Where Do You Want To Be in the Next Five to Ten Years? There is another technique to help us make a better decision in developing and moving our career forward. You have two choices regarding your future: you can wait for it to happen, or you can invent it and then work to achieve it. In this blog we will look a technique that will help you create your desired future: The "Letter to the Future". The "Letter to the Future" is your own personal north star . Once you have articulated what you want as clearly as possible, it will serve as a guide, and draw you towards it. To write your own "Letter to the Future," pick a time ? 5, 10, 15 years from now, or any length ? longer or shorter that is meaningful to you. Date the top of the letter with that future date. Imagine the intervening years have passed and you are writing to a friend (pick someone you know, like and feel comfortable talking to about your career). Use the friend's name in the salutation, as "Dear Terrye" (friend's name) or if you prefer, pick some other supportive person to whom you can comfortably imagine writing about your vision of the future. Writing the letter from the future will feel strange at first. Most people get a feeling of intense improbability because writing about the future in the past tense just does not make sense. However, as you progress in writing