A Letter From Your Future

Writing your Letter FROM the Future

Writing a vision of yourself…

In Grant and Greene’s Coach Yourself (2002), the authors suggest writing a letter from your future self to help you decide what’s most important to you and what to focus on.  Simply pick a time in the future … as little as three months ahead or as long as three years ahead! 

Now, place yourself on that day, in that time, and imagine you have succeeded, and everything in your life had gone the way you wanted.  Reflect on what has happened during that time.  What did you do?  How do you feel?  What were the keys to your success?  How did others help you?

There is no one right way to write this letter – this letter is to you, from your future self.  Stuck for inspiration?  Try starting your letter like this: 

Dear Me,

It is <select day in the future> and I’ve woken up in a reflective mood.  I feel so pleased with how everything has fallen into place for me!  It all started with me …

… what was the first step you took?

… Decision you made? 

… Person you told? 

I’m so glad I kept focused on …

Without <who>, I wouldn’t have been able to get to this point …

I’m proud of how I …

Now go!  What did you do that kickstarted this incredible journey of yours?  Visualize the future you want, engage your emotions and write down what you did to get there! 

This is an extremely powerful activity and will take some time!  Dedicating the time to this will reap you benefits.  Make sure to incorporate your ZipCode Wellness success into your letter.  After all, we can see your future-self smashing it out of the park, so we want you to, too!