Future Performance Training
After you have a vision of your whole-life goals, you can frame them into a desire statement in preparation for generating options and an action plan. A desire statement is a simple expression of a vision for yourself for your future.
What did you see when you emailed yourself as your inner coach? Perhaps you saw yourself running your own business? Maybe you got a vision of wonderful family life? Or did you see yourself using a talent or passion in a certain way?
Time to place your goals on your horizon with the following activity so you know where you’re heading!
Take each of your whole-life goals and condense them into a short desire statement. Your desire statement for wealth may look something like this example:
- I want to be a successful and talented businessperson, creating the wealth that I need to provide my family with the lifestyle that we all want.
Think of the time period in which you want to achieve your whole-life goals – it could be a year or 20 years – and choose an image to represent your path. You may like the idea of a mountain range to represent your ultimate destination, or perhaps the point where the sea and sky meet in a coastal landscape. Maybe you’ll choose the night sky and focus on the furthest star.
Place each of your whole-life goals on the terrain ahead of you, approximately where you think they’ll be in the time when you achieve them. As you place them, think of the images and feelings associated with each goal and repeat your desire statement to yourself. For example, you may get an image of your perfect home that represents for you a goal of family life, or a trophy to symbolize a sporting achievement like running a marathon.
Recall this visualization regularly to keep your own big-picture vision for your life sharply in focus.