Hi there! I'm Emily, a Senior Designer at Adobe and overall goal-tracking enthusiast. I firmly believe that setting & tracking your goals in a measurable way is a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and unlock your passions!

Here's a masterlist of some of my favorite ways to set & track my goals.

Have questions for me? Feel free to reach out to me at emsermons on Instagram — I love talking productivity and goal setting 🙂

Every Day: Morning Pages

Morning Pages | Julia Cameron Live

What is it: Stream of consciousness brain-dump of everything on my mind first thing in the morning

How to do it: Sit with yourself quietly each morning and write two to three pages of handwritten, stream of consciousness thought, ideally before you dive into the hustle & bustle of the workday.

Tips: It helps not to bullshit yourself 🙂 — don't shy away from writing about the meaty stuff, the stuff you might be avoiding facing; this is your time to face anything that's on your mind in the quiet of the morning before jumping into your day.

Every Week: Bullet Journaling

Bullet Journal

What is it: "A mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system." An analog system for tracking appointments, tasks, and priorities.

How to do it: You can set up your bullet journal any way that works for you. Here's some things that work for me for my weekly 4 page spread:

The first two pages contain:

• Weekly appointments. For the purposes of my 9-5, this includes all of my meetings for the week. It's basically a copy & paste of my outlook calendar onto my notebook.
• Notes
• Weekly priorities. I like to keep these to just 3 or 4 items each week, to avoid overbooking myself. These priorities might also be quite broad, general categories; they may not even be things I can fully complete in a week, but rather topics I'd like to focus on.

The next two pages contain:

• A box for each day of the week. In each box, I subtract the number of hours I'll be in meetings that day from my typical 8-hour workday. This leaves me with the number of hours I have to allot to tasks each day.
• Each task gets a time estimated, so that I can track that against the remaining number of work hours for each day. Each task also must relate to one of my weekly priorities in order to make it on the docket for the day; if it doesn't relate to one of my top priorities for the week, it's not important enough to make it on there.