Time Tips from Time Management Expert Peter Turla

SET PRIORITIES BY LOOKING BACK FROM THE FUTURE

by Peter "The Time Man" Turla
www.TimeMan.com

Use "backcasting" as a way to gain insight into what your top priorities should be today. Think of some important aspect of your future where you'd like to gain a better sense of direction. Rather than forecasting from today's trends, picture what your ideal situation would look like if you could have it any way that you wanted. Now pretend you're in that ideal situation. Where are you, what is going on, what are you doing?
 
Look back to the present from that point of view and ask, "What significant steps would have to have happened to get from there to where I am now in my ideal future?"

When you write those steps down you'll have your action plan to building a successful future for yourself.

Which items will have been the most significant for you to have accomplished to achieve your ideal week, month, year, and life?

“Backcasting” one week from now? ........................................................
“Backcasting” one month from now? ........................................................
“Backcasting” one year from now? ..........................................................
“Backcasting” five years from now? ........................................................
“Backcasting” from near the end of your life? ...........................................

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then what you would have to do." - Epictetus

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