Futurecasting is the practice of predicting significant events, activities, and experiences that will happen in the future. Choose one of these five fun formats to invent your next year.

1. Futurecast Your Next Year Futurecast Your Next Year:
Five Fun Formats for
Inventing Your Own Future

2. Futurecast Your Next Year
Visualize Your Story
If I accomplish my top priority this year, it could look like this….
Before During
Soon A?er Long A?er

3. Futurecast Your Next Year
Capture Goals for Key Focus Areas
Key Focus Areas Goals ObjecHves Metrics/Outcome
[One key focus area in
which I want to make
progress for the
coming year is…]
[My primary goal for
this area over the next
year is…]
[My three main
objecHves for this goal
are…].
1. .
2. .
3. .
[A metric or outcome
that will show I
achieved my goal and/
or objecHves this year
is…]

4. Futurecast Your Next Year
Take an Analogy Fieldtrip
Go on a real or virtual fieldtrip to a place that inspires you, find something
intriguing that catches your interest, and complete the prompt below.
[Insert Picture Here.]
(Might Be a Compelling Work of
Art, InteresHng View, Funny Piece
of MarkeHng, Sizzling Scene,
InteresHng Everyday Object, or
Moving Moment.)
This __________________
[item]
is like
____________________________
[my desired outcome for the year]
because
_____________________________.
[explanaHon of connecHon]

5. Futurecast Your Next Year
AnHcipate Windows of Opportunity
2018 Desires: What do I want to do, accomplish, or grow into this year?
2018 Ac.vi.es: What do I already know or predict I’m going to be working on this year?
2018 Windows: What 3 ways I can adapt what I’m already going to do to make progress on my desires?

6. Futurecast Your Next Year
Construct Your Heavy-li?ing Timeline
Using sHcky-notes, write down projects/tasks that will be your “heavy li?ing”
for 2018. Organize them into quarters then months in the Hmeline below.
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Jan Feb Mar April May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

7. Futurecast Your Next Year
Now that you’ve invented your future, get help:
• Making your story come true.
• Planning to achieve your goals.
• Innovating in windows of opportunity.
• Turning inspiration into action.
• Organizing your heavy-lifting.
Contact us at Richert Innovation Consulting
info@richertinnovation.com