- Pick a goal from your ideal future book chapters.
- Imagine that the terms of your life have radically changed.
- Make a list of steps you need to achieve your goal in the next 12 months.
This is a really good exercise. It reminds me of when I was teaching business writing and made my students create employment portfolios. These sophomore and junior students thought that they would graduate and magically get a job paying $50,000/year, buy a house with a white picket fence and drive a BMW. When I asked them “How do you plan to get there?” they look dumbfounded. Like by virtue of the fact that they went to college and they were who they were, a company would come crawling to offer them a job. Yea, right. You and every other recent graduate who is wet behind the ears is exactly what the biggest name, largest paying companies want to hire.
So we would set that pipe-dream as a goal and then backtrack with the question “Who do you get from where you are now to there?” and then they realized there was more work involved on their part. Of course, I didn’t even think about applying this concept to my writing. Duh! LOL
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