5 Techniques to Clarify Your Dreams and Goals

The post offers five exercises to make dreams and goals more specific. It begins from the idea that you may not yet know the direction of your dreams, then asks you to examine what you want others to say about you, what defines you now, what your best day looks like, what an ideal life would contain, and what advice your inner voice gives.

It also says that once these exercises make your goals clearer, the next step is to start changing your life, remove obstacles, and pursue those goals persistently. It ends by pointing to GoalsOnTrack’s vision board tool as a way to visualize goals online and get a clearer sense of what accomplishment looks like.

Reading notes

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• The Huck and Tom technique compares what you want people to say at your funeral with what you think they would actually say.
• The Desert Island Everything exercise reduces a long list of defining things about your life to the 10 that matter most.
• The Perfect Day exercise asks who you spend time with, what you do, and what enables that day to happen.
• The Awesome List asks for a no-holds-barred description of what a completely awesome life would look like, then checks what is reachable now.
• The Wise Advisor exercise uses relaxation and a trance-like state to ask, “What is my best advice to myself?”
• The post says visualization can help people reach goals faster, and mentions GoalsOnTrack’s vision board tool for that purpose.