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How to Actually Stick to Your Goals

2025-06-19 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:11 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Goals, purpose and life design · mode: Explanation and tutorial

In a Short, Ali lays out his GPS method for goal setting: a goal defined by its facts, feelings and function, a plan of three to five major chess moves, and a system of daily or weekly actions that keeps you on the plan.

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00:00:00 — GPS: goal, plan, system

  • ★★★ Ali's GPS method for goal setting: the goal, defined by three Fs (the facts once it is done, the feelings it will bring and its function, why you care about it); the plan, three to five major chess moves to reach it; and the system, what you do every day or week to stick to the plan. — 00:00:00 · GPS: goal, plan, system

  • ★★ In Ali's GPS, the goal is where you are going, the plan is how you get there and the system is how you stick to the plan. — 00:00:29 · GPS: goal, plan, system

    “plan is how you're getting there, and system is how you're gonna stick to the plan.”

  • ★ Ali says he has a whole YouTube video series on figuring out your life direction and setting goals that covers the GPS method in far more detail. — 00:00:29 · GPS: goal, plan, system

00:00:50 — The free quarterly goal-setting workshop

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