Keep your tomorrow in sight
While you’re moving toward your tomorrow, always keep it in sight. Dreams for the future fuel our happiness and well-being. They give purpose to our daily routines. They can stimulate our desire to grow and achieve. Passively, we tend to use past experiences to create our future, so this isn’t an easy concept to master, but actively exploring and encouraging what your tomorrow looks like can help you create meaningful habits and make smart choices.
Try the following exercise to make sure your long-term goals are firmly based on what is truly important to you. (Tough, meaningful goals are more rewarding than the easy, shallow ones.)
Do your priorities and goals match up?
Write down your top five priorities in life. These could include family, education, travel, health, etc. Consider where you want these top priorities to be and how you want them to look over the course of the following, allowing these goals to build on themselves.
3 years from now
Priority 1 ________________________________________________
Priority 2 ________________________________________________
Priority 3 ________________________________________________
Priority 4 ________________________________________________
Priority 5 ________________________________________________
Long-term
Priority 1 ________________________________________________
Priority 2 ________________________________________________
Priority 3 ________________________________________________
Priority 4 ________________________________________________
Priority 5 ________________________________________________
We have released the Veros Partners Tomorrow book, a workbook-style publication designed for our clients to give life to their hopes and dreams with exercises like the one above. It walks clients through a series of questions and insights, helping them clarify what their “Tomorrow” is.
If you would like to hear more about our Tomorrow book, request a copy of your own, or more about how we help clients keep their future goals in sight, contact us.