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Resources for Setting and Achieving Healthy Goals

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The new year always brings about a lot of reflection time and desire to set some goals for the coming year, at least for me. I've learned that there are healthy ways to make goals and go about achieving them…and some unhealthy ways. All-or-nothing th...
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How to Identify and Set a Healthy Goal

Not all goals are created equally. Here are some resources to set healthy goals for yourself.

 
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This is a great article on making SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-Based.)
Setting SMART goals for success
 
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This article has some great, tangible tips to help you make healthy goals and stick to them.
25 Tips for Setting (and Achieving) Healthy Goals
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This is a good list for goal ideas, but the important part is to decide what's important to YOU, why it's important, and to make sure it fits within the framework of a “SMART” goal.
20 Daily Goals For Self-Improvement In 2025
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Resources to Help Stay on Track

Everyone operates differently, and what works for one person may not work for another. For example, I love to mark a physical tracker sheet to show that I've met my goal for the day. I have to keep that sheet somewhere highly visible as a constant re...

 
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This fitness tracker could be used for any “500 count” goal you want to set for yourself in 2025. I love how visual and simple it is with the daily color box that you can see grow each day.
500 Mile Challenge Fitness Tracker | Goal Tracker | Exercise Tracker | Printable Workout Tracker | Walking Habit Tracker
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This SMART goals worksheet bundle helps you to dig down to your “why” and make sure your goals are meeting the “SMART” framework.
Goal Setting Planner Template | SMART Goal Tracker Worksheets for Therapist & Counselor | Therapy Worksheets | Counselling Resources
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If you're anything like me, getting started is the hardest part. Having a visual timer to set a small, achievable time-based goal is often all it takes to get me going, though. This is the visual timer that I have, and it's so cute. It comes in a bun...
TIME TIMER Home MOD - 60 Min Kids Visual
 
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These are really neat evidence-based guided therapy notebooks to help you set and grow healthy habits and goals. There are also notebooks to help you manage other mental health challenges like anxiety, depression, and insomnia.
Therapy Notebooks | Habit-Building Notebook
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If reading a certain number of books or a certain amount of time per day is a goal, this reading tracker bookmark is such a cute resource.
Reading Habit Tracker Bookmark Shelf with Tassel
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In order to meet a goal, what you're really committing to is forming a habit. This book by NYT writer Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit, is one of the most interesting, science-backed looks into habit formation that I've ever read.
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business a book by Charles Duhigg
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I'm a huge fan of my Touchpoints. They're wearable vibrating devices that utilitze bilateral stimulation to help me focus and stay calm. Always helpful when I'm working on achieving a goal or setting a new habit.
Wearable Stress Relief Device | TouchPoints
 
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This specially lined journal is designed to help you keep track of goals.
Rhodia Goalbook - Softcover Raspberry

Maintaining a Healthy Mindset

One of my biggest challenges while tackling any goal is keeping my own unhealthy attitudes in check. Here are some encouraging resources to help keep me focused on a healthy growth mindset to achieving goals.

 
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This recovery slogan, “Progress, Not Perfection” is a daily reminder to me that I don't have to try to be perfect. I just need to focus on growth and forward movement.
Progress Not Perfection - Simple Self-Care, Mental Health, Growth Mindset Quote, Recovery Slogan Wall Art Printable (INSTANT DOWNLOAD)
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These pocket recovery slogan quote cards have a TON of growth mindset tools to keep me centered and focused on progress  rather than perfection. (I should know. I designed them. :) )
Rainbow Printable Recovery Pocket Cards - AlAnon, CoDA, and other 12-Step Program Slogans, Acronyms, & Quotes Reminder Card Set (DOWNLOAD)
 
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This is a great journal to help you keep a fierce mindset. :)
Punch Today In The Face Journal