Reverse Goal Setting: Craft Your Ideal Future

Spend time each morning visualizing your ideal future. Focus on the details of your daily life, your work, and your relationships.

Imagine the perfect person who could effortlessly achieve your goal. 'Imagine the person who could definitely already achieve this goal... what are the skills and the attributes and the assets and the knowledge that this person has that makes this goal inevitable for them?' What skills, attributes, assets, and knowledge do they possess? Consider employability capitals to craft the profile of someone that is perfectly primed to achieve your objective.

“Imagine the person who could definitely already achieve this goal... what are the skills and the attributes and the assets and the knowledge that this person has that makes this goal inevitable for them?”

Evaluate your current skills, attributes, assets, and knowledge using the same categories as the ideal person. Be honest with yourself. 'We're going to look at our current state and use the exact same items and do the same process. How do we score ourselves on each of these items and leave a few comments rationalizing and explaining why?'

“We're going to look at our current state and use the exact same items and do the same process. How do we score ourselves on each of these items and leave a few comments rationalizing and explaining why?”

Conduct a force field analysis to identify the barriers preventing you from developing the necessary skills and attributes, as well as the resources available to you. 'Do a force field analysis... identify the barriers and drivers to helping us achieve our goals.'

“Do a force field analysis... identify the barriers and drivers to helping us achieve our goals.”

Develop a detailed action plan focused on the immediate Next Step. 'Create the plan and this is focused on the immediate Next Step.' Use your resources to overcome barriers and incrementally improve your skills and attributes.

“Create the plan and this is focused on the immediate Next Step. The idea is how do we use the resources at our disposal to overcome the barriers we have identified and help us incrementally slightly improve and develop closer to becoming that ideal person that we have already envisioned.”

Spend time learning more about your goal itself. 'Spend more time to learn about the actual goal itself... observation is often better than insight.' Talk to people, do research, and observe successful individuals in your chosen field.

“Spend more time to learn about the actual goal itself... observation is often better than insight.”

Reflect on your methods, skills, techniques, and access to resources. 'Spend more time to learn more about yourself. Observe and reflect on the methods and the skills and the techniques and knowledge and assets that you use or have access to so you can give yourself a proper rating.' Track these factors over time to give yourself proper ratings.

“Spend more time to learn more about yourself. Observe and reflect on the methods and the skills and the techniques and knowledge and assets that you use or have access to so you can give yourself a proper rating.”

Estimate how long it will take to improve each item in your ideal person profile by one point. 'Look at each of your items and think how long would it take to improve each item by just one.' Consider the time needed to develop skills and improve.

“Look at each of your items and think how long would it take to improve each item by just one.”

Reflect on your progress, wins, and losses. What did you learn, and how will you apply it tomorrow?

Learn more about improving your learning efficiency and develop a plan to enhance your skills. 'If you want to learn a little bit more about how you can improve your learning efficiency and how to think about that and what you can do to set up a plan then I would recommend starting with this video here around how you can train your brain to become smarter'

“If you want to learn a little bit more about how you can improve your learning efficiency and how to think about that and what you can do to set up a plan then I would recommend starting with this video here around how you can train your brain to become smarter”

Understand why time management is sometimes overrated and discover strategies for effective prioritization and focus. 'If you're wanting to learn a little bit more about time management how you can improve that then you might want to start with this episode here where I talk about why time management is a lot of cases a little bit overrated'

“If you're wanting to learn a little bit more about time management how you can improve that then you might want to start with this episode here where I talk about why time management is a lot of cases a little bit overrated”