Have you heard the term Future Pacing?

Well 'Future Pacing" is a type of mental visualisation.

The suggestion is that setting a future target or destination, and anchoring or connecting changes and associating resources to this future situation, brings us clarity by helping us focus on the target ahead and then to think backwards from our end goal.

It is used a great deal in coaching and NLP, in fact I've created an entire course based around this theme but I simply call it 'Think Backwards' (to fast forwards your life)!

So let’s future pace what you need to do to reach that illusive goal ...

Well to start with I recommend proceeding with caution and that's because, if we set ourselves hard and fast goals, rather than looking to simply keep ourselves focussed on our target, we can set ourselves up to fail. 

So why not ask yourself, 'what's the bigger picture?'

If you can't think of what it is that you do want, then begin by noting the things that you absolutely...