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How to actually achieve your goals 🎉

2024-01-15 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:41 · watch on YouTube

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

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali calls the 12-month celebration his favourite method for turning dreams into actions: picture dinner with your best friend a year from now, write down the progress you would celebrate, then work out what to do over the year and the first action step.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — The 12-month celebration: from dreams to a first action step

  • ★★ Ali's favourite method for turning dreams into actions is the 12-month celebration: imagine dinner with your best friend in a year and write down the progress you'd report in each area. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ To act on a 12-month celebration, Ali advises asking what you would need to do over the next year and what the first action step is, such as joining a gym, polishing your CV or a weekly chat with your mum. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali keeps his 12-month celebration in a Google Doc bookmarked in his web browser and scans it whenever he sits down to begin work, to remind himself what it looks like. — 00:00:29 · Google Docs

Threads in this video

  • refine · Should you set goals, and how? — To act on a 12-month celebration, Ali advises asking what you would need to do over the next year and what the first action step is, such as joining a gym, polishing your CV or a weekly chat with your mum. (00:00:00)

Mentioned

Central: 12-month celebration

Also: Google Docs

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

Also centred on 12-month celebration: How to Make Next Year The Best Year of Your Life · How to Change your Life in a Year (3 Simple Ideas)

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