Ready for 2015? I’m in the middle of my planning. I’ve asked my blogging friends to help me put together a list of resources to help others set goals, plan for the new year, and get organized.
One of my favorite motivational speakers Zig Ziglar says, “If you aim at nothing, you’re sure to hit every time.” Yep, I am a goal setter. Even if I do not reach my goals, I reset them and adjust as needed so I’m at least headed in the right direction.
With this list of FREE and frugal goal setting tools I hope to share with you some of the best resources available online. I am using many of these resources myself and I recognize that quite possibly someone else may benefit from my research. So with this post, I bring you…
Over 30 FREE and Frugal Goal Setting Tools and Planners for the New Year
There are many ways to set goals and plan for the new year. Goal planning is a multifaceted task with many different areas to consider. I’m not even going to try to tackle all of these areas at once, but I wanted to write a post with some truly helpful resources and information, so I’ve included everything I could think of here. There are loads of great (including free) resources on this list. This post includes affiliate links for your convenience. By shopping my links you help me stay online and support my family. Thank you for your support!
This post includes over 25 FREE and Frugal Goal Setting Tools and Planners for 2015 in these key categories:
- Setting Goals
- Planning and Getting Organized
- Getting Focused
- Exercise Log and Food Journal
- Creating a Budget
- Resources to get your home clean and organized
- Resources to help you plan your homeschool with links to tools for teaching
- Planners to help you organize your blog
- Bible Study Resources
- Daily Prayer Resources
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Personal Planners
Resource #1: Your Retreat: A Guide to Giving Yourself a Personal Planning Day. Do you ever get a few weeks into a new year and think you’ve already blown it?
The Humbled Homemaker has a 64-page guidebook on sale for $3.99. In this Personal Planning Day guide you will find: encouragement and motivation on how to create your own personal planning retreat. examples of the tools needed to plan. 35 printables to guide you through your own retreat! I’d love to plan a retreat. I’ll be contacting some of my close mom friends soon to see if we can set this up. It sounds like a rewarding way to pull everything together for the new year.
Resource #2: The second resource is a book created by my blogging friend Kayse Pratt titled “Getting it Together“. It’s a planning notebook with over 30 printables for oragnizing and planning every aspect of your life and home.
Her book will walk you through how to create your very own Home Management Notebook. Kayse has inspired me to get more organized. I used Kayse’s system for Getting it Together last year and found it extremely helpful. She thought of things I never would have thought of.
Getting it Together includes 30 Printables to help you get organized. They include:
- Perpetual Calendars for Birthdays and Anniversarys
- Meal Planning
- Restaurants and Take Out
- Emergency Information
- Frequently Referenced Phone Numbers
- Address Book
- Account Trackers
- Family Budget
- Spending Tracker
- Financial Goals
- Cleaning Schedule
- Master Project List
- Freezer Inventory
- Book Inventory
- Auto Maintenance Log
- Online Password Tracker
- Inspiration Tracker
- Family Records
- Exercise Log and Food Journal
- Babysitter Information
- Daily Routine/Schedule
I was so excited about getting organized with her book that I created an organization board in my kitchen using an 18 x 22 Inch Cork Board
I love how Kayse puts it,
“No, being organized won’t accomplish world peace. It won’t make you love cleaning, and it won’t counteract the tornado-toddler issue. But it will most definitely bring a little more peace to your home.”
Resource #3: Printable Planners from A Diligent Heart. Another option for all purpose planners can be found on Marlene Griffith’s blog A Diligent Heart. Her planners come on a variety of shapes and sizes and range from $4.00 to $13.00 each.
Resource #4: FREE Printable Planner from The Budget Mama. If you like FREE you’ll love this 2015 Planner from Jessi who blogs at The Budget Mama. With monthly and weekly planning charts, you’ll have some nicely organizined tracking sheets for your goals.
Get Focused
Resource #5: Get Focused. Mary Jo Tate is offering a Free Guide with 7 Planning Tools for Busy Moms It Includes: From Frazzled to Focused: Planning Tools for Busy Moms e-book to help you establish your long-term vision and plan your year, month, week, and day. It also includes: Big Dream Brainstorming Guide to help you establish a long-term vision, Strategic Guide to Annual Review and Goal Planning, Annual Review form to help you assess the previous year, Annual Goal Planner form to chart a course for the year ahead, and a Weekly Planner for balancing personal life, family, and business.
Personal Finance and Budgeting
Resource #6: Budgeting Planner. Godly Glimpses is offering a Detailed Budgeting Planner for families who want to get their budgeting organized. It’s only $3.99 and includes everything you need to start off on the right foot with setting a budget. This colorful, easy to use, planner with 40 pages to help you get organized. It is undated, which means you will never have to purchase another planner. You can use it from year to year.
Some of the pages you will find in this planner include:
- Full color cover sheet and divider pages for each section (with an optional cover page)
- Spine labels for a 3 ring binder
- Bill Payment Checklist and Schedule
- Printable monthly calendar pages (you can use this however you wish, but I like to use them to write in when each bill is due each month or for birthday reminders, etc)
- Monthly Pages that will hold your bills for each month (just slide in a page protector and insert your bills in the month they are due)
- Gifts to buy
- Giving Plan
- Important Documents (tax information and important receipts)
Resource #7: Budget Binder: The Busy Moms Budget Binder is being offered at Frugal Homeschool Family. It includes FREE printable pages to help you plan your finances for the entire year. You’ll need to subscribe to Heather’s blog for the FREE download.
The Budget Binder Pages include:
- Month at a glance pages
- Yearly financial goals planning
- Bills to pay with monthly checklist
- Checking account ledger
- Savings account ledger
- Giving tracker
- Username/password log
- Account contact info
- Monthly budget tracker
- Christmas budget planning
- Gift budget planning
- and MORE!
Get your Home Clean and Organized
Resource #8: Cleaning and Organizing: In 28 Days to Hope for Your Home from friend Dana White from A Slob Comes Clean is funny, helpful, and exactly what I need to help me get my house in order. Dana knows what she’s talking about when it comes to getting your home clean and organized. You will not be dissapointed with this book.
Dana writes: “Are you overwhelmed by the mess in your home?
28 Days to Hope for Your Home is not a guide to getting your home completely organized in a month. Based on the experience I have gained during my personal deslobification process, this e-book is a guide to developing basic habits that other people seem to know (but people like us don’t).
It includes:
- Twenty-eight days of specific instructions to help you develop four basic (but essential) home management habits.
- Insights into why these concepts seem foreign to you.
- Practical tips to keep you from giving up.
- Bonus sections with realistic strategies for laundry management, meal prep, and decluttering.
- More than 45 pages of all new, exclusive content!
Resource #9: Cut the Clutter. Whether at home or in the classroom, Dana can help you de-clutter your life. In her e-book Drowning in Clutter? (Tried and True Decluttering Strategies) Dana shares her personal experience and wisdom for decluttering a busy life and home. In her own words, “Drowning in Clutter? Don’t Grab a Floatie . . .Drain the Ocean!” As the mom of a two year-old and four year-old this book is at the top of my must read list for this year.
Resource #10: FREE Printable Cleaning Schedule Planner from Laura Sue Shaw. This FREE Prinatble Planner for your Cleaning Schedule is a quick and easy download from Laura Sue Shaw’s website.
Resource # 11: Clean Home Every Day. Love a clean home but need a little help getting started? You’ll love this FREE planner from Simply Kierste on creating a Clean Home Every Day.
Resource #12: Free Cleaning Checklist. This FREE Cleaning Checklist you can customize to include an entire year on one page from Simply Rebekah is perfect for the mom who likes a simple visual guide and schedule.
Resource #13: Kitchen Cleaning Checklist for Kids. Early Bird Mom offers a free Kitchen Cleaning Checklists for Kids – a wonderful way to teach kids practical life skills and get a little help around the kitchen.
Resource #14: Get Kids to Clean their Rooms: This FREE printable for Getting Kids to Clean their Rooms is also from Early Bird Mom and it highlights key things to help your kids know if they have cleaned correctly. Thanks Sarah.
Resource #15: FREE Printable Chore Charts and Daily Routine Charts. I found some awesome clip art online and purchased it to create this FREE 7 Page Printable Pack that includes Printable Chore Charts and Daily Routine Charts. Perfect for teaching kids about a regular daily routine and teaching them about chores. Visit the post at HappyandBlessedHome.com to download your FREE copy.
Resource #16: FREE Morning Routine Chart. This FREE Morning Routine Planner from Laura Sue Shaw can help you come up with a daily morning routine – and it’s FREE.
Homeschool Planning
Resource #17: FREE Homeschool Planner. I found a wonderful FREE Homeschooling Planner at Living Well Spending Less. If you need help planning your homeschooling activities, you should check out this FREE resource at: Homeschool Planner. Ruth’s planner is not some super-academic homeschool planner, but it is totally doable and very practical for a mom with little ones in tow.
Resource #18: FREE Preschool Curriculum. Our preschool plan here at Happy and Blessed Home is based on our Learn to Read Series through the alphabet . When you subscribe to HappyandBlessedHome.com you gain access to over 1,300 pages of FREE printables with over 800 activities to help young children learn to read and write the alphabet.
Resource #19: FREE Montessori Planning Charts. If you’d like an easy-to-follow plan for your preschooler, check out my FREE Montessori Planners for daily activity. I explain an easy way to get organized by using the Monetssori method at home. Montessori is perfect for teaching preschoolers and helps teachers to never run out of ideas.
Resource #20 FREE Preschool Circle Time Morning Board Printables. I’m extending this freebie indefintely. Make sure you subscribe to HappyandBlesedHome.com to access your free copy.
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Resource #21: FREE Student Planner. Blessed Little Learners is offering a FREE Student Planner for 2015 if you sign up to become a susbcriber to her blog. The student planner includes 2015 Calendar, Birthday List, Reading Logs, Score List, Score List, Time Table, Monthly at a a glance agenda, daily assignment and to do list, contact list, and notes.
Resource #22: How to Plan a New Homeschool Year. With an honest account of how she plans her homeschool year, Linda shares 10 Things I Do When Planning a New School Year. There aren’t any free printables with her post, but I love how she pulls it all together and shares her planning tips.
Resource #23: Flourish: Balance for Homeschool Moms. This book is written by Mary Jo Tate and published by Apologia Educational Ministries.
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Flourish: Balance for Homeschool Moms By Mary Jo Tate / Apologia Educational Ministries Do more than just survive the homeschool journey-thrive! Flourish provides practical, real-life principles on homeschooling, home management, time management, child training, and more. With chapters especially devoted to single mothers and starting a home business, this book will help homeschoolers walking any path of life. Learn how to evaluate your time, set and follow appropriate goals, stop operating in “crisis mode,” deal with interruptions, stop neglecting your spiritual and physical health, and flourish with focus and intention. 288 pages, softcover. |
Blog Planners
Resource #24: 100 Page Blog Planner. So far, the best blog planner I’ve found was created by Sarah Avila at My Joy Filled Life. There are 100 wonderful planning pages for bloggers. I’m not sure how many of my readers are bloggers, but if you’re looking for something to get organized in 2015, I recommend Sarah’s Blog Planner. It’s $4.99 but worth every penny if you’re like me and time is scarce.
If you are a blogger and don’t already have a planner in place, you will greatly benefit from Sarah’s planner. It includes all the things you need to do to promote your blog via social media, as well as charts to help track and plan for reviews and giveaways. It is what I am using in the new year to stay focused on my goals and keep my blog humming. And that means great and wonderful things for you my beloved readers!
Resource #25: FREE Blog Planner. Lorelai who blogs at Life with Lorelai has published some FREE printables to create a Universal Blog Planner that you can access for FREE.
Resource #26: Blog Like a Pro Planner. Katie who blogs at Paradise Praises has created a Blog like a Pro Planner. Whether you are a blogger going pro or a professional online entrepreneur, the Blog Like a Pro Planner can streamline, simplify and liberate your career.
Whether it’s planning short term & long term goals, tracking the income your affiliates are bringing in, or recording the details of next year’s speaking engagements, you’ll find that the Blog Like a Pro Planner is for you. Get the Blog Like a Pro Master Planner and get organized for good.
Here is what the planner includes:
Over 80+ downloadable forms covering the following areas of responsibility:
Goal Planning Forms
Products & Marketing forms for planning, development and launches
Calendars
Task Management Forms with to do lists and check sheets
Maintenance & Statistics Forms and spreadsheets
Financial Tracking Forms and spreadsheets
Affiliates & Sponsors Forms
Writing Forms
Networking Forms
Team Management Forms
Speaking Forms
Travel Forms
Spirtual Goals
Resource #27: Good Morning Girls. If you do not have the option of a real-life connection with like-minded moms, there are some wonderful resources online. Good Morning Girls offers online bible studies complete with facilitators leading the groups and online study guides and forums. Taking time to get into God’s word is a wonderful goal to have for the New Year. They are accepting registration for their winter study now so make sure to sign up if you’d like some encouragement and an online group study.
Prayer Guides
Resource #28: Scripture Memorization. Another great free printable resource being offered by my friend Roasann are these 24 Bible Verses to Memorize and study in 2015. She writes:
I don’t know about you, but I often have mornings where I know I should read something in my Bible, but I don’t have a plan and I can’t really decide what to read or where to dig in. What ends up happening is a very unfocused quiet time.
That’s why I’ve created this resource.
Now I can refer to my Bible verse for that week and dig a little deeper. The verse is already determined so I’m not losing time flipping through pages to find which one I want to study.
Click the image to download your free copy from her website. You can also sign up to follow along.
Daily Prayer Goals
Resource #29: Marriage Prayer Cards. If you’re looking for a wonderful blog with some great tips and marriage advice, I highly recommend Darlene Schacht’s blog Time Warp Wife. One of my favorite posts from her blog includes FREE prayer cards that you can use to pray for your spouse.
Resource 30: Prayer Cards for Children. It’s a great way to start the new year – praying for your marriage. Darlene also has some Prayer Cards for Kids. A great way to introduce a guided prayer activity this year.
Resource #31: Prayer Cards for Moms. Facebook Likers of HappyandBlessedHome.com get a copy of my free prayer cards for moms. Click the Just for Likers Box on my Facebook Homepage to get the link to download your free copy. Or visit this post Free Mother’s Day Gift for more information.
2015 Goal Setting
Ready to sit down and set some goals? I think it feels good to get a handle on things and be more organized. As the Chief Executive Household Manager 
of our home, these resources have proven to be extremely valuable for my planning and goal setting activities for the New Year. My hope is that these resources will be helpful to you as well.
I’ve got lots of wonderful things planned for my readers in 2015!
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