What are your big life goals? It’s an excellent question, but it’s a bit jarring to see it asked so bluntly. I’ve seen a handful of these “100 Life Goal” lists floating around, but they’ve all been the author’s personal list of goals. Other people’s goals can be inspiring, but usually if you’re at the point of listing goals, you’ve already narrowed your ideas down a bit.
If you’re looking for some ideas for life goals, I’ve compiled 100 life goal ideas below.
Some things to note as you peruse these 100 life goal ideas:
- I’ve organized them into 9 sections based on this helpful list of life areas.
- If you know me, you’ll notice that some of these are definitely my own goals, but a lot aren’t – they’re just ideas to get some creativity flowing as you imagine what your future might hold
- All of these goals have an end state – either a final product or a period of time to practice the goal. Feel free to adjust what the end result looks like – if you want some more details on how, check out my post on goals vs. resolutions.
So without further ado, here’s 100 life goal ideas!
Spritual
- Pray/meditate 10 minutes every day for a month
- Read the entirety of a spiritual text of your choice
- Keep a spiritual journal for a year
- Spread kindness by seeking out service opportunities in your community monthly
- Start a gratitude journal and commit to writing in it every day for two weeks
- Join a spiritual gathering and attend three times per month
- Read 5 pages of spiritual books or devotionals daily for a week
- Write down your beliefs and revisit them annually
- Explore a different spiritual practice and discover what is similar and different to your own
- Try out visualization and the law of attraction
- Have a conversation with someone about your spirituality
Personal Development
- Develop a list of core values and reflect on them annually
- Learn a second language conversationally
- Get a bachelor’s degree
- Write your personal brand statement
- Do one thing that scares you
- Track your achievements weekly for a year and see what you achieve!
- Find 20 minutes per day to commit to a hobby you’ve been meaning to try
- Keep a procrastination journal for a week and examine what drives your procrastination
- Read one book per month for a year
- Start a confidence journal – record when things go really well so you can return to it for encouragement
- Reflect on your style of conflict and practice giving and accepting criticism
Health/Fitness
- Do 10 unassisted pull-ups in a row
- Learn how to tap dance
- Start a regular body acceptance routine
- Run a half marathon
- Squat your body weight
- Join a local social sports team
- Touch your toes!
- Do the splits
- Go to the gym three times per week for a year
- Drink half our weight in ounces of water daily for a month
- Measure your body fat percentage, make a goal for improvement, and hit it
Romance
- Get married
- Go on a date once per month (this counts whether you’re in a committed relationship or not – putting yourself out there is hard!)
- Attend a Gottman Institute Couples Workshop
- Go on a beach vacation with your partner
- Create a 52-card deck of reasons why you love your partner (or a good friend)
- Learn basic back and shoulder massages (and practice on a loved one!)
- Commit to being vulnerable sometime this month – this looks different for everyone, but is a worthwhile practice
- Find a list of questions to ask your partner and work through them over dinner (like this one)
- Take a dance class together
- Go on a walk after dinner together every night for a week
- Do all the weekly chores one week – even the ones you hate
Family
- Have a child
- Talk to my siblings once per month
- Call my parents twice per month
- Send postcards to your extended family when you travel
- Establish one non-holiday-related annual tradition with your family
- Prepare for your parents’ retirement and death (Morbid? Yes. Necessary? Also yes.)
- Define what your ideal work-life balance schedule looks like – and stick to it for a month
- Have a monthly date day with the whole family
- Send birthday gifts to your godson
- Adopt a dog from a shelter
- Collect your grandparents’ life stories
Business/Career
- Get a promotion/raise
- Attend training for your career
- Start a blog about something you’re passionate about
- Establish a consulting business in your field
- Get an MBA
- Join an in-person networking group and introduce yourself to three new people
- Find a mentor and meet with them quarterly
- Volunteer for a charity that you really care about
- Pick a performance metric and work for a month to improve it
- Shadow a totally different (but interesting!) profession for a day
- Create a professional website to show off your hard work
Finances
- Record every purchase for a year
- Retire at 50
- Have a net worth of $1M
- Pay off student debt
- Buy a car in cash
- Own a home with a garage
- Try a no-spend week
- Go to the cheaper grocery store once per week
- Establish an emergency fund with 3-6 months’ worth of expenses
- Open a personal retirement account and set up automatic contributions
- Learn about investing and develop a personal investment strategy
Fun/Recreation
- Play every Legend of Zelda game
- Learn accordion
- Get a scuba certification
- Pick a local tourist location you’ve never visited and visit it
- Host a murder mystery night
- Build patio furniture
- Learn how to draw
- Watch every Marvel movie in order (and if you want to watch every SCENE in order, someone figured out the right order!)
- See the Northern Lights
- Write a novel
- Compete in a chess tournament
- Take an improv class
Social
- Pick 10 people and send them birthday cards this year
- Once per week, call someone instead of texting to catch up
- Reach out to that person you’ve been meaning to reach out to
- Host a monthly brunch club
- Put together a regular pub quiz group
- Become pen pals with one of your friends
- Check in with 3 friends about their career goals and see if you can help them
- Babysit a friend’s kids for a night so they can go out for dinner
- Treat your sister to a pedicure
- Join a DnD group
- Attend a meetup and meet a new friend once per quarter
Congratulations if you made it this far – what do you think? I hope this list of 100 life goal ideas serves as inspiration as you build your life goals!
