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What is going on? And welcome to Episode 12 of the Fight Science made simple podcast. If you're new, welcome, I'm coach Adam Snyder. I'm a lifelong martial artist. I'm an MMA fighter and I'm a performance and recovery coach for combat athletes [...0.6s] fighters.Super excited to have you here. If you're new to the podcast, you do these episodes every single Monday, and like the name of the podcast [...0.8s] States, we make fight science simple.So I break down straining, conditioning, nutrition, recovery, mindset, [...0.5s] tactics and strategies and systems to help you perform better on [...0.4s] mats, in the cage, in the ring, off the mats as well.So if you knew the podcast, really happy to have you, the best thing that you can do to support the podcast is share this podcast with somebody else, a teammate, a training partner, a friend, a coach, someone that can benefit from what we're putting out.And also if you're digging what we're putting out and you find a lot of value in these podcasts, please follow the podcast. My mission is to [...0.6s] completely change the way that people train and approach combat sports.We're still outdated in the combat sports space when it comes to how we work out, how we train, how we feel ourselves, how we recover. And so my goal was to help as many combat athletes and fighters as possible train for as long as possible with the most success possible.And so that's why I put these podcasts out to help you have better cardio, better, [...0.4s] better power, [...0.6s] their nutrition, and just more confidence to really get after your goals and crush it in the fight space. So please share the podcast and follow if you find it valuable.Today's episode I'm really excited for as we close out the year here. We're gonna be talking about goal setting for the New Year and [...0.5s] annual planning for the New Year. You know, a lot of people around this time. I've been coaching for a very long time.I started learning how to coach when I was 12 years old, [...0.5s] um, and usually with skills training. So I started with helping out with like little children's [...0.4s] kids karate classes. And I grew up in the school in my school learning how to manage the school, teach adult classes as I got older.As a young adult, I was coaching the adult through weight loss and striking and jiu jitsu. And then I've been doing fight science since 2,019.So I've been coaching for a very, very long time [...0.7s] in this time of year. It's [...0.4s] very normal for people to maybe lose a little bit of motivation, lose a bit of momentum, fall off track from their goals. Cause it's just the nature of the year with the holidays off from work, vacation time what the world itself just kind of shuts down for this time of year. But then people hit January, you know how it is.New Year's resolution. They hit January with a lot of energy and a lot of excitement a lot of excitement I'm going to achieve this, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna make all these big goals happen. And most people fall off within the first month or two from the New Year happening.And one of the biggest reasons people fail to hit their New Year's goals, and they end up in the cycle where they set these big goals, they start off strong, they fall back into old routines, I'll get to it next year, and then they kind of just stay where they are or most people end up getting worse and going backwards year after year is because [...0.7s] a, they don't write anything down, any of these goals down, and b, they don't have a vision, they don't have a plan, they don't have a path for where they're going.And one of my favorite quote, quotes, it's kind of cliche, but, you know, everybody, you know, you're planning to fail yeah, I fucked the quote up completely.It's one of my favorite quotes and I fucked it up. The, the quote is if you failed a plan, you're planning to fail. I think it's like a Benjamin Franklin quote or something like that, but if you're failing the plan, you're planning to fail.And most people go into the New Year without a plan. And so what I'm going to do in today's episode is help you create a plan and a system for setting goals for the New Year and staying on track.So you can attack the year with the most focus, the most clarity, and the highest rate of success that you'll ever have an entire year.Whether you're looking to go for no next year and crush every single fight that you accomplish, you wanna get your next belt on a match, you wanna finally lose that weight and get an incredible shape, this is going to help you do that in the best way possible.And so when it comes to goal setting at the Fight Science Collective, we have a five step process that I take my clients through.I actually just taught them this process on Saturday inside of our coaching program. We have a monthly masterclass called [...0.5s] The Champions Code, which is basically this podcast, but on crack, we go even deeper. It's a private client only masterclass.They get [...0.6s] private access to every single replay as a, as a podcast. And so on Saturday, we did a really deep dive into our goal setting process.I'm gonna give you some of the spark notes from that if you want the full version of our goal setting process. You're gonna have to be in our coaching program to get access to that masterclass replay, but I'm gonna give you. There's gonna be so much value, value for you here.Okay, so [...0.7s] five step process that we're gonna walk you through. At the end of this process, you're gonna have a really solid framework on how to set goals going into the New Year and how to have a plan to set you up to have the most success.Okay, step one is a review of 2025. This is super important. Before you can set goals for 2026, you have to reflect back on your 2025. Chances are you have goal set for 2025 and so you have to look back.The very first thing that you're gonna do when you reflect on your 2025 is to celebrate your wins. What is everything that you accomplished in this past year? The big things and the small things. The small wins are big wins.So what I want you to do is I want you to sit down and I want you to write every fucking win down. I want you to celebrate everything that you accomplished in 2025.That's the first thing that you're gonna do.The second thing that you're going to do is have an honest [...0.6s] and unemotional reflection of everything that you didn't accomplish or everything that you could have done better in. And the keyword here is unemotional, all right? There's no judgment. There's no beating yourself up.There's no feeling bad about not accomplishing everything that you set out to do in this year. There's things that I set out to do that I didn't accomplish. I wanted to make my pro debut this year and I wanted to win an amateur belt this year.I tore my ACL and I've had staff infection for a year straight. None of those things happened. And so that's okay. I'm not happy that those things didn't happen. I'm also not beating myself up about it and destroy my life and feeling bad about there were a lot of lessons and I accomplished a lot. And you need to do the same. You need to look back and look at everything, all the goals that you set.Where did you fall short? What did you say you were gonna do this year and you didn't do? What could you have done better in? You need to write all of these things down and you have to be unemotionally attached to it. You can't beat yourself up about it.So very important step one to setting goals and crushing in 2026 is reviewing your 2025. What did you do? Well, celebrate those wins hard. Where did you fall short and what could you do better? Write those things down, but do it on emotionally without any kind of judgment or attachment.Okay, that's the very first step.Review [...1.0s] the second step. And this is super important because, [...0.7s] you know, when you set goals, a lot of times people say they want to accomplish things. I wanna fight, I wanna make it to the UFC, I wanna be a world champion, I wanna make a million dollars, I wanna have this car, I wanna set my family up for life. A lot of people say they want to achieve these things.And a lot of the times deep down in their heart and their soul, in the deepest parts of their mind, they don't really want to accomplish those things. They just think their goals that [...0.6s] either would feel nice to have or they should be accomplishing or should be setting.Like I definitely have felt that as a fighter, [...0.5s] you know, my goal is not to be a UFC champion, but I've been training since I was five years old. I've been training and fighting for a very, very long time.There was a point in my fight career where I said I wanted to be a UFC champion. I didn't really want to be a UFC champion, but I said it because it's what I thought I was supposed to say.But [...0.7s] the reality is that, that goal [...0.5s] wasn't really [...0.6s] attached to [...0.7s] any kind of [...1.0s] personal values, any kind of why, any kind of deeper code. And so step two of goal setting for the new years, we call this creating your personal operating system.And basically what this is, is we're getting connected to your personal values. You have to understand what is your why, why are you doing what you're doing what is the foundation of who you are as a human, and why you want to achieve [...0.5s] anything in this life? And that has to be the backbone of every goal that you set.So some personal values could be connection, discipline, [...0.6s] love, [...0.5s] integrity, hard work, right? Like, you have to understand at your core of a human being, what drives you, what are your values, what impact do you wanna have on this world?What do you truly want to accomplish in this world? And that needs to be the foundation of your goals, because [...0.7s] if you don't know your values and you set a goal, it could be very far off from what you actually want in the world.The other side of that is like, if you know your values and you sit down to write your goals, then you can very [...0.5s] objectively look at it and be like, okay, this goal is not aligned with my values and who I am at my core and who I want to be as a human. And so this isn't a goal that's gonna serve me.But this is, [...0.6s] and this is really important because [...1.0s] when you're chasing goals anything worth accomplishing in this life is going to be hard. There's going to be adversity. You're going to want to quit. You're not going to be motivated.That's just the reality of it. And so if your goal is not deeply connected to your values and your essence and your cores human being, what's going to happen is when adversity inevitably comes, you're gonna quit or you're gonna make excuses and it's gonna knock you off track.But if your [...0.5s] goal is so deeply rooted to your values, and your core of the human, and your why in this universe, then [...0.5s] when that time of adversity comes, when the universe tests how bad you actually want it, when you want to quit and fall off of these goals, [...1.1s] your values are what carry you through, and keep you locked in, and keep you showing up, and keep you progressing even when you don't fucking want to do it.Okay, [...0.6s] and so if [...0.7s] you have a hard time [...1.4s] figuring out what your values are, you have no idea what your values are. You've never done any kind of exercise like this one thing that you can use a prompt that I actually got from my mentor that I give to my clients now.It's a prompt that you can put into chat GBT . And all you're gonna write is act as a skilled interview interviewer. Your job is to extract, clarify and confirm my personal values. Ask one question at a time, and do not move forward until I answer.Keep it conversational, concise and non leading. So put that prompt into chat GBT and it will help you extract your personal values. Once you know your personal values, then you can write those down and then you can start to create goals around your personal values.And that's part of step two, right? We call this creating your personal operating system. What is your foundation? What is the, what is the system that you operate as? Like if you think about your phone, your phone runs on operating system. It's the code that allows your phone do everything that it does. You have an operating system. What is your code? Your personal values are the foundation of that code. So run that chat GBT [...0.4s] prompt.The second thing that you need to do in creating your personal operating system, and what I do is writing down [...0.6s] supporting affirmations.Okay, an affirmation is like an I am statement, I am grateful, I am confident, I am the best fighter in the world, [...0.7s] abundance flows my way. And [...0.5s] these are statements that are going to be aligned with [...0.6s] your values and what you want to accomplish most, and who you want to be the most in this world.And I know it affirmations can sound a little like voodoo over manifesting. But it, they're super powerful, and they're, [...0.8s] they're so [...0.7s] strong and powerful at helping you achieve whatever you wanna achieve, whether you wanna be a world champion, whether you wanna win more fights, whether you wanna make a ton of money, whether you wanna be the best dad [...0.6s] or mother possible.You need to have these affirmations to [...0.5s] reprogram [...1.1s] your base programming in your brain. You see, like, when you grow up, [...0.7s] your brain, your subconscious brain, it picks up patterns through parents, through coaches, through life experience. And this base programming and pattern is you, it's who you are.And what happens is we pick up a lot of beliefs about ourselves and about the world and about others. And a lot of these beliefs can be limiting beliefs that hold you back from success.So if you have a really big goal that might be a little bit scary, but you feel some level of doubt or some level of uncertainty or some level of fear, or something is holding you back from achieving what you want to achieve, chances are it's probably you, and it's probably a limiting belief that you have.And so by having a list of affirmations that you read every single day, it allows you to start reprogramming those limiting beliefs into empowering beliefs.A great example at, like, a surface level could be, like, if you feel like you are a shitty wrestler, this is another personal example. And you tell yourself, I'm a shitty wrestler, I'm not good wrestler, I'm a better striker, then that's gonna be your reality.But if you reprogram your brain, and you read it every single day, I'm a dominant wrestler, I'm an unstoppable wrestler, I'm a relentless wrestler, your actions have to back that shit up, right?You can't just read that every single day and expect it to be true. You have to show up to practice, you have to watch film, you have to build your cardio, you have to do all the things that a successful wrestler would do.But reading that out loud, your subconscious brain will hear that, and it will start to be reprogrammed. So the same things be true for whatever you're setting out. I'm a champion, I'm the best in the world, I'm unstoppable, I'm relentless, I'm disciplined.Whatever [...0.8s] the programming you need to succeed in your goals is, like, it needs to be written into your personal operating system. So step one is review of 2025. What did you accomplish? What you do well, what did you fall short? What could you have done better?Step two is creating a personal operating system, getting really connected with what your personal values are, and then writing down a list of affirmations with the 2.0 version of yourself, right.Updating your operating system into [...0.4s] what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. To have [...0.6s] a, the biggest impact on the world, honestly, but b, to get the most fulfillment and enjoyment and success you possibly can on and off the mats.Step three is [...0.6s] the fun part, is the goal setting part. Once you get the foundational stuff out of the way, then you can start setting goals. And when we set goals at the Fight Science Collective, we set four kinds of goals. Okay?And we have seven different categories that we set goals in, but we'll talk about those in a little bit. It's very important that when you set goals, there are laws that your goals have to fit into.I don't know if you've heard the term smart goal before, but this is a really important framework. I didn't pick up this framework. Um, I didn't invent it, but it is a really, really key framework in order to help you succeed.It gives you clarity, gives you specificity, and it just helps you stay on track and make sure that your goals are actually something that are within your bounds of achieving.So smart goals, yes, stands for specific. You have to be really, really, really specific and clear on exactly what it is that you're looking to accomplish.And there's m, there's, it needs to be measurable. You need to have some way, some kind of data to track your progress and know if you achieve that goal or not. If you're trying to get better cardio, then your resting heart rate could be a great metric to measure the improvement of your cardio.Okay, [...0.8s] uh, the second thing is that it needs to be attainable, right? It needs to be within your bounds. So one example could be, [...0.5s] you know, if you haven't even made your amateur debut yet, then it's not attainable goal for you to make it to the UFC in 2026. That's not going to happen.Okay, so probably a more attainable goal would be like, okay, I'm gonna make my pro debut, my amateur debut, and then I'm gonna go undefeated as an amateur. That's an attainable goal. It has to be realistic, you have to be able to accomplish it in that time frame.Um, it also has to be a relevant goal, has to be relevant to you and has to be relevant to the bigger goals that you have.So, like, for example, if your, if your big goal is to become a UFC champion, but then you have another goal that set around, like breaking [...0.6s] record Marathon times or [...0.7s] racing cars, or, you know, you, you're setting goals that are [...0.7s] not attached to your primary goal, then [...0.5s] there's gonna be a lack of congruency.And so [...0.5s] you have to think about, like, what your big goals are, what all of your goals are, and how to connect your values, and there has to be some kind of relevance between them and who you are at your core. And the final part is time bound.Put it, put a time [...0.4s] stamp on it, put a due date put a deadline on the goals that you set, because [...0.9s] there's this, there's this rule, a law of the universe is called Parkinson's Law where work expands to the time that you a lot for it.So an example could be, like, if you're gonna, [...0.6s] if you're gonna [...0.9s] go and train I'm gonna go lift weights and I don't have any kind of plan and I'm just gonna go to the gym and I'm gonna machine hop. It might take you three hours to that workout.Whereas, like, okay, I'm gonna [...0.6s] hit these exercises and I only have an hour to get them in. You're gonna probably hit those exercises in that hour, whereas if you don't give yourself a time frame, it's gonna take you way longer than an hour to get it done.And goals are the same way, right? If you say, like, okay, I wanna lose X amount of pounds but you don't set a time frame on it, then the chances of you losing that weight are much lower, cause you're just gonna push it off, push it off, push it off push it off where it's like okay I have 12 weeks to lose 20 pounds.Okay, you're gonna lock the fuck in and lose the weight, so you have to have a time bound goal, so that's the Smart Goal framework. Okay, specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time out.Okay, so that's the first of the laws of setting goals. Now like I said, we're gonna set four kinds of goals [...0.4s] across seven different categories.Okay, so the four goals that we're going to set, you're gonna set a big dream. Okay, what is your most aspirational goal? It should be [...0.4s] almost a little scary, I'm gonna be a double champ, I'm gonna be a UFC champ. It should be like, oh fuck, [...1.3s] can I really do that?There should be a little bit of fear and a little bit of uncertainty attached to it should be a big, massive goal. If it's like, yeah, I can do that. If you're super comfortable with the goal, it's not big enough.Okay, but it has to be realistic as well. Like I'm gonna be a four time division champion. Four division champion, probably not a realistic goal. Okay so it's gotta be realistic, but it's gotta be a little bit scary as well. So we're gonna set big dream goals then we're gonna set five year goals.In the next five years, where are you going to be? There's gonna be a longer term goal that's gonna be an intermediate step to help you get to your big dream goal. So what are your five year goals? Write it down.Then your three year goals, what is a more [...1.1s] moderate step, still bigger than now, but a more moderate step that will lead you to your five year goal, that will lead you to your big dream goal and then your one year goal.Alright. What are you going to accomplish in 2026? Alright, that is the most [...0.4s] actionable and the most specific goal that you set your 3, 5 big dream goals. They might change over time as you gain more life experience, as you change as a human, as different things shift.And so [...0.8s] you can dream, you have full permission to dream as big as possible when you set these goals. But your one year goal is gonna be [...0.4s] the most specific, three year goals gonna be a little bit less specific, five year goals and be less specific.Big goal is gonna be more of that dreaming output. Okay, this is the four category or the four kinds of goals that you're gonna set. And now you're gonna set seven categories for your goals, seven different kind of goals that you're gonna set within each time frame.Okay, so our seven categories, you're gonna set financial goals, all right, [...0.6s] goals related to your money in big dreams, five years, three years, [...0.5s] one year time frame. Then relationship goals is could be friends, families, partners, children.You're gonna see the same thing are four categories. Big goal, five year, three year, one goal, you're gonna set relationship goals, then you're gonna do the same with career goals. If you're a fighter, this is gonna be about your fight career, how many times you gonna fight? What are you going to accomplish?What belts are you gonna get? What kind of recognition you get, what's your brand gonna look like? If you're a hobbyist, this could be related to your actual career, right, like, what, what different landmarks in your job are you gonna hit?As a [...0.6s] firefighter, as an accountant, right, you're gonna set your career goals, then you're gonna set your physical goals.Okay, whether it's about losing weight, or it's about your health, or if you're a hobby is, this could be about, I'm gonna get my black belt by X amount of time, right, like physical goals about your body, about your health [...0.6s] very important. Then your mental goals is going to be about mindset.This is going to be about mental resilience again over our four different categories. Then you're going to set spiritual goals. This could be related to god, religion, faith [...0.8s] presence, if you're not as religious, some kind of [...0.4s] spiritual connection for yourself.And the final category of goals, they're gonna be your environmental goals. So it's gonna be the spaces that you live, where you live, what you have in your space, what your space looks like, how you approach your space. And those seven categories are really important.Okay, so you're gonna, first step one, we're gonna review, you're gonna review your 2025, what went well? Where could you done better?Then you're gonna create your personal operating system based on your personal values and beliefs, and then your list of affirmations that are aligned with those beliefs. Then you're gonna set your goals.Every goal that you set is gonna be a smart goal. You're gonna set big goals, big dreams, five year goals, three year goals, one year goals over the course of seven categories, finances career, relationships, physical health, mental health, spirituality, and your environment.Okay, [...0.5s] very important, write all this shit now. Like, you gotta have all this down, have your vision, have it in place.And it's so important that you write it down because if it just lives in your head, then [...1.4s] our thoughts and emotions change every single day throughout the seconds, throughout the minutes. And so these things get convoluted.What happens is, you know, you know what you want at your core, but you might wake up one morning and you're having a bad day, or emotionally something happened in your life and it's wrecking you, or like a great example.I'll give you another personal example. My staff infection. It's fucking with my head a little bit. I haven't been able to train in over a week, and I'm probably not going to be able to train in another two weeks. It fucking sucks. I've had staph infection for over a year. I tour my ACL, I had my first loss this year.These are [...0.6s] all challenging things that have happened, and there are a lot of days where I've woken up, and I haven't wanted to do the things that are aligned with me going pro me being the fucking best coaster fighters on the planet for me, [...0.6s] really feeling and fulfilling my greatest potential. Because my goals and my vision are so clear and connect to my values. And I have them written down. I can read them every single day.It keeps me showing up, and it keeps me putting the work in even when I don't want to.All right, that's why writing the shit down is so, so important. Okay, so that's step three, [...0.7s] step 4 of this tire entire process is once you know what your goals are, you're going to start to outline the execution of your goals at Fight Science.What I do is I teach our clients how to organize their goals and their life like a CEO would organize their business.So if you think about a calendar year, the year is broken up into four quarters. Okay, Q1 is January through March, Q2 is April through [...1.1s] June. January, March, April, May, June, yep, gotta count my fingers. At school, Q3 is July through September, and then Q4 is October through December.Alright. And so what you're gonna do is you're gonna break your life up into these four quarters and then your list of goals that you have for the year. You're going to [...0.5s] roughly outline when you're going to prioritize each goal and when you're going to accomplish them throughout the year.Now [...0.8s] the Mike Tyson quote, everybody has a plan to get punched in the face is very true.You're gonna set this plan for yourself and you're gonna have this outline and chances are shit is gonna get in the way, they're gonna be speed bumps. You're gonna plan all this and unexpected things are going to pop up.But it's better to have some kind of plan and some kind of outline, some kind of structure than no structure at all. And one thing that I teach my clients to do is periodize their goals and their life the same way that I would periodize their strength conditioning plan.Like, when I write a strength and conditioning program for somebody, they have hard days and light days and medium days, they have hard weeks and light weeks and medium weeks.They have hard [...0.5s] months and light months and medium months. We are undulating the intensity of their training throughout the year.And the same thing has to go through your goal setting and through your accomplishments. Like a perfect example is [...0.8s] the holidays. The holidays are naturally going to be a lower intensity season in your life, and I think it fucks up so many people is because they don't plan for it. They're not, they're not ready for it. They, they forget.Oh yeah, it's the holidays and then it just shows up versus if you sit down at the end of the year and plan out your entire year, and, you know, okay, cool, like the holiday time probably gonna be a little bit lower intensity.Birthdays are here, probably gonna be a little bit lower intensity. I have a vacation planned here, gonna be lower intensity. Q1. We're gonna fucking go hard! Q one's gonna be a hardcore, we're gonna push it. Q2 might be a little bit more medium, but I'm gonna fight here.Map out your fights, map out your competitions, map out [...0.5s] the different events that you have going on your life. Birthday, travel trips, holidays, have all these things planned ahead of time, so you have an outline of what your years going to fucking look like.So that shit doesn't sneak up on you and blindside you. And at least you're ready for the things you can control. Or when the inevitable things that happen that you can't control come up, they don't wreck you as much because you have some kind of plan and some kind of outline. You have [...0.8s] an idea of when you're going to accomplish these things.Okay, [...0.6s] so step 1, review 2025, step 2, create your personal operating system. Step 3, set your goals. Step 4, map out the execution of your goals.And the fifth step of our goal setting process that we teach our clients is to create a vision board. I love Fucking Vision Board. I don't care what anybody says. I think I don't know if it was last year, the year before, but Joe Rogan had a podcast where he was shitting on vision boards.I disagree. I think vision boards are fucking awesome because it gives you a [...0.6s] visual representation of what you want to accomplish, who you want to be, [...1.0s] where you wanna go in this world, what you wanna have, how you wanna feel.And it allows you to put yourself into that version of yourself to visualize what it feels like to accomplish those things. And this just helps with the process of reprogramming your subconscious brain and rebuilding you into that version of yourself that you can envision.So what I do is once I set my goals, I actually do this with my partner, Alexandra. We create our vision boards together, [...0.8s] uh, cause it's fun and it's cute.We also set our goals together for the year cause we have a lot of alignment in our relationship and where we wanna go in our lives, are very much on board for each other and ourselves as a unit.And so what I'll do is [...0.5s] think about my goals that I set and [...0.8s] really determine what is the most aligned for me in that moment.And then I'll go on Google and I'll go on Pinterest and I'll find images that have really the most, [...0.7s] that give me the most [...0.6s] emotional feeling about what I want to accomplish. Like I go based on feeling what resonates with me the most.I take those images and I use something like Canva to turn them into a collage and then I set it as the background of my phone and that's my phone background for the entire year, is my vision board. Um, what Ali and I are actually gonna do this year. I'm still gonna do that.I've done that for the last two years, but I also wanna create a physical vision board where we're gonna get magazines and cut out images and build it together.Because I think the [...1.3s] activity of dream building with your partner is such a powerful tool to [...0.7s] a, visualize your dreams together, solidify your dreams together, create a lot of alignment in your relationship, and just a good date idea to [...0.4s] dream together.It's very, very powerful, so we're gonna create a visual of physical vision board as well. The other thing that I'll do with our clients is we'll have them take images, or we'll take their image, their vision board, and we'll put it into their personal [...0.6s] operating system document.Cause everything that [...0.5s] you have from your values to your affirmations to your five year big dream, three year, one year goal, it's all gonna go in one document that, like, for me, it's on the note section of my phone, so I can read through it every single day.I can scan the affirmations, I can really be focused on my goals. Some people, we, you know, they'll print out, have a piece of paper, other people will write on a note card, but it needs to be somewhere where you can see it every single day, and the same goes for your vision board. It's just a visual representation of the goals that you set for yourself.Very, very important, [...0.5s] and that's it. That's the five step process to goal setting in planning your year for 2026 domination. Step one's gonna be a review of 2025, what went well, what didn't go well?Step two is gonna be creating your personal operating system, connecting with your personal values and having affirmations that support those values and goals.Step three is gonna be setting your goals are gonna be smart goals. You're gonna set a big goal, a five year goal, a three year goal, a one year goal over across seven different categories, [...0.5s] finances, career relationships, physical health, mental health, spirituality, and environment. You gonna write that all down to one document. You gonna map out the execution of the year. When are you achieving those goals? When are your low, medium and high intensity seasons?One of the different events of your life. Put it in a calendar, map it out, and then you're gonna create a vision board for all of this photos and images that represent what you're going to accomplish, and you're gonna be.They can be a combination of your big goals your five year goal, three year goal, one year goal, and compile it into one image. Okay, [...0.8s] um, some keys to success to help you really crush this entire process is read your goals every single day.Outline action steps to achieve your goals, cause it's one thing to have the goals, but at the end of the day, [...0.4s] you cannot control most of what happens in your life. You can't really control if you achieve your goals or not, but you can achieve the actions that you take every single day.So [...0.4s] one of my favorite things to do is you take your goals, you take your intentions, you write them down, you set them, and then you leave them up to the universe, you leave them up to god. And then you just focus on what you can control, which is taking action every single day. So outline those actions that you're gonna take every single day.And if you're in a relationship, if you have a partner, whether it's a girlfriend partner, wife, husband, whatever it is, [...0.5s] I highly recommend doing this process with them, like what I'm gonna do with Ali.I'm going to set my business and my fight career goals, and I'm gonna outline our financial goals.I'm going to do that separately. And then we're going to sit down together, [...0.5s] and we're gonna plan the rest of our year together. She's gonna set her own personal individual goals, and then we're gonna come together and we are on each other's teams. We are designing our life to support each other's goals both individually and as unit.We have so much alignment for everything that we're doing and we're consistently talking about it [...0.4s] all the time and checking in and making sure that we're on the same page. So [...0.5s] I encourage you to do the same.Alright, but there you go. That's a quick outline. Like I said, we have a deeper dive inside the Fight Science coaching program on specifically how to do this as a worksheet entire process that we take our clients through.If you're interested in learning a bit more about our coaching or at least just seeing if I can help you, feel free to shoot me a DM, DM me the word collective on Instagram and I'll reach out and see how I can help.But do not procrastinate this. The year's almost over lock in. We only have, I think, 16 days left of the year, so it's gonna fly by. Again, thanks for checking out the episode. If you found it valuable, why don't you follow the podcast, why don't you share this podcast with a friend, a teammate, training partner, coach? And until next time, have a great week. I'll catch you guys next week. Peace.