CREATIVE ADVENTURES — 78
Imagine You Will Be Dead In 10 Years
In this exercise, you will imagine that you have just 10 years left to live. You will be dead after 3652.4 days. What would you do with your life? Please respond to the following questions:
- How would you spend these 10 years? Create a 10-year plan. How will you make sure that your decade will be meaningful, exciting, creative, and productive?
- How would you make the most of your remaining time in this world? How would you collect experiences of awe, flow, love, curiosity, connection, and creativity?
- Would you continue to live the life that you currently have? Or would you make radical changes? How would you change your life? What are the top changes you would like to implement?
- What are the things that you would stop doing? Things that waste your energy or time? Things you do not like? What are the things that you say ‘No’ to? Make your list.
- What are the activities you would like to try out and start doing? What do you really enjoy doing in your life and how can you do more of these? Which countries would you like to travel to? What would you like to learn, create, or write about? Create a bucket list of things to do. Think of at least 50 activities.
- What would you like to create in the next ten years? What type of creative and entrepreneurial projects would you like to bring to the world? Make a list of all the exciting and fresh things you would like to create.
- Think about the contribution you would like to make in the next ten years. What difference will you make? How would you summarize your legacy? What would people remember you for? What makes you most proud? What will be the greatest accomplishments of your next 10 years?
- Write an inspirational letter to yourself on how you would like to spend your next years. What are your top values and guiding principles?
- Your real death occurs when your name is spoken for the last time by someone. Write a story about how people will remember you after you die.