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Goal Setting in Reverse—Future Self Exercise - Look Back from Success: Map Your Milestones.  (back)
 
Description:
Join Rich Gassen from CSN to explore your future self! We’ll connect on Zoom and magically travel 3-5 years into the future. We’ll then go through three small group exercises, discussing the audacious thing you’ve achieved in the past few years and the steps or path that got you there.

The three prompts:
1. Share your original goal(s) and how you feel now that you've accomplished them.
2. What was the hardest thing you overcame to meet your goal(s), and how did you do it?
3. What are your happiest clients or peers saying about the work you've done for them or the positive change you’re making since achieving the goal(s)?

Come prepared to have a future self in mind to role-play and engage with the group! Note: this can be a completely fictitious scenario, or it can be a real goal of yours that you haven’t actually accomplished yet; your choice! Examples to consider: A promotion or new role / becoming an entrepreneur / buying a vacation home / starting a side hustle / retiring comfortably / _______________?
Contact Info:
Rich Gassen (rich.gassen@wisc.edu)
 
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