like counting stairs to reach the floor you wanted. Be consistent.

8. Declutter your Place

Being organised everything you use in everyday saves your time and energy. From your workplace to your home, it gives you the perfect space for everything to do. Most of the people are organised at work place and don’t care about the home. The organised area gives you less things to handle at once and you don’t need to worry much every time you need to clean your stuff. So, start to declutter and feel better.

9. Strengthen Interpersonal Relationship

Reach out to your old friends you haven’t spoken with in a while. Spend some time with your family. The communication with real people, not virtually will make you better as they care about you. You can take time out from your busy schedule to have family dinner to romantic date to night with friends. It is important for your mental wellness. So, try to sit in a restaurant full of people or have a chat with friend rather than spending your free time in front of tv or desktop.

10. Practice Mindfulness/ Meditation

If you are new to meditation, it’s a approach to calm your mind and body while sitting in a calm space and doing breathings to focus your mind. The people who knows about it or the one who are doing it for a long time and have stopped, this is a opportunity to start it again. There are tremendous benefits with this process as per scientific research.

At one point of time, you must have heard about it. So, this is the right time to start and include this in your routine. You can take help of apps available out there and can start practice guided meditation. Once you will start doing it, you will have increase focus, better sleep, feel less stressed and will have a healthy body.

11. Spend less time on social media

Everyone talks about it but adjactely what you need to do is to limit your screen time on social media. The social media app are the ones which show you how everyone is doing around you and they are having fun and a complete perfect life. But this is not the truth, it put limiting thoughts in your mind when you start comparing like your body type to body weight to how you look to how you style to other details of your life. The pressure of social media sometimes push people to do something that they don’t want to do in the first place.

You need to limit your time on the social media to get a space to think and decide what do you want this year and what goals you want to achieve.

12. Prioritize your Happiness

You need to keep yourself first this year for every decision you will make. Try to prioritise your happiness and choose self love. There is and there will always be some problem and people in your life to make you feel bad but you have a choice to make yourself better first. This is what self love means take care of yourself first because everything starts with you. Don’t think you are selfish, think it as a consideration you are showing yourself and do what you like and fill this time with happiness. Choose happiness.

13. Make balance in Life

One of the biggest measures to keep yourself on track is to avoid burnout. Everyone usually start running with full speed towards goal and then get tired in the middle and then get tired so much that you will stop to take a break. This break sometimes become so long that it become difficult to pick back your pace. So, you need to understand that life can’t be productive 24/7, you need to loosen out also but it also shouldn’t mean losing sight of what matters to you. There is a way to stay on track while still indulging in the joys and leisure of life. You have to see where you can find the perfect “balance” of both rest, fun and progress.

Wellness Goals

14. Change your diet

Everyone have few food habits they want to get rid of or want to change in a good way. A new year gives you a chance to think and start a new habit for you. You need to keep your good food habits and need to modify and change few things.

If you are looking for physical transformation or inner health of the body, both needs a good balanced diet and this should be the one of the important goals you can achieve in 2024. So, add this one to your list !

15. Create a regular exercise routine

After diet change, this is the second step for mostly everyone. The exercise routine is something which can be mild to moderate to intense. Working out every day is honestly pretty hard to stick to. Try to make small goal first like add few exercise in your routine and keep it twice or thrice a week and once you are able to keep up with this, start adding days or more exercise in your routine.

Decide what you want to do when you work out, for example, 10 minutes running, 10 minutes of strength training and 10 minutes of stretching or whatever you want. Decide as per your body type and your body need. Use a planner or reminder for this. Writing on your planner or keeping tabs on this one is much better than keeping in mind.

16. Stress-management

Mental health is a topic everyone aware of but choose not to look for it. This year you should consider it whether you are a home person or a working person. Whenever you are stressed and feels low, you think it will be ok after few days but it doesn’t work out this way. There are right coping techniques for dealing with stress, seek out this information and learn these strategies. There are lot of information you can gather through books or internet. Prioritizing your mental health is a very important goal you should add for this year 2024!

Financial Goals

17. Reduce Monthly Spending

If you keep spending too much every month without any savings, it will soon become a bad habit and can negatively impact your overall financial condition. Try to explore the expenses you make on regular basis which can be change or modified. Try to make a budget for monthly spend and stick to it as much as possible. It may be difficult initially but it can keep you safe in the future. This is first goal to achieve in financial goals for 2024.

18. Invest in your retirement fund

Financial stability in future can be achieved through regular investments in index funds, mutual funds, term plans and retirement funds. If you are working and planning for the investment option, you need to gather as much as information and then decide to learn and educate yourself. Making yourself aware about finances is a goal you need to add in your list this year.

19. No to impulse buy

Have you wondered about the things you buy and after using once or twice, you seem to forget about it. These are the items which you buy on impulse after watching some advertisement or your friend is having this one or to impress someone but you never intended to use it later. This is wastage of money and this habit is difficult to break. So, if you are a impulsive buyer, you need to create a budget first, always think when putting your hands on it and shop. This is a habit which will add money to your savings.

20. Pay off some debt

This is for the people who have things on credits or loan either small or big ones. Even if you are paying well, always try to make some extra payments if possible which will decrease your payment and time both. This year use this goal if possible to pull off your loan early.