Try to get as granular as possible with your goals. To build your Gantt chart, you need to first list the goals that you want to achieve. Excel has a great template too, and Smartsheet has made some great templates using Google Sheets! Once you’ve gathered your supplies, it’s time to get to work.
We used this guide to make our example charts in PowerPoint. Here’s how that chart will translate with your financial goal setting. It’s okay if some tasks overlap, but they shouldn’t all be stacked on top of one another.īuilding a financial timeline can feel overwhelming, but a Gantt chart gives you a broad overhead view of when you may be hitting big financial milestones. For each task, you’ll put a bar that represents when you will start a task and how long it will take. On the vertical axis, you’ll see a list of tasks you want to achieve. Across the horizontal axis, you’ll see a breakdown of time.