My Future Vision
You have learned so much in this module. You know the future is coming and that it will be amazing. You know you will help build it. You know the skills that will carry you there — curiosity, creativity, kindness, and the ability to welcome new things. Now it is your turn. This lesson belongs to you. You are going to imagine your future — not just any future, but YOUR future. The life you want to live. The work you want to do. The world you want to help create.
Why Imagining Matters
Some people say daydreaming is a waste of time. They are wrong. Imagining your future is the very first step toward building it. When you picture something — a job you want, a place you want to go, a problem you want to solve — your brain starts paying attention to anything in the world that could help you get there. Athletes do this all the time. Before a big race or game, they close their eyes and picture exactly how they want to perform. Scientists have discovered that this mental practice actually helps — imagining doing something well trains your brain almost the same way as doing it for real. Your imagination is not just daydreaming. It is practice. It is planning. It is the beginning of everything.
Imagining your future is the very first step to building it. Your vision of what you want to become is more powerful than you know.
Before you do the big activity, here are some questions to warm up your imagination. What is something you love doing so much that time disappears? What is a problem you have noticed in the world that makes you wish someone would fix it? Who is someone you admire — not because they are famous, but because of how they live and what they do? When you imagine yourself as a grown-up, what is one word you hope describes you? There are no wrong answers to any of these. They are just sparks to light up your imagination before you build your full vision.
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For this activity, you have full permission to dream as big as you want. There is no vision too grand, too unusual, or too creative. This is YOUR future — make it extraordinary.
Why do athletes imagine their performance before a big competition?
What should you do if your future vision changes as you grow up?
My Future Vision — The Big One
- This is your most important activity in this whole module. Take your time with it.
- Step 1 — Who are you in the future? Close your eyes and imagine yourself ten or twenty years from now. Where do you live? What do you look like? How do you feel?
- Step 2 — What work do you do? Describe the work you do in the future. It can be a real job, an invented job, or a mix of things. What problem does your work solve? Who does it help?
- Step 3 — What are you proud of? What is one thing you built, changed, or created that you are most proud of?
- Step 4 — What kind of person are you? Write three words that describe future-you as a person — not your job, but who you are.
- Step 5 — Draw or write your vision. Create a page called MY FUTURE VISION. Fill it with words, drawings, colors — anything that brings your future to life.
- When you are done, share your future vision with someone who matters to you. Explain it out loud. Saying your vision aloud makes it more real. And remember: this is just the beginning.