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1. Introduction: I love seeing people come alive. I absolutely love it when
somebody says to me, Rich, I'm going to quit my job and go do something
that I absolutely love, or I'm going to quit my job and figure out
what I want to do. If I can unlock something in somebody to help
them either realize what their dream thing
is or to give them steps to getting there
I'm super happy, that's what I wake
up in the morning knowing that I have to do. Hey everyone, my name is Rich Armstrong
from TapTapKaboom. I used to be a
product designer and I'm transitioning into a
creative entrepreneur, which is an exciting
title to have, and it's really part of what this whole session is
going to be about. Envisioning your future and then making steps
towards getting there. To take this session, you're going to need
a sharpie or a pen, you may need a highlighter. You could also do
with some posters, but if you're like,
what the heck, all of those things
seem too much, all you need is a pen and
some paper, that's it. By the end of this class, I hope that you have a
better understanding of who you are and who you want to
become in five-years-time. Not only that but a clear
set of steps to take in order to become that person. The reason why this is on Zoom, and maybe it's a
little bit fuzzy or whatever it is
because it was live, it was recorded with the
Skillshare community with a bunch of
life participants. We had questions,
we had answers. I messed up a bunch of times, but that's great, I love live and hope
you also love live too.
2. Initial Brainstorm: My name is Tiffany Chow. I work on Skillshare's
Community Team. I am going to be
today's post for our wonderful live class with
top teacher Rich Armstrong. Without further ado,
let's jump into it. Rich, maybe tell us a
little bit more about what we can expect from
today's live class. What are you going
to walk us through? What do you hope they
walk away with other than that feeling of coming
to live as well? I'm going to take you through two exercises which
both have two parts. The first part is
visualizing your future, which sounds like
magical and mystical. You're, though we only have
like half an hour or so and I've actually got
these timers here. Time is which are great. I'm going to set it for
an hour or 55 minutes. Because I can talk a lot. I'm going to do that quickly so I know how much time we have. But visualizing your future in half an hour or 15
minutes is like, how do we do that? I'm going to try walk you
through that fairly quickly. A lot of it will be instinctual. You'll write some
things down and like a mind-map format on a list. Then you might have to ponder
that after the session. Then after that, I'm going to walk you
through how do you actually get there from
where you are now. We're going to draw journey, write down a bunch of
things on a piece of paper, and then go, where
does this fit in? How do I get to that
place in five-years-time? I'm hoping by the end of the session the
attendees would be like, this is what I think I
want to with my life. In five-years time this is
what I want it to look like. I have some concrete
steps to get there. Because I think a lot of
the time we see people who have amazing lives or career
doing amazing things. We either fit into two camps or we fluctuate between them. We either go, yes, I
don't want to do that. We just tried to everything
all at the same time. Then after a year, we just there was too
much, I'm burnt out. Or we do achieve some
of those things, and then we're, the moment
has passed, now what? Or we sit on the couch, and we do nothing and
we just wish we long to be one of those
people that we see on Instagram or see on TV, or even our friends who are living in these amazing lives. I want to be like that. Concrete steps at the end take you towards a
place that you're, yes, this is what I love doing every
single day of my life. Not just, yes, that was one great moment. I'm assuming people are gathering
all of their materials, whatever they prefer to
map and journey with. I think we're ready. Why don't we go
ahead and dive in? I've got a piece of paper here. I'm going to ask
you to come up with a bunch of title options. Why a title and not a goal? A title is more of
an identity thing. In five years' time, what do you want
your title to be? Who are you in five years' time? I don't want to
share your goals. I don't want to share about yes, I wanted to have written a book, I wanted to have
written a big thing. Nothing like that. Who do you want to be? Do you want to be a writer? Do you want to be an
illustrator, a UX designer? What about a UI designer
or a public speaker? Something like that. In the middle, just write something
like title options. Then I'm going to give
you five minutes to come up with a bunch
of title options. I'm going to provide you with
some prompts to say like, what do you mean title options? I don't understand this. I've got another timer here. I'm going to set this
for five minutes. Then I'm going to start
doing this with you. Then here are some prompts that you can have
a look at as well. What do you feel you must do? Something like this would be, I want to save the planet. Or I love dueling. I just have to do to
all the time on walls, on pillows, on
clothing, whatever. What do you dream of doing? This could be, I
would love to have my own studio or I would love to travel through South America. That is what I dream up doing. It's currently impossible
for you to do. What do you love doing? If I gave you a day or a
week and just say, do whatever you want,
what would you do? For me, this is doodling. This is illustrating. I love just spending time on my couch or in the
studio creating things. Then what are you good at doing? This is something
that people say, you're really good at this. Maybe you're like,
I don't think so. Or people pay you to do this. For me, this is
product designer, it's UX designers, making
websites and apps. Then what are you
jealous of others doing? I don't mean I'm jealous of that guy because
he's an astronaut, or I'm jealous of that person because they get to
explore the world. It's more, I could do that. I'm capable of doing that,
but I'm not doing that. I'm jealous of that person who's doing that
particular thing. From here, just create a
couple of different options. I'm going to keep quiet. You guys carry on
and do this with me. If you have any questions, just pop them into the chat
and Tiffany can ask them. Title options. What are the possible
five-year title options that you have for yourself? There is actually one question. It's a little bit unrelated
to the exercise at hand. But Ann says she
loves your timer. Where did you find it? These timers are
called Time Timers. They're amazing because
they just do one thing instead of a smartphone
which does a million things. You just type Time
Timer into Google. Really cool. Awesome. Thank you. I think there are some folks who I think we can
all relate to this, but just struggling with even knowing a title they would
want to be in the future. These question prompts
are really helpful. Have you experienced that
before yourself, Rich? I've always had a billion
things that I want to be. Here, I could write down architect if I manage
to spell it properly. Or I could write down author or even something like
lawyer or builder. There's a million
different things. I really would love
to be a 3D designer, a movie maker, or
a scriptwriter. I don't think I've
ever had a problem with what I want to become. I've had too many options. I love learning. But I think if you're like, I don't really
know what that is, perhaps come up with
some ideas that you see other people being or doing. If you're on Instagram, what do you gravitate towards? Do you follow a bunch
of ceramicist people who work with their
hands, make pottery? Do love people who
work with fashion. Do you love houses and the
architecture inside of it? What is on your feet? What do you constantly and continually come back
to time and time again? Does that answer the question? I think so. I think a lot of people very much relate to
wanting to do so much. Perhaps the takeaway here
is don't limit yourself. You don't need to
just have one title that you know for
sure you want to be, write them all down. Then we'll go from there. Awesome. We don't have very long at the moment let that exercise. But perhaps there's one
or two that you're, that thing really
resonates with me. After this class,
after this session, perhaps you can
spend some more time delving into these
prompts and really trying to figure out what
possibly you would like to be. For me, an architect, I would love to be an architect, but man, trying to get it
is a long period of time. Whereas a work shopper
for me it's yes, that sounds exactly
of my street. I don't have to study too long, I don't have to follow
a bunch of rules. I can do my own research
on my own time. That looks good. I get to help people. What I'm not doing in this
session is delving into your why and why you want to
become one of these things. I think that's really
important to keep in mind. Each one of these things
you could explore, which we'll do in the next step. Perhaps after this session, explore each one and try
each one of these things on and visualize what it
may look in the future.
3. Envision Your Life in Five Years: My timer has beeped at me, I'm going to go into the
next part of the exercise, and I'm going to select
the title, this one here, workshopper, to work with and I want you to
do the same thing. Select a title that resonates
with you or you're like, that could be really
interesting to work with, and then put it in the middle of your page on the next page. I'm going to set my timer again. At this point in time, you've got something in
the middle of your page. Maybe I should do mine
slightly to the right so I can put some
more prompts on. Mine would be workshopper, I want you guys to do the same. Then around this, I
really want you to visualize not the most epic
day in five year time, but your average day. What does mundane
life look like? What is happening in your life? You can close your
eyes if you want, you can put some music
on, or you can write, you can draw, you can
list, you can mind-map, and really try get a
sense of the details. What's happening
in the background? What has happened? What are you looking forward to? The reason I'm going for a
mundane day in your life is that 99 percent of life
happens on mundane days. All the highlights,
all the achievements, all the success, those are
like one percent of your life. If you spend and you
hate every moment of it, in between each success point or each achievement,
it's not much of a life, so I want you to
focus on the average, the mundane parts of your life. I've got a couple
of prompts here. The good thing to just be like, how old are you in
five year time? Let's put some
realities in there. Do you have kids? How old are your kids? How many kids you're
going to have? Then, what work are you doing? Maybe it's going
to be a bit tricky for me to do this as well, but here are some
prompts on the left. What projects have you completed
in the last six months? What stuff have you done? Perhaps for me, projects that
I've completed is creating a website full of prompts
for workshopping. What exciting projects are
you currently working on? That could be like, this
client, this customer, this company has just approached
me and they're saying, I would really like you to
run a workshop at Google, at Booking.com, at Facebook, or at this new sustainable
fashion company. That for me it could
be really cool. Sustainable fashion company has approached me. What's on your websites? I really like doing
this as an exercise because it's a future thing, so you don't have to have
done all of these things, but it's like this
is what I'd like to see on my websites. Those are some quick
prompts for now, there are some more which
are on this piece of paper. Who's trying to work with you? Who's emailing you? Who's calling you? You don't have to
fill in all of these, but just to prompt some ideas. This is really important. If you're going to
be a freelancer, if that's what your thing
is in five year time, who's trying to get
you to work for them? Who's emailing you? If you're going to be a writer, if you're going to be
a screenplay writer or a non-fiction book writer, or a fiction book writer, or an illustrator,
who's calling you? For me, I would be like, who is wanting to work with me? Perhaps here it
could be schools, it could be Google, it could be, let's
say Booking.com because they are an
Amsterdam company. Then who are you working with? This is really important. It's not just about the
work that you're doing, but who are you with? For me, I would have a team which I currently don't
have at the moment. I would love to be
doing the creative side and have the admin, the video stuff, the graphic design be done
by people who are like, yes, I want to be a graphic
designer or a video editor. Where do you work? For a lot of people they are, I don't know where I work. But is it a studio? Is it an office? Is it at home? For me, at the moment, I'm at a studio, so I would like a
studio in Amsterdam. At the moment, I'm in a studio outside of Amsterdam because
that's where I live, but, that could be really cool, and perhaps there
would be lots of plants and natural lights. What does your studio look like? What does this space look like? How do you get to work? For me, I would love
to carry on cycling to work instead of having
to drive or take a train, but what does this
look like for you? As you start to fill
in these details, you're like, you're painting a picture of what that
looks like for you. You're creating an identity, you're creating a future
version of yourself. You could even ask
questions like, what time do you start? I've got a whole
bunch more of these. I'm just going to put on
the screen quickly so that anyone taking this class in the future can have a look at these for future prompts. I may just prompt a couple of ideas in your mind
at the moment, but you're painting this picture so that you can work towards it. It's not just like, I'm just going to
see what happens or I'm going to wish for
something to happen, you're painting a picture
so you can work towards it. You're intentionally going
for something rather than unintentionally
going for something. When we unintentionally go for something which
is impossible, when there's no
intention, your brain, your life just happens on
automatic, things just happen. Sometimes you go
after all things, and other times you just do absolutely nothing and you wish.
4. Creating Your Journey Map: From here, we're going to
go into our next exercise, which is creating a
journey map of where we are now to where we want
to be in five years time. In five years time I want to be this version
of a workshopper. Let's remove all the paper
and on a new page. [NOISE] Quick question for
you Rich, actually. First of all,
you're doing great. You're talking and mapping
beautifully, if you ask me. But there was a question, which is maybe going
back a little bit, but could you just explain a little bit what you
mean by workshopper? A workshopper is like
what I'm doing now. But I would have a
whiteboard and I'd be taking either an
individual or a team through decision-making
process or figuring out what makes them come alive
or planning their future. I'm taking a bunch of
information that people give me and I'm working with that
to help them make decisions, help bring clarity into their organization or
into their personal life. Then at the end of the
workshop they're like, yes, that's what we should do or
that's what I should do. This is like a workshop. I would be a facilitator
running a workshop. But the one in my five-year future self version is doing this at a
much larger scale, whose whole identity revolves around this rather
than being like, this is something new, this
is something I could try. I've really stumbled into
that and seeing that people actually do this really well
and I'm like, that's me. That's what I want to do. That's what makes me come alive. I've given it a
title at the moment, but before that title, that's what I wanted to do. It's really cool when you find a title that matches
what you want to do. Absolutely. I think something really powerful I
heard him that too is maybe you have to make up your own
title for the thing that you want to be sometimes. That's okay too, because it
probably does exist as a job, like you said. Awesome. Cool. If you have a fairly small visualization
that you created, you can do this
on the same page. But what we're going to
do now is we're going to create or draw where
you currently are. What I like to do here
currently is a triangle. I like drawing triangle people
instead of stick figures, they're a little bit
more expressive. I'm happy. My shock is running out. Let's
try another one. I'm happy and I've got some legs and some
hands, which is great. I'm going to set my
timer to five minutes. But in the future, I am beyond happy, I'm super pumped because this is my life and it's really
rocking and awesome. Around here you
could draw a couple of the things that
you visualized. Perhaps for me, I
would draw a couple of other people because I now have a team and I would draw a whiteboard because that's
what workshoppers do. Then perhaps I would put
up a couple of buildings because I'm going
to be workshopping in big corporations or whatever. Then from here, I
want you to draw a line where you are to
your five-year title. I want you to draw a
winding and wiggly line rather than a straight one. Because straight ones never
happen and if they do, it's probably quite boring. Something like that. The reason why we do this
is so that we can start to visualize what our
life looks like. We don't have to do
everything right now and we have to
acknowledge that man, life is a journey. It's not going to
be straightforward. I often used to get really jealous of the accountant
type people who said, I've got a 10-year plan. This is what I'm
doing. I'm going to start a business here. We're going to
grow to 10 people. I'm going to sell my business, I'm going to buy a house and
I'm going to move to the UK. I'm like, I don't even know
what I'm doing tomorrow. How do you expect me to
make a 10-year plan? But what this is doing is
it's a visualization of where you want to be in the future and somewhere in this
grand messy journey, you're going to try and
do a bunch of things. But what are we going
to do in this journey? What I'd like you to do now on a separate piece of paper or
on the same piece of paper, is start to write down
things that you want to do. Things that happen
in this journey. They could be projects, they could be tasks, they could be achievements, they could be things that you need to do first before
you can get there. I have some prompts for this as well and I'm going to
write them down on this piece of paper just
so that it makes it easy rather than having
too many pieces of paper. Then once we've written
down everything, then we can start to put some
of them onto our journey. Here are the prompts and you can start to write them down on the left or on a
separate piece of paper. A lot of people
call this a brain dump and it's super useful, just to get everything out of your mind onto paper
so that you can see what your brain's
trying to get through and understand
and decipher. Once you've got it all out, it gives your brain this amazing
ability just to be free, uncluttered, and the ability
to work on the next step, rather than trying
to think about and plan for four or five
years down the line. What tasks do you need to do? For me it's create a
website with prompts. I need to actually
say to people, hey, I'm a workshopper. What projects do you need to do? That's a really interesting
one for me because I'm doing live Zoom workshops. But I would love to stand
up in front of a group of people live in a building
and do a workshop with them. I would like to say live
workshop in-person, because live means
different things nowadays. What do you need to learn? This is a big thing
for a lot of us and sometimes it's really
overwhelming because we want to be somebody
and we're like, I don't actually know
what I need to learn. Sometimes what you need to do is figure out what
you need to learn. You need to learn what
you need to learn. For me I need to learn
how to sell workshops. I also would like
to spend more time around people in
the business world, chatting to them,
speaking to them, seeing what it's like
to be in a team because I'm a lone-wolf
kind of a person. I work with my wife, but I do most of the
creating and so trying to figure out how to work in a team that's a little
bit more complicated. Let's say Speak and Meet were business people. This is encroaching on
my journey over here. Then who can I learn
from? That's great. I would like to find
other workshoppers. Who is my audience?
That's really good. You don't have to come
up with one or two, you could have a
bunch of options and then figure it out after that. So my audience could be
individuals and companies. What can I attend and where? So when I go to Amsterdam, there are so many meetups
here about all topics. So I would like
to find meet-ups, or in this case, Zoom sessions around
being a workshopper. I would like to start hanging out with other workshoppers. Where are these
things happening? Online at the moment, but perhaps in the future, it could be in Amsterdam at
some really cool offices. When I go to cool
offices, I can be like, "Hey, would you like a workshop? How can I help you?" Can
start chatting to people. And then a couple of
more prompts here. Who's on this journey with me? So a lot of the time, it's really lonely when
you're just by yourself. If you want to be an illustrator
or if you want to be a workshopper or anything. If you want to be
an entrepreneur and all your friends are employees, it's a little bit weird
chatting to them to be like, "Hey, what do you think about this idea
for my business?" And they're like, "I don't
know, do what you want. I have a steady paycheck." And you're like, "Ah. They don't understand
it, they didn't get it." So who's on this
journey with you? Start trying to figure
out who those people are. And then what don't I know? This again is a
little bit tricky. So figure out what
you don't know. Ask the people who are
on the journey with you. Ask the people who
you can learn from. What do I want to figure out? For me, it's like how do I
get into these companies? I'll go figure out how to do a proposal and perhaps I can also figure out how
to do some marketing. Let's go figure out how to do marketing. These are a bunch of
prompts to help you figure out what you should
be putting on your journey. Now, at this stage, you've got perhaps
a whole bunch of things that you want to
know that you need to do. Now start adding them
to your journey. These are just points
on your journey, they're momentary highest, they're momentary,
"I've done this, I've completed this project." Just like this point is a
moment in your journey, it's a five-year moment, your journey
continues after this. Websites with prompts. Let's maybe put that over here. It's a fairly
important thing to do. This find other workshoppers, I think for me is
pretty important. Figure out how to do
marketing and figure out how to do a proposal, I think, yes, that might be
pretty important too, so I'm going to
put that in there. Live in-person workshop. Let's put that over here. Hopefully, COVID finishes,
wraps up over there. How to sell workshops? I need to figure that out
so that goes into there. Speak and meet with
business people, I think for me this is really important so I'm going
to put that over there. You can start adding in
your items here and there. A lot of these for me or at the beginning but perhaps
somewhere over here, I would be like, higher
first employee." Later on, I might say, "Move to Amsterdam office." Here I might say, "Doing four workshops a month." I wouldn't be worrying about that or moving to an
Amsterdam office. No, that's just out of the ballpark of hiring
my first employee. Maybe for that, I could say,
"Let's use freelancers. Hire a freelancer." And then in the interim, I need to be figuring
out what a workshop is. What am I going to be doing? What are these workshops? Right right here I should be saying, "Make workshops." That's what I want to be doing. I want to be creating
these types of exercises for all stages
of people's careers, their personal
lives, for offices, for companies to figure out what they want to do and how
they want to do it. I need to be making workshops. I need to be creating prompts. I need to be doing
this on a daily basis. Another thing is, if
you start doing this on a daily basis from the beginning and it isn't what you
really want to do, then you know that is
not what you want to do. So you haven't wasted five
years and all this wishful thinking and working
towards a goal for nothing. You've just got this almost like a minimal
viable product, which is a very small version
of what you want to do. And because this is the mundane parts of your
life, the average day, the 99th percent
part of your life, if you don't enjoy that, then it's a sign that you should perhaps find something else.
5. Taking the First Step: Now to end this session off, what I'd like you to do is
I'd like you to highlight just this first section. This is something that saves
everyone a lot of time, a lot of brain processing power. What is this for you? If you don't have an arrow right there, what
is that for you? What is the next set
of steps for you? For me it's making workshops and its meeting with
business people and finding other workshops
comes just after that. It's meeting with like-minded
people; who have ideas. That's what I need to be
focusing on right now. This person where I am today and this person that I want
to be in five years time, effectively, they
are the same person. When you're going
about your journey, what's the difference between this person and this person? What can you add or what can you remove
to this person's life to slowly become more and
more like this person? Hopefully, you can start
to say, "Actually, I don't want to tell
people about services," or "I don't want to do these
things that are in my brain, but I do want to do this." That's really important. When you start just
focusing on this first bit, you start to become the person that does all of these things. There's no way that
I will be a workshop that's hiring their
first employee if I wasn't first
creating workshops, if I wasn't speaking
with business people.
6. Q&A: I'd love to field
some questions now, I think that it's a very
powerful way of intentionally figuring out where
you want to go and then making steps
and strides towards it. Awesome. Thank you so much, Rich. Lots of love in the chat. Bravo and great talk. This thing is definitely
resonating with folks. Got some questions and just
a reminder to the audience. We'd love to hear from you. This is your time to ask Rich whatever you want to ask
based on today's talk. If it sparked an
idea or question, send it over in the chat and I will pass
it along to Rich. We've got about 10 minutes
to keep discussing, so definitely don't be shy. Send in those questions. Here's one for you Rich, did you know you always
wanted to live in Amsterdam? No, I didn't. It's a fairly lengthy story. But initially, I got approached by
recruits and they said, "Hey, do you want to come work at booking.com in Amsterdam?" I was like, "What
is booking.com? That sounds super dodgy. Where the heck is Amsterdam? This is just bizarre." I was like, "No thanks." Then they say, "Would you have a
friend who maybe would like to work
in Amsterdam?" I'm like, "Okay. I have a
friend, get them the details." They ended up getting
flown to Amsterdam for an interview and I was
like, "Wow, that's crazy." Then they got the job in Amsterdam and I'm like,
"Where is Amsterdam?" I'd always wanted to travel, but Amsterdam was
never on my list. Then I saw Amsterdam, I was like, "Oh my goodness. Hey, recruiter, is there
any other position?" They are like, "Of course, let's set up a few interviews." That led to me
coming to Amsterdam after traveling in
Europe for four weeks, and I was like,
"Amsterdam is amazing." We felt at home after
15 minutes on a bus. Then when I got home
a few months later, we were both like,
"Let's go to Amsterdam. No, let's not go to Amsterdam." A few things clicked into place, I did an exercise where
almost like this, I visualized life
in South Africa, life in Amsterdam, and they were both very good
but Amsterdam was different. A call to adventure, exploration,
something different. We both had European passports, so we sold everything we had and we moved to Amsterdam
just like black-box almost and we were just
going to try it out. Now we still absolutely love it. The other day it was crazy. I was riding my back feats, which is a wagon
with my baby in it. It was raining and I'm like, "This would have been
impossible six years ago. I'm in a foreign
country, it's raining. I'm on a bike and
I have a baby." Totally cool. I love that. Thank you for sharing it. I've related question. Looking back, would you say that your future goals have
mainly stayed the same, changed, shrunk, grown, gone in totally
different directions? I think that in hindsight, things are quite clear for me. I always wanted to
have my own business. I always wanted to work in
a non, what's the word? I always wanted my
income to be passive or not related to the
time that I spent. I've always said no
to jobs that said, "Hey, come work for us full
time and we'll pay you." Even if it's really well, I just think no, thanks. I would rather spend my time working on something that's
going to last a long time. That's how I've lived
my entire life. Then helping people,
seeing people come alive, that's why I was a
product designer. I was like, "Hey, I want
to help you achieve this. I don't know how
to do that, except by building you an interface. Let me build you an
interface and hey, I can code that too. Let's help you do this." That's morphed into
creating classes, into writing books,
into workshopping. It's directly helping
people and I get to speak, I get to write, I get
to have a lot of fun. That's awesome. Two questions that are related, so I'll lump them together. How do you then get your work out there so that
more people see it or related to today's
conversation, put out the goals or the version of yourself
that you want to be, and how do you then do it in
a way that feels authentic? Staying connected to yourself, staying honest with yourself
in your own ideas and goals? That's a good question. I'm not quite sure
how to answer that. I think this is a fairly new way of doing life at
the moment for me. I'm exploring, I'm
experimenting, I create classes that
I would love to take, and I'm very intuitive. On like a Myers Briggs test, I would score 96 on the
intuition side of things. What a lot of the time
I try to do is try take my intuitive approach and
map it out for other people. I put it on paper to say, "If you want to think like
me in a structured way, this is how I would maybe
suggest that you do it." That's what I try to do. I try to share
that on Instagram. I try to share that in my
newsletter on SkillShare and hopefully in more and
different ways in the future. That's awesome. Thank you. Have you done this particular
map method for yourself before and did you get
to point B or C or D? This particular student says that they love this
way of visualizing what you want and I'm curious
how it worked out for you. Yes. The Amsterdam one was definitely this is where I want to go
and how do I get there? How do I sell cars and a house and all this stuff
that I've accumulated? How do I find a house and how do I get a job and
how do I get a tax number? That's also overwhelming. What's first step? What's Step number 1? Call the estate agents, "Can you sell our house?" "Yes." That was the process
that we took. But I had this visualization of what life looked
like at that time. Now I'm visualizing, "What does this look for me?" Perhaps what you didn't see
here is me with glasses on and I don't wear glasses. My eyes are perfect
and I don't need to go see an optician
for like 10 years, but there's blue light
glasses that you can get and I'm like, "Yes, I
just want glasses." Because I want to be that person with glasses and a lanyard on who stands up in
front of a whiteboard and helps people. I had that in my mind and I
have drawing a pizza slice or a pizza with a
bunch of slices and I don't know
what that means, but that's what's in my mind and I'm working towards
that, whatever that is. I'm envisioning my studio being a home studio being
a bit smaller and then a company studio, be fairly small,
and we travel often and we have a lot of whiteboards and post-its and we help people. That for me is where
I'm aiming towards. But at the same
time, this doesn't have to be where you end
up in five years time. Halfway through, you could find an adjoining road or
path and be like, "This is my thing. I just found animation or
I found something else." But you never would have
found that unless you are intentional about
this current journey. My five-year plan has
very seldom ended where I wanted it to because it continually changes,
which is great. What I would recommend
is doing this exercise every six months or continually envisioning what you want for
different things. It could be for work, a
house, relationships. It could be for friendships
where you want to travel to, what your family life is like. Up until two years
ago, I was like, my life does not
include kids at all. But my family life in
10 years time did. I was like, "How do you
reconcile these two things? We need to have a kid. Yes, we need to have a kid. Let's have a kid." It's just interesting
what happens when you start to
look into the future. Very interesting. Love the idea of doing a regular gut-checking in with
yourself I suppose. It also can keep you on
track, like you said. On that note, do you have daily
rituals that help you stay focused on your goals or on making that progress
towards your future? I shift between a bunch
of different things that I currently try out. I used to write a
lot every morning, half an hour or an hour. I then started
dueling every day, which is not very focused
on going towards a goal. But recently I felt
quite overwhelmed by the amount of things
that I want to do. Which I've often felt, and sometimes I put post-its up and there is being
100 on the wall. Then I'm like, "That's not
going to work right now." Or I'll put it into a timetable, or I'll do this kind of a thing. But at the moment,
I'm bullet journaling and I think I'm like three
months in or something, and I've just bought the book, and I'm reading and
a lot of the stuff that the guy talks about, I'm like, "Yes, I believe that. I've said that in
some form or another, and now you're just
giving me language and words for how I think and how I would like
to process the world." At the moment, I have a bunch of things
I want to do in a day. I have monthly goals, yearly goals, things like that. Then I copy and paste the things that I didn't do in a day. I scratch things off, d journal and I have different collections
for other types of things like blue light glasses and
NFTs and things like that.
7. Final Thoughts: Hey, congratulations on
finishing the class. I hope you've had a lot of fun. I hope that by the
end of this class you've had a lot of fun. You have two exercises to plug into any
area of your life, whether it's your business, your career, relationships,
family, house, whatever. Then from there, you
can start to visualize and then make clear
steps in order to realize what that looks like. It was really good to
see you in this class. That is it for me, bye for now.
Rich From TapTapKaboom, Multi-hyphenate Artist
