Coaching practices for Life Trajectory Not Snapshot

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• On any given day my read on how my life is going swings wildly with my mood, and I can’t tell whether things are actually getting better or worse over time or I’m just reacting to today
• I’ve looked back at the arc of my life and now I want to extend it forward
• My whole life feels like a jumble of memories I’ve never laid out in one place
• There are a handful of moments where my whole life pivoted, and I’ve quietly decided what each one means
• My life feels like a flat list of events with no shape, and I want to find the two or three moments that genuinely redirected everything

Practices that may help

1. Track your wheel scores over time to see trajectory, not just snapshots
   A single wheel is a photograph; repeated wheels are a film — trajectory matters more than today’s score.
   The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
2. 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
3. Draw the life line
   Draw a horizontal timeline and mark the key high points, low points, and turning points of your life.
   The Life Line Exercise
4. 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
5. Map your turning points and what they changed
   Identify the two to four moments that most fundamentally redirected the arc of your life.
   Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy
6. Map your life in chapters
   Divide your life into named chapters to see the arc you’ve been living.
   Narrative Identity, Made Practical
7. Write a brief narrative of your season to make it coherent
   People who can tell a coherent story about their life stage navigate it more effectively than those who cannot.
   Seasons of Life
8. Construct a lifeline
   Lay out your entire life chronologically using symbolic markers — stones for traumatic events, flowers for positive ones.
   Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story
9. Build a coherent narrative across your three plans
   Find the values and themes that appear across all three plans — they are your non-negotiables.
   Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
10. Write vivid imagined future scenes
    Extend your life story into the future with specific, felt scenes — not just goals.
    Narrative Identity, Made Practical

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