This exercise will help you start to organise your thoughts. Take all the time you need, unlike real life; there is no deadline:
You will have prepared a CV; you may well have one that needs a little updating, but it’s all about your past.
This CV is different, it is about your future.
Answer the following questions, as truthfully and as completely as you can.
What is unique about you?
What do other people value about you?
What skills or tasks do you perform so effortlessly that you do not need to think about them?
What do you enjoy doing most outside of work?
What is it about your current job that you would sacrifice last?
What themes can you see running through your life?
What would your legacy be?
Now, write two postcards. They are both from your future. The first is a postcard from your perfect future. Describe what you are doing, where you are and how you are feeling.
Next write the postcard from your future as it will be if you continue as you are, describe what you are doing, where you are and what you are feeling.
Is there a difference?
