Why I Failed My Goals in 2025 (And How I'm Fixing 2026)

Motivation is a feeling, not a strategy. If your plan for 2026 relies on "trying harder" or "staying motivated," you are fighting a losing battle against your own biology.

In this video, I do a raw breakdown of my 2025. Where I succeeded, but more importantly, where I failed. I discovered that I wasn't failing because I was lazy; I was failing because my systems were broken.

We’re going to look at the 4 scientific reasons why we struggle to achieve our goals (from the Planning Fallacy to Hyperbolic Discounting) and then build a bulletproof system for 2026 that works even when you have zero motivation.

The goal isn't to be perfect. The goal is to be consistent.

=== TIMESTAMPS ===
00:00 - 00:53 - Intro Montage
00:55 - 01:26 - Intro
01:38 - 02:56 - The 2025 Scorecard
02:56 - 04:10 - The Science of Failure
04:10 - 05:27 - 2026 System
05:27 - 05:50 - Conclusion

📚 Concepts Covered:
The Motivation Trap: Why dopamine is unreliable fuel.
The Planning Fallacy: Why we always underestimate the work.
Decision Fatigue: How to stop burning mental energy.
Identity-Based Habits: Shifting from "what I want" to "who I am."

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=== ABOUT ME ===
My name is Lucia Mangena and I am a 2nd year mechanical engineering student at IIE MSA (Monash South Africa). I like to make videos about university and productivity, engineering and parts of my life. Thank you for watching!!

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