Future Self Journaling: How to Start, Plus 30 Prompts
Future self journaling is five minutes a day writing toward who you're becoming and one small action for today. A simple daily format and 30 prompts to start.
Future Self
Letters to your future self, future-self journaling and visualization.
How to Write a Letter to Your Future Self covers when to open it (in one, five or ten years), 25 prompts, a fill-in template and an example letter. In one study, students who wrote to their future self and then wrote back as that future self felt more connected to it, and showed bigger gains in career planning than students who only wrote the first letter. The free letter tool lets you write it, print it and set a calendar reminder to open it.
Future Self Journaling turns the same idea into five minutes a day: one sentence about who you're becoming, one small action and an if-then plan for when you'll do it, with 30 prompts. The future self visualization script has you rehearse the steps and the hard moment as well as the finish line, because in a classic study, mentally rehearsing the process of studying improved students' studying and grades.
Guides
Future Self Visualization Script (Read It or Record It)
A free five-minute future self visualization script to read slowly or record in your own voice, plus a two-minute version for one moment you're preparing for.
How to Write a Letter to Your Future Self (Prompts + Template)
Write a letter to your future self in about 20 minutes: when to open it, 25 prompts, a fill-in template, a short example and how to make sure you get it back.