How to achieve your 12 month goals 🙌

2024-01-02 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:51 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Goals, purpose and life design · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali suggests reaching 12-month goals by choosing three alignment quests each morning, in health, work and relationships, that move you a small step towards where you want to be in a year, with examples for a college student and a working parent.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Three daily alignment quests towards your 12-month goals

• ★★ Ali says short-term targets feel much easier to reach than long-term ones. — 00:00:00
• ★★★ Each morning, Ali advises choosing three actions for the day, alignment quests in health, work and relationships, that move you a tiny step closer to where you want to be in a year's time. — 00:00:00
• ★ For a college student aiming at better grades, fitness and friendships, Ali's example alignment quests are a 30-minute run after class, an extra hour studying for the next day's exam and coffee with Catherine. — 00:00:00
• ★ For a working parent, Ali's example alignment quests are a 15-minute walk at lunch, finishing a project proposal draft by lunchtime, and cooking a healthy family dinner and spending time together. — 00:00:00
• ★★ By focusing on the immediate short-term steps rather than the whole year ahead, Ali says, you turn living your values into something immediate and achievable. — 00:00:29

Threads in this video

• refine · Should you set goals, and how? — Each morning, Ali advises choosing three actions for the day, alignment quests in health, work and relationships, that move you a tiny step closer to where you want to be in a year's time. (00:00:00)

Mentioned

Central: daily quests

Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

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