How to achieve your goals in 2026

2025-12-14 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:34 · watch on YouTube

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

Ali walks through his GPS method for achieving 2026 goals: a goal with reasons and anti-goals, a plan of three to five moves made of projects and habits and sense-checked with two 0-to-10 ratings, and a system of reminders, accountability, tracking and time blocking.

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 GPS method: goal, plan, system

• ★★ Ali presents the GPS method, goal, plan and system, as the way to maximise your chances of achieving your goals in 2026. — 00:00:00 · GPS: goal, plan, system
• ★★ For the goal in the GPS method, Ali advises identifying the goal you want to move towards, your reasons for it, and its constraints or anti-goals: what you do not want to happen. — 00:00:00 · GPS: goal, plan, system
• ★★ In Ali's GPS method a plan is the three to five major chess moves that will get you to the goal, made up of projects, collections of tasks that can be completed, and habits you do every day; for a marathon, finding a running coach is a project and doing the coach's training every day the habit. — 00:00:00 · GPS: goal, plan, system
• ★★★ Ali advises sense-checking a plan by rating from 0 to 10 how likely you are to reach the goal if you actually follow it; the number should be above 80%, since there is no point choosing a plan unlikely to reach the goal. — 00:00:29 · GPS: goal, plan, system
• ★★ Ali's second sense check of a plan is to rate from 0 to 10 how likely you are to actually follow it, so that the plan works in theory and you can follow it in practice. — 00:00:58 · GPS: goal, plan, system
• ★★ A system to stick to the plan, in Ali's GPS method, generally has reminders, accountability squads or buddies, a way of tracking progress towards the goal, and time blocking in a calendar. — 00:00:58 · GPS: goal, plan, system, time-blocking

Threads in this video

• refine · Should you set goals, and how? — Ali advises sense-checking a plan by rating from 0 to 10 how likely you are to reach the goal if you actually follow it; the number should be above 80%, since there is no point choosing a plan unlikely to reach the goal. (00:00:29)
• progress update · Ali plans to make more videos about his productivity GPS (goal, plan, system) on his YouTube channel (2024) — Ali presents the GPS method, goal, plan and system, as the way to maximise your chances of achieving your goals in 2026. (00:00:00)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• Ali plans to make more videos about his productivity GPS (goal, plan, system) on his YouTube channel (2024) — kept; last: progress update, 2025-12-14

Mentioned

Central: GPS: goal, plan, system

Also: accountability buddy · anti-goal · time-blocking

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