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Vision in Four Timed Steps

The four timed steps behind a personal vision: a letter from your future self, a success list, the patterns underneath, and a vision statement in the present tense.

40 minutesCompanion to Fundamentals, What Is Your Vision?SELF LEADERSHIPALIGNMENT
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How to use this sheet
  1. Set a timer for each step and stop when it rings: the time limit keeps the safe answers out.
  2. Write the letter from three years ahead, in the present tense, as fact, not as a maybe.
  3. List real successes, personal and professional, then underline what keeps coming back.
  4. Only then write the vision: a few sentences, present tense. It is temporary on purpose: rewrite it as you get closer.
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  1. Letter from your future self, 15 minutes

    Three years from now, it went well. Write to someone you trust and tell them what happened: your life, your work, the people around you.

  2. Success list, 10 minutes

    Real successes so far, personal and professional, big and small.

  3. Gathering insights, 8 minutes

    Read back steps 1 and 2. Note what recurs under six themes: environment, skills, emotions, beliefs, values, purpose.

  4. Vision statement, 6 minutes

    A few sentences, present tense, built from the themes above.

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Source Based on Stephen Covey's vision principle, from First Things First. The future-self writing exercise adapted by Mat Dufour.