The Year Plan — A Working Sheet for Planning Your Next Move

A four-page working sheet for the year in front of you. Not a worksheet. A working sheet. The difference is you'll actually open it again.

Most career plans don't exist. People work a job, call it a job, and treat the future like it'll figure itself out. Then twenty years pass and the pitstop is the life. This is the sheet that interrupts that.

It works on any twelve-month window — calendar year, fiscal year, the year after a job change. Pick the window that matters and the sheet does the rest.

What's inside

Page one — the thinking. Three questions to answer before you write anything. The four tests every goal has to pass. The trade-off nobody names.

Page two and three — the writing space. Two big goals, with real room for the goal itself, why it matters, mid-year checkpoint markers, and what you're trading away to get it. Two is the number. Three is what people pick when they can't admit two is enough.

Page four — the quarterly audit. One question, four times a year, fifteen minutes each. Anti-goals at the top — the lines you won't cross even when the year tests them. Year-end review at the bottom.

What it isn't

A vision board. A SMART-goal acronym refresher. A motivational PDF you'll save to your desktop and never open. A list of five reasons why intentionality matters.

What it costs

Nothing. Add it to cart, check out at zero, and the download arrives in your email. Print it, fold it into a notebook, pin it where you'll see it without trying. 

Format

PDF, four pages, designed for letter-size print. Works on screen if you must. Better on paper.

Plan the year. Then defend it.

— Career Curve