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This is how I plan my entire year

2025-12-10 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:27 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Goals, purpose and life design · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: His own products discussed

Ali's three-part annual review: reflect on the year, align to your North Star, and plan the next year around an annual theme rather than annual goals; the same steps run at his free Spark 2026 workshop on 3 and 4 January 2026.

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 three-part method for an annual review: reflect, align, plan

  • ★★★ Ali's annual review has three parts; the first is to reflect on how the year went, looking through your calendar for what you did, achievements, disappointments, new relationships and challenges. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ The second part of Ali's annual review is to align to your North Star, the long-term life you want, for which a sense of a life vision, mission or values helps. — 00:00:20
  • ★★★ For the third part, planning the next year, Ali does not like setting annual goals but suggests an annual theme word, such as renewal, freedom or hustle, as a guiding light for setting quarterly quests. — 00:00:41

00:00:58 — Spark 2026, the free two-day online workshop on 3 and 4 January 2026

  • ★★ Ali runs Spark 2026, a free two-day online workshop on Saturday and Sunday, 3 and 4 January 2026, a few hours each day, to reflect on 2025, align to your North Star and set goals for 2026. — 00:01:00

Threads in this video

  • refine · How should you review your year and plan the next? — Ali's annual review has three parts; the first is to reflect on how the year went, looking through your calendar for what you did, achievements, disappointments, new relationships and challenges. (00:00:00)
  • refine · Should you set goals, and how? — For the third part, planning the next year, Ali does not like setting annual goals but suggests an annual theme word, such as renewal, freedom or hustle, as a guiding light for setting quarterly quests. (00:00:41)
  • progress update · Ali plans to host more annual planning workshops (2024) — Ali runs Spark 2026, a free two-day online workshop on Saturday and Sunday, 3 and 4 January 2026, a few hours each day, to reflect on 2025, align to your North Star and set goals for 2026. (00:01:00)

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Central: Spark

Also: quarterly quest

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