100 Weekly Goal Ideas to Focus Your Life (+Free Goal Trackers)

85+ Weekly Goals: Ideas & Examples

With a weekly focus idea in mind, you can work your way to setting goals for the week. Later, I’ll give some tips for how to set weekly goals.

For now, check out this master list of weekly goal ideas and weekly goal examples for:

• Work
• Health & Wellness
• Mindfulness & Growth
• Relationships
• Spiritual
• Fun Goals to Set
• General Goal Ideas for Life

15 Weekly Goal Ideas for Work

• Weekly Goals for Your Working Style
  1. Meet all your deadlines for the week (maybe even ahead of time).
  2. Use your time wisely and commit to not working late all week! Close the laptop at 5.
  3. Use phone calls instead of emails and instant messages.
  4. Create a relaxing good morning routine for success to start your days off right.
  5. Attend all meetings on time or early.
  6. Be intentional about getting to know your coworkers better, either during or after work.
  7. Check your email only 5 times a day.
• Weekly Goals for Growth
  1. Find a mentor (here’s how) or volunteer to be a mentor.
  2. Find a new training class that interests you and sign up.
  3. Research conferences to attend in your field or expertise.
  4. Catch up on your LinkedIn connections and connect with your coworkers on the platform.
• Other Personal Goals for Work
  1. Volunteer for a giveback opportunity or community outreach opportunity.
  2. Attend a networking event and exchange contact information with someone new. These 14 networking tips will help you in building your network.
  3. Meet a new coworker and ask them about their work experiences. Have coffee with them.
  4. Fight the imposter syndrome! Speak up in meetings, work confidently, know that you are qualified, able, and a meaningful part of whatever organization you work in.

18 Weekly Goal Ideas for Health & Wellness

• Setting Weekly Goals for Healthy Habits
  1. Drink more water.
  2. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
  3. Order take out / go out to eat less.
  4. Try a number of new recipes.
  5. Recipe swap with friends and try a new one.
  6. Cook a new recipe with a friend.
• Exercise-Related Weekly Goals
  1. Exercise more often. (Exercise more days than I don’t exercise.)
  2. Exercise right after work / Exercise before work.
  3. Find a type of exercise that I enjoy doing and do that exercise twice this week.
  4. Sign up for a gym and go at least three times this week.
  5. Try out different gyms in my area.
  6. Exercise with a friend. (We love having company!)
• General Wellness Weekly Goal Ideas
  1. Get more sleep! Sleep 7-9 hours every night.
  2. Get up earlier (so you can drink your tea / coffee in peace).
  3. Don’t use electronics 1 hour before going to bed.
  4. Set aside at least fifteen minutes of every day to take time for yourself.
  5. Give up streaming services and TV for a week.
  6. Take a Break from Social Media (7 tips on how)

18 Weekly Goal Ideas for Mindfulness & Growth

• Reading Related Weekly Goals
  1. Clean out your bookshelf and give away books to a donation center or have a book swap with a group of friends.
  2. Go to the library and browse the different sections. Pick 3 different types of books to read this month.
  3. Read news articles from different magazines and newspapers to educate yourself on a topic.
  4. Discuss the topic with a friend and see what you can learn from them.
• Weekly Goals for Developing New or Old Skills
  1. Find a class for a skill you’re interested in developing.
  2. Practice a new or old skill every day. (Like playing an instrument).
  3. Research skills that may be helpful for you in your career or future career.
  4. Start a Writing Habit and carve out time everyday to work on a writing project.
• Weekly Goals for Foreign Language Learning
  1. Find a language partner.
  2. Sign up for a language class.
  3. Practice your second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) language for 30 mins every day.
  4. Read 6 news articles in a foreign language.
• Social Media Related Weekly Goals
  1. Take a break from social media.
  2. Only check social media networks once a day each.
  3. Only post once a day on each platform.
  4. Don’t post or check social media all week.
  5. Find encouraging and uplifting people to follow on social media.
  6. Post kind words and uplifting images to encourage others on social media.

7 Weekly Goal Ideas for Relationships

For weekly focus ideas that relates to relationships, here are some good weekly goal ideas that involve spending time with others.

• Weekly Goal Ideas for Relationships
  1. Host a movie night and watch old movies with your friends and family.
  2. Catch up with an old friend over the phone or a video call.
  3. Write a letter to someone who would be least expecting it but would appreciate it the most.
  4. Make an effort to meet someone new at church; welcome a visitor and introduce them to your other friends at church.
  5. Go out to eat with a friend or family member you rarely have a chance to see.
  6. Gather friends together to do an activity you’ve been wanting to do for a while, like hiking or going to a museum.
  7. Call your parents. No matter how far (or close) you are to them, they always appreciate it!

10 Weekly Goal Ideas for the Christian Life

Is building your relationship with Jesus your focus of the week? Here are some good weekly goal ideas to help you achieve that. 

• Weekly Goal Ideas for the Christian Life
  1. Spend time reading the Bible every day.
  2. Read through a whole book or passage of Scripture. Doing the 31 Proverbs in a months is always a good place to start.
  3. Start the morning with a prayer of praise and gratitude.
  4. Memorize a favorite Bible verse; recite it every day.
  5. Journal your prayers this week and write about how you’ve seen God working in your life.
  6. Encourage and pray for a fellow Christian friend.
  7. Volunteer at church or investigate a way to get more involved with the Christian community nearby.
  8. Join a small group, Bible study, outreach ministry, or prayer group.
  9. Be thankful! Find something different to thank the Lord for every day and write it down in a gratitude journal.
  10. Find a creative way to show God’s love to others.

8 Weekly Goal Ideas: Fun Goals to Set

Outside of the more serious weekly goals, here are some good weekly goals that involve fun, adventure, or just enjoying life.

1. Support a local business by trying a new restaurant.
2. Get up thirty minutes earlier every morning and do something fun to start off your day.
3. Reorganize and color code your closet.
4. Read a book 📚 and/or finish a chapter every day of the week.
5. Send some unexpected gifts to your friends and family and / or tell them how much they mean to you.
6. Do fifteen minutes of calm breathing / yoga every morning or before you go to bed.
7. Find all of the touristy places in your hometown and make a plan to visit them. Drag a friend along!
8. Cross off something on your bucket list. Need ideas? Here’s a daring 30 before 30 challenge and bucket list.

13 General Weekly Goal Ideas for Life

Included in this last list of goals topics are some general weekly goal ideas:

• Adulting Weekly Goal Ideas
  1. Set up all of your routine doctor appointments for the month or year.
  2. Organize your papers and files (print and on your computer).
  3. Make an apartment hunting checklist and start looking. (Deciding if it’s time to move out of your parents house?)
• Setting a Weekly Goal for Cleaning
  1. Load the dishes every night before bed. No dirty dishes in the sink overnight!
  2. Pick a room that needs a deep clean and dedicate a few hours to getting the task done.
  3. Clean out your closet and donate your clothes and accessories to a second hand store or charity.
  4. Vacuum the house. Dust the furniture. Mop the floors. (You get the gist.)
  5. Do an assessment of what
  6. Review what’s in stock in your fridge, pantry, and freezer. Clean them out and then plan new meals with the ingredients you have.
• Weekly Goals for Finances
  1. Get your pay stub and make a budget.
  2. Track your expenses.
  3. Don’t do any online shopping for the week. (Yes, even Amazon.)
  4. Implement some of these finance tips for young professionals to better manage your money.

Examples of Daily Goal Ideas

If you prefer to track goals on a daily basis, you can break the weekly goals down into even smaller goals. 

• For example, if your goal is to write a chapter of your book, then break that into smaller more manageable pieces. Let’s say a chapter is 14 pages, then for that week, you can commit to writing two pages a day.

• If your goal is to spend less time watching streaming services, come up with another activity that you can do besides watching TV every night of the week. Each of those activities can be a daily goal for you.

How to Set Weekly Goals

Before making a plan to accomplish your weekly goals, employ these 4 simple strategies for how to set weekly goals.

1. Use the SMART Goal framework as a reference and guide.
2. Set Realistic Goals. The smaller the goal, the better!
3. Set Goals tailored to YOU (and only YOU).
4. Write down your weekly goals and track them.

1. What are SMART Goals?

Each letter of SMART in SMART goals stands for a certain attribute of the goal. SMART goals are: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Bound.

Here’s how to apply the SMART framework to your weekly goals.

• Specific: Avoid goals that are general, vague, or lofty and instead create goals that are concrete and clear.
• Measurable: How do you know that you’ve achieved a goal? By measuring your progress or the results. 
•  Attainable: Your personal goals should always be realistic considering the other factors at play in your life. I’ll expound on this idea in the next section.
• Relevant: It’s no good to have a goal that doesn’t relate to what you are trying to accomplish overall. If you struggle with his, having a weekly focus idea in mind helps with setting weekly goals that are more relevant.
• Time-Bound: Giving yourself a deadline motivates you to work toward your goal and be proactive about your progress. Of course, for weekly goals, the timeline is 7 days.

2. What is a realistic goal?

My second tip for how to set weekly goals is to create realistic goals. High, lofty, unattainable goals can make us feel like a failure when really the goal wasn’t realistic.

Good weekly goals shouldn’t be something you achieve by sacrificing in all other areas of your life, like health, work, relationships, general well-being, and sleep.

3. Why does setting weekly goals mean small goals?

To avoid setting unrealistic goals and feeling like a failure at the end of the week, I encourage you to set smaller goals.

For example, when I started my blog, I had zero traffic. Without the proper tools and knowledge of blogging and SEO, my goal of getting more traffic to my site was unachievable.

So, I adapted and created a more realistic and smaller goal. I asked myself, what is one thing I can do this week to help me achieve the goal of getting more traffic to my blog?

The answer: take one self-paced free course on Christian blogging. It was a small goal, a better goal, and one that I could accomplish in a week.

Ask Yourself: “What is one thing I can do this week to help me achieve my goal?“

4. How do you write down your goals?

After using the SMART goals framework and choosing realistic weekly objectives, the next step to setting weekly goals is to write them down.

You can write down your goals by using a planner or organizer, a weekly goals template, daily goals tracker, bullet journal, planning pad, or calendar. ErinCondren has a dedicated planner for setting daily intentions and goals. Here are other planners to help you write down your goals and stay organized.

• Top Planner Picks for Work and Home:
  • The Day Designer Flagship Daily Planner has beautiful cover designs and combines clean layouts and effective prompts to help you plan and schedule.
  • The Ultimate LifePlanner from ErinCondren: This is the ultimate planner from ErinCondren! A straightforward planner design with tabbed calendars and space for yearly, monthly, and weekly planning.
  • Bloom Daily Planners – Weekly and Monthly Planner and Organizer with Tabs: This planner helps with goal setting and organization by giving you dedicated pages for setting your goals, creating a vision board, and other life coaching feature pages. The tabs are a nice bonus, too!

Using a planner to set and track your goals is convenient because you’ll have your personal weekly goals for the year all in one place. Whatever you choose, make sure it’s in a place that you’ll remember to check throughout the week.

Weekly Goals Template & Daily Goals Tracker (Free Printables)

Download the weekly goals template pdf and daily goals tracker here. (No opt-in required.)

Weekly Goal Templates often include pages to help you brainstorm your goals and a place for you to put your weekly focus. Some will even have space for you to break down your goal into smaller goals and tasks so you can track weekly goals more closely.

Similar to the weekly goals template, a daily goals tracker helps you get into the tiny details of your weekly goals. These are especially helpful if you have a weekly goal that requires you to reach a certain objective or achievement every day.