Coaching practices for Goal Setting Life Story
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I have this stirring picture of the life I want but no idea how to turn it into anything I can actually do
- I set a clear direction for my life a while back, but I’ve changed since then and the old plan has started to feel like an obligation I’m failing rather than something I still want
- There’s a story I tell about my past
- I’ve looked back at the arc of my life and now I want to extend it forward
- I’ve got goals on a list but the future feels flat and far away, nothing I can actually feel pulling me
Practices that may help
- Translate the narrative into domain-specific goals
Break the future-life story into one concrete goal per life domain.
The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self - Periodic life-crafting refresh
Revisit and revise your best-possible-life narrative every 6–12 months as your context changes.
The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self - Revise your life narrative when it limits you
Identify and reauthor the story you tell about your past that constrains what you believe is possible.
The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self - The future life line
Extend your timeline forward and sketch the peaks and turning points you want to create — then work backward to today.
The Life Line Exercise - Write vivid imagined future scenes
Extend your life story into the future with specific, felt scenes — not just goals.
Narrative Identity, Made Practical - Set lifestyle anti-goals to protect daily experience, not just outcomes
The quality of your daily experience matters — define the daily conditions you refuse to accept, not just the outcomes.
Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept - Excavate core values before writing goals
Identify what you most fundamentally care about before deciding what you want — or goals will be other people’s.
The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self - Identifying the turning points that shaped you
Single out the three to five moments where your trajectory genuinely changed — and examine what you made of them.
The Life Line Exercise - Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind
Define what success looks like before you act, guided by a personal mission.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Made Practical - The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self
The life crafting intervention, developed by Schippers and Ziegler, is a structured writing exercise in which participants vividly reflect on their core values, write a narrative of their ideal future life, and translate that into concrete goals. A randomized controlled trial found significantly improved self-concordant goal motivation and work engagement at follow-up, making it one of the better-tested purpose interventions available.
Related concerns
- How To Set Life Direction
Revisit and revise your best-possible-life narrative every 6–12 months as your context changes.
Periodic life-crafting refresh
- Life Crafting Goals
Break the future-life story into one concrete goal per life domain.
Translate the narrative into domain-specific goals
- Schippers Ziegler Life Crafting
The life crafting intervention, developed by Schippers and Ziegler, is a structured writing exercise in which participants vividly reflect on their core values, write a narrative of their ideal future life, and translate that into concrete goals. A randomized controlled trial found significantly improved self-concordant goal motivation and work engagement at follow-up, making it one of the better-tested purpose interventions available.
- The Life Crafting Intervention Scripting Your Future Self After A Loss
The life crafting intervention, developed by Schippers and Ziegler, is a structured writing exercise in which participants vividly reflect on their core values, write a narrative of their ideal future life, and translate that into concrete goals. A randomized controlled trial found significantly improved self-concordant goal motivation and work engagement at follow-up, making it one of the better-tested purpose interventions available.
- The Life Crafting Intervention Scripting Your Future Self After A Setback
The life crafting intervention, developed by Schippers and Ziegler, is a structured writing exercise in which participants vividly reflect on their core values, write a narrative of their ideal future life, and translate that into concrete goals. A randomized controlled trial found significantly improved self-concordant goal motivation and work engagement at follow-up, making it one of the better-tested purpose interventions available.
- The Life Crafting Intervention Scripting Your Future Self As A Parent
The life crafting intervention, developed by Schippers and Ziegler, is a structured writing exercise in which participants vividly reflect on their core values, write a narrative of their ideal future life, and translate that into concrete goals. A randomized controlled trial found significantly improved self-concordant goal motivation and work engagement at follow-up, making it one of the better-tested purpose interventions available.
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