Coaching practices for Life Vision Planning

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

• I’ve looked back at the arc of my life and now I want to extend it forward
• I’ve got these very different visions of my life on paper and I’m staring at them wondering what’s actually me underneath all of them
• I have this stirring picture of the life I want but no idea how to turn it into anything I can actually do
• My days get eaten by what’s urgent and I never zoom out to ask who I actually want to have been
• I’ve quietly decided there’s only one acceptable version of my life and I’m white-knuckling toward it

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. The eulogy exercise: working backward from the life you want
   Write a brief eulogy for yourself that describes who you were and how you lived — then work backward to what that requires today.
   Values-Based Action (ACT), Made Practical
5. Draft three genuinely different five-year plans
   Sketch three distinct five-year lives — not variations on the same theme, but genuinely different directions.
   Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
6. 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
7. Run prototyping conversations before committing to a plan
   Talk to people already living your Plan B or C before you decide whether to pursue it.
   Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
8. Write vivid imagined future scenes
   Extend your life story into the future with specific, felt scenes — not just goals.
   Narrative Identity, Made Practical
9. Rate each plan on confidence, interest, and coherence
   Score each plan on whether you find it engaging, whether you could execute it, and whether it fits who you are.
   Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
10. Apply the deathbed test to current decisions
    When facing a trade-off, ask which option the future you will wish you had chosen.
    The Bucket List Method

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