How To Actually Achieve Your Goals in 2025 (Evidence-Based)

These are the stupidly simple 5 steps that I'm going to be following to help me achieve my goals in 2025. I hope they help you too! Enjoy xx

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🔗 PAPERS REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO:
Writing down your goals – https://scholar.dominican.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002u0026context=psychology-faculty-conference-presentations
Monitoring goal progress – https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000025.pdf
Mental contrasting – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17437199.2019.1594332
Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self – https://sparq.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj19021/files/media/file/bryan_et_al._2011_-_motivating_voter_turnout_by_invoking_the_self.pdf

WHO AM I?
If we haven’t met before – Hey 👋 I’m Ali, a doctor-turned-entrepreneur and I’ve somehow become the world’s most followed productivity expert. Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing, I share evidence-based strategies and tools to help you be more productive and build a life you love.

⌚️Timestamps:
0:00 – Why I'm making this video
1:12 – 1. Write Them Down
4:16 – 2. Look at them every week
8:14 – 3. Monitor your Progress
10:31 – 4. Visualise Obstacles
12:28 – 5. Tie them to an Identity