Also: your children.
Write a Letter to Your Future Self
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#32Career move: make your future resume. It helps focus intent.
I've done this many times and can confirm it's been helpful
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#33I love this idea. My high school our english program had us write letters to ourself 10 years in the future. Such a joyous surprise when that teacher actually sent the letters 10 years later.
I wonder though - How is this different than journaling? Doesn't a written record from the past you can refer back to in the future accomplish the same goal?
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#34Have been using futureme for a few years now. Getting a letter every January 1st is a nice way to understand my headspace from the previous year.
This coupled with my daily journal entries offers an interesting reflective process around the holiday season :)
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#35I love this idea. My high school our english program had us write letters to ourself 10 years in the future. Such a joyous surprise when that teacher actually sent the letters 10 years later. I wonder though - How is this different than journaling? Doesn't a written record from the past you can refer back to in the future accomplish the same goal?
I would say that with journaling you're not guaranteed to look back at specific notes, you need somehow to force yourself to do so and have a way of easily finding that specific note at a specific point in the future. Sending a letter fixes this issue.
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#36Starting at 16 years old I wrote a letter every birthday to my 30 year old self with ideas of who I want to become and how I ought to judge my success. I hoped when I turn 30 to open all of them up and realize how much I accomplished would be satisfying. Through the project, I actually discovered two things. First, I estimated a rate of progress that exceeds the real possible magnitude of accomplishment by about two…
Can you post these letters online? This fascinates me!
Not sure about his, but many letters are public and are available at https://www.futureme.org/letters/public
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#37"Your Future Self and Everyone With Access to the futureme.org Database" At least that's why I've never used this service and never will, even though I think it would be worthwhile.
I would write a letter in a text file, password encrypt it in a zip file, upload zip to Google drive, put a reminder in Google calendar for the date i want to open, with link & password.
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#38As a kid, using this site or some other, I wrote an email to myself and received it some 15 years later. That was awkward. I don't really know that guy.
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#39I did this once and the resulting message was incredibly depressing so I don't think I would do it again. For me there is no value or point in engaging in such actions. It's probably only worth it if you have a positive outlook on life.
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#40I've done a similar thing using calendar events in the future.
It's easy.
Just open up your calendar app to a date like 5 years from now and type away.
This derisks the possibility that the "future you service" goes under, taking your cherished letters with it.