A set of questions to guide you through visioning your future and the steps that will take you there. Adapted from http://www.presencing.com/tools/ujournaling.shtml

1. A Journey to Your Future
Adapted from
C. Otto Scharmer, Theory U: Chapter 21
www.theoryu.com, www.presencing.com

2. For a journey of discovery to yourself and your future,
reserve about an hour of time in a quiet place.
You’ll need a pen and plenty of paper.
The exercise will connect self-reflection to concrete action
steps, which will help you create your desired future. Write
down everything that comes to mind in answer to each
question, then move on to the next, maintaining flow.
Here we go.

3. What are the 3 or 4 most important challenges
or tasks that your life currently presents?

4. Write down 3-4 important accomplishments
you have achieved or competencies you have
developed in your life.

5. What 3 or 4 important aspirations, areas of
interest, or undeveloped talents would you
like to place more focus on?

6. What frustrates you the most at the moment?

7. What are your most vital sources of energy?
What do you love?

8. Over the past couple of days and weeks, what new
aspects of yourself have you noticed?

9. What is holding you back? Describe 2 or 3 recent
situations in which fear, cynicism or judgment
prevented you from exploring the situation you
were in more deeply.

10. Imagine three people from your community
looking at your life. What are their highest
hopes in regard to your future journey?

11. Imagine watching yourself from high above. What
are you doing? What are you trying to do in this
stage of your professional and personal life?

12. Imagine watching your community, friends and
colleagues from high above. What are you
collectively trying to do?

13. Imagine looking back from the very last
moments of your life. What would you want to
be remembered for by the people who live on
after you?

14. From that future place, look back at your
current self. What advice would you give?

15. Now return to the present and crystallize what it
is that you want to create: your vision and
intention for the next 3-5 years. Describe the
core elements as concretely as possible.

16. What would you have to let go of in order to
bring your vision into reality?

17. What in your current life or context provides the
seeds for the future that you want to create?
Where do you already see your future beginning?

18. Over the next three months, if you were to prototype
the future, what would that prototype look like?

19. Who can help you make your highest future
possibilities a reality? Who might be your core
helpers and partners?

20. If you were to take on the project of bringing your
intention into reality, what practical first steps
would you take over the next 3 to 4 days?