As the New Year approaches, we all have the opportunity to evaluate how life is going and commit to the steps necessary to make things better.
The New Year is a chance to prioritize personal development plans and create new habits that improve the overall quality of our lives.
If you think these are worthy goals, you might want to use a New Year’s resolution template to help clarify what you want to accomplish.
Things to Keep in Mind When Creating New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s resolutions often get a bad rap, largely because they just don’t seem to work. People are often full of determination when they create resolutions in January, but their enthusiasm often fizzles out by March.
However, if you do it right, your New Year’s resolutions can provide incredible opportunities to make your life better.
Here are some things to remember when making your resolutions for the coming New Year:
The following templates will help you get started creating your New Year’s resolutions and developing a system for accomplishing them. Enjoy!
1. New Year’s Resolution
Make a fresh start this new year with our very own template to help you create rock-solid New Year’s resolutions. This template features three main sections. The first section is for “Things to Do Better” and contains a blank checklist for you to write up to 13 resolutions.
The second section is titled “New Skills to Learn” and gives you another blank checklist to list the things you want to learn about during the upcoming year. [Here are over 100 suggestions of new skills to learn for the new year.]
Finally, the Notes section has more than enough space to write down vital information related to the resolutions you’ve listed in the first two sections.
2. Ready Get Set Goal
This template helps you prepare a solid New Year’s resolution that you’ll be motivated to follow through on. There are spaces where you can list down different types of resolutions, such as:
The second half of the template is dedicated to writing down items for your bucket list that you want to accomplish for the year.
This template is downloadable in A5 and US Letter sizes and comes in blue, gray, and pink versions.
3. This Year I Will… Resolution Worksheet
If you are looking for a template that allows you to focus on improving important aspects of your life, you might want to consider using this one.
This template lets you write down several key New Year’s resolutions that you’re most likely to accomplish in the coming months.
Unlike other templates that provide spaces for you to list down your resolutions, this template/worksheet has writing prompts for you to reflect on what you want to achieve in life. Some of these include:
4. The Best Year
Use this colorful template to reflect on the year that has just finished, as well as to draw up resolutions for the new year.
This template provides writing prompts that help you reflect on how well you fared during the previous year.
There are questions that encourage you to recall favorite memories of the year, as well as hard lessons you’ve learned during this period.
More importantly, this template helps you plan new resolutions that revolve around personal development, such as writing about new things you want to try and ways you can help others during the coming year.
5. New Year’s Resolution Promise List
This template features three columns that are useful when keeping track of all your New Year’s resolutions.
The first column has enough space to list up to 15 resolutions or goals.
Although entirely optional, you can write a specific deadline for each of your goals using the middle column.
Finally, you can use the last column to keep track of whether you’ve accomplished a certain New Year’s resolution or not.
6. My Personal Resolution
This template has been designed primarily as part of a class activity to help students craft their New Year’s resolutions.
The template comes with several guide questions and enough space for writing in paragraph form and one’s major New Year’s resolution or goal.
Accessing this free worksheet requires signing up for a free account at Teachers Pay Teachers.
7. New Year’s Resolutions List
Do you enjoy making lists?
If so, this example is worth considering.
This template helps you start the new year with mindfulness and intention. It allows you to explore activities you can incorporate into your life so that it will be richer and more meaningful.
The template features nine boxes containing blank bulleted lists. Each box also contains prompts that help you create a list of resolutions associated with them.
Some of these prompts include:
8. Looking Back At/Looking Ahead to Worksheet
This worksheet contains prompts that encourage appreciation for the year that just ended, as well as a deeper reflection of how you want life to be as the new year arrives.
It is easy to use. The entire page is divided into two columns. The left-hand side of the page is dedicated to reflections about the ending year. Meanwhile, the writing prompts on the right-hand side of the page are for you to look ahead to the new year more mindfully.
There is enough space after each prompt/guide question to write down your answers.
9. One Word Resolutions
If you are interested in working on your New Year’s resolutions with other people, here’s a template that you might want to try.
This set of printables features several one-word resolutions. You can print out the page and cut out the fringes so that each person can take a word that they’ve chosen to work on for the new year.
It is always interesting to see what words your friends and loved ones pick for their resolutions. This can give you an insight into what kind of people they are.
If spending more time with your loved ones is one of your top New Year’s resolutions, this activity is a great way to do it.
10. New Year Memories and Resolutions Printable
Looking for a simple template to help craft your New Year’s resolutions?
This set of templates provides a system for creating new goals for the coming year.
In addition, this one-page template has a section containing writing prompts that allow you to reminisce on the year that has just ended. It allows you to recall some of your most meaningful memories, such as:
After these reflections, you can write about your resolutions with the help of the writing prompts. For example:
11. Want, Need, Share, Succeed
Setting New Year goals can be a good family activity. It helps family members bond.
If there are children in the family, setting New Year’s resolutions together introduces them to goal setting, which is an essential life skill for success.
You can use this template to provide structure to your family’s New Year’s resolutions. There are writing prompts where you simply fill in the blanks with the answers you feel are most appropriate.
12. Yearly Resolutions with Monthly Goals
This colorful template from Moritz Fine Designs helps you determine your main goals for the new year.
It features 12 boxes for each month of the year, where you can write down the sub-goals or action plans that will support your major resolution.
13. New Year’s Goal Sheets
Here’s a set of templates to help clarify any type of goal, including New Year’s resolutions, as well as organize everything (e.g., sub-goals, action plans, timelines, etc.) you need to do in order to achieve these goals.
This four-page template has the following features:
14. New Year’s Bucket List
Why not start working on your bucket list by using some ideas from your New Year’s resolutions?
Here’s a template to help you do precisely that.
It has several suggestions for what you can do this year, based on what’s often found in bucket lists. With this template you can specify:
15. The Wheel of Wellness New Year’s Resolution Worksheet
This template is ideal if you want to create major changes in your life for the new year.
It allows you to take a closer look at your level of happiness in each area of your life. If you’re not satisfied with how things are going, you can create actionable steps to change things.
This template has helpful reminders and guide questions to explore how you feel about each area in your life. It also provides a worksheet for writing your SMART goals for overall wellness.
16. New Year’s Resolution for Kids
One of the best ways to introduce children to goal setting is by letting them join in the fun of making their own New Year’s resolutions.
This template provides five thought starters—writing prompts that help your kids plan enriching and fun activities they’d like to do for the year ahead.
The creator of this template suggests keeping the filled-in sheets and putting them in a scrapbook. This way, you and your kids can look back at the goals they’ve accomplished through the years.
You can access the free printable by scrolling down to the section “Kids’ New Year’s Resolution Printable” and clicking on the image of the template. This redirects you to a PDF version of the template that you can directly print or save in your computer for future use.
17. Categorized New Year’s Resolutions
This template is designed to help keep your New Year’s resolutions organized. It has separate sections for your small goals (short-term) and end goals (long-term) for the upcoming year.
There is also space designated for your quote of the year to keep you inspired as you work on accomplishing your resolutions.
Spaces are also provided for writing down your personal and professional resolutions. Also included in this template are a weekly planner and an undated monthly planner/calendar for the entire year to help you focus on achieving your goals.
Final Thoughts on New Year's Resolution Templates
Using a New Year’s resolution template can give you clarity about the things that you want to change in your life as a new year rolls in. It is also an opportunity for creating a system for applying these positive changes.
We hope you have found a favorite among the template examples featured today.
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