Coaching practices for When I Try to Picture My Future it Stays Abstract and Far Away a Vague Things Will Be Fine Someday and Because I Can't Actually Feel the Life I Want it Has No Pull on What I Do Today

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• When I try to picture my future it stays abstract and far away
• When I try to picture things going well, I get nothing
• I’ve got goals on a list but the future feels flat and far away, nothing I can actually feel pulling me
• I keep choosing the easy thing now over the thing my future self would thank me for
• The thing I’m supposedly working toward is this vague blur

Practices that may help

1. Write a best-possible-life narrative
   Write a detailed story of your life in 10 years if everything went as well as it possibly could.
   The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self
2. The best-possible-self exercise
   Regularly write a vivid picture of your life going as well as it realistically could.
   Optimism Training: Building Realistic, Flexible Optimism
3. Write vivid imagined future scenes
   Extend your life story into the future with specific, felt scenes — not just goals.
   Narrative Identity, Made Practical
4. Build a vivid, concrete future orientation
   Make the future feel real and close by describing it in sensory, specific detail.
   Time Perspective Therapy
5. Make the future reward vivid and concrete
   Render the distant payoff specific and emotional so it carries more weight today.
   Reward Substitution
6. Vividly visualize your future self in concrete detail
   The more specific and sensory your image of your future self, the less you discount their wellbeing.
   Future Self Continuity, Made Practical
7. Elaborate your hoped-for possible self
   Build a detailed, sensory-rich mental picture of a concrete future version of yourself — not an abstract goal, but a person.
   Possible Selves, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Identify the other things that will also be true of your future life
   Focalism makes future events seem bigger than they are by ignoring all the other things that will still be present.
   Affect Forecasting: Why You Mispredicted How You’d Feel
10. Dreamline — cost your ideal life
    Calculate the monthly cost of the life you actually want, not an abstract rich fantasy.
    Lifestyle Design, Made Practical

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