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Job Search Accelerator · Week 2: AIM · Vision – Defining Success
Purpose: In the Future Self Worksheet, you defined who you want to be and why each role matters. This worksheet takes the next step — it asks what success actually looks and feels like. You can't aim at a target you can't see. This is where your vision becomes real enough to pull you forward.
Step 1
Open Creative Visioning
Before we get specific, we get expansive. Choose one or more scenarios below and let yourself actually imagine the future — not analyze it, not plan it, not qualify it. Just see it. Use whichever exercise gets energy and emotion flowing for you.
Instructions: The first two scenarios (Ideal Future Day and Miracle Question) are recommended — they're the most powerful for most people. The other two are optional but go deeper if you have more time or need a different angle. There's no wrong answer. Write freely — sentences, fragments, bullets. The goal is energy and emotion, not a polished narrative.
Scenario 1: Your Ideal Future Day
It's 3–5 years from now. You've done the work. You made the transition. You're living the life you designed. Walk me through a typical day.
You wake up. Where are you? What do you notice first?
What do you do for work — and how does it feel?
Who are the people around you — at work, at home, in your life?
What does your life look and feel like at the end of this day?
Scenario 2: The Miracle Question
Tonight, while you were sleeping, something shifted. Not everything you ever wanted appeared — but every obstacle you're facing right now just disappeared. You wake up. You don't know anything happened yet.
How would you know something was different? What's the first thing you notice?
What would you do today that you haven't been able to do?
How would you feel? How would you show up for other people?
What does this tell you about what you actually want — and what's been getting in the way?
Scenario 3: No Limits
Money is no longer a concern. The pressure is gone. You have everything you need to live and to pursue what matters. Now what?
What would you actually do with your time?
What kind of work would you do — if anything?
Where would you live? Who would be with you?
What does this tell you about what you're actually after — beneath the financial pressure?
Scenario 4: The Eulogy Exercise
It's the end of your life. The people who matter most are gathered. Someone who knew you well — personally and professionally — is speaking about who you were and what you built.
What kind of person did they describe?
What did they say about your career and the work you did?
What impact did you leave — on people, on your community, on the work you chose?
What were you most proud of?
What themes emerged? What surprised you?
Step 2
Role-Based Vision Statements
Take the key roles and purpose statements from your Future Self Worksheet. For each role, write a Vision Statement — a vivid picture of what that role looks and feels like when it's truly thriving.
Instructions: Open your completed Future Self Worksheet and copy your key roles and purpose statements directly into the table below — don't retype from memory. Your purpose statement is the "why." Your vision statement answers "what does this actually look and feel like when it's working?" Be vivid: include how you feel, what you're doing, what's present that isn't there now. Click "Build My Vision Cards" when ready.
Role Name
Purpose Statement (from Future Self Worksheet)
Enter your roles above, then click to generate your vision statement cards
↑ Enter your roles and click "Build My Vision Cards" to generate.
Step 3
Major Outcomes & Horizons
Start at the end and work backwards. What does success look like at each time horizon? These are the big milestones — not a detailed plan, just a clear direction of travel.
Instructions: For each horizon, write 2–4 concrete outcomes that would mark real progress toward your vision. Think in terms of life as a whole — career, relationships, self. These feed directly into your backward planning in the next lesson.
3+ Years
The bigger picture
6–12 Months
Getting established
90 Days
Your immediate target
Step 4
Career as Vehicle – My Next Chapter
Your career is the vehicle, not the destination — but right now it's the most important vehicle you're building. This section asks you to get specific about what your ideal next career chapter looks and feels like — and how it connects to your bigger life vision.
Instructions: Think of this as a narrative vision for your next career chapter — not a job description, but a vivid picture of who you're becoming professionally and what that enables in your life. Write in first person. Be honest about what would actually excite you.
Career as Vehicle – My Next Chapter
— The vehicle that powers the life you're designing
Reflect
Reflection & Integration
Before you move on, take a few minutes to process what just opened up — and make sure you capture what this means for the work ahead.
Wants & Needs List → Based on everything in this worksheet, what new non-negotiables or preferences can you now name? (Add these directly to your Wants & Needs List)
LifeSketch Career Plan → What one or two things from this vision are strong enough to add or update in your Career Plan right now?
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