Year in Review: Look Back, Then Plan Next Year with a Workbook
The end of the year is a natural time to look back before you plan ahead. This guide shows how to use a printable year-in-review workbook, from remembering the year you had to choosing a handful of goals and a simple plan. It is a personal reflection tool and makes no promises about results.
Start by looking back
The Year in Review and New Year Goals Workbook begins with the look-back pages: a year in numbers, highlights, challenges and lessons, and a month by month page. Work through these first. A quiet evening with a pen is enough, and you do not need to fill every line.
Rate your life areas
Next comes a life areas rating page and a keep, stop, start page. Rate each area the way it feels today, then write what you want to keep doing, what you want to stop and what you want to start. This turns the look-back into a short list of changes.
Choose a few goals
The workbook has a next-year vision page and 5 goal worksheets. You do not have to use all five. Pick the ones that matter most to you, and print extra goal sheets only if you need them.
Build a simple plan
A 12-month roadmap helps you place each goal across the year, and a habits page lets you list the habits you would like to build. The workbook ends with a note to your future self, which you can open at the end of next year.
Try three pages for free
To see how it feels before you buy, the free Year in Review sample pages include a my year in numbers page, a life areas rating page and one goal worksheet. They come in Letter and A4 and you can print as many copies as you like. More free samples are on our Free Printable Samples page.
What is in the full workbook
- Look back: year in numbers, highlights, challenges and lessons, month by month
- Life areas rating and keep, stop, start
- Next year vision and 5 goal worksheets
- 12-month roadmap, habits to build and a note to your future self
It comes as two PDFs, US Letter and A4, with 16 pages plus a cover. The pages are single sided. Five color sets are included in the download: Classic Green, Ocean Blue, Charcoal Gray, Sunset Orange and Plum Purple.
How it is meant to be used
- Download and print.
- Work through the look-back pages first.
- Then choose a few goals and fill in the roadmap.
How the download works
This is a digital download. Nothing is shipped. Your download link appears on the order confirmation page and in your order email. The files are for personal use: print and use them for yourself and your household, and please do not resell, share or redistribute them. Because this is a digital product we cannot accept returns, but if a file will not open or something is wrong, contact us and we will make it right.
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See also: Year in Review and New Year Goals Workbook, FREE Year in Review Sample Pages Printable, How to Use a 2027 Printable Planner.
See also: How to Choose Three New Year Goals You Can Actually Keep and Habit Tracker and Goal Planner: How to Start with Three Pages.
