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Future Authoring
The Future Authoring Program is designed to help you imagine your ideal
future, three to five years down the road. What would your life be like if
you could set it up in the manner that would
would be best for you? You will be
asked to consider the people you admire, things you could do better, your
educational and career goals, what habits you would like to improve, your
family life, your social network, and your leisure activities. Click
activities. Click here for
more information.
Past Authoring
It is difficult to know who you are, where you should go, or how you should
get there, unless you know where you came from. The Past Authoring
Program is designed to help you write a structured autobiography. It is
particularly useful if you have memories that are more than about eighteen
months old that still intrude upon your thoughts, or that still evoke emotion
such as fear, regret, shame or confusion. Click
confusion. Click here for more information.
The Present Authoring - Faults exercise has been designed to allow you to
do an in-depth analysis of the negative elements of your personality, that
is, your faults. Click
faults. Click here for more information.
The Present Authoring - Virtues exercise has been designed to allow you to
do an in-depth analysis of the positive elements of your personality, that is,
your virtues. Click
virtues. Click here for more information.
Past Authoring
It is difficult to know who you are, where you should go, or how you should
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get there, unless you know where you came from. The Past Authoring
Program has therefore been designed to help you write a structured
autobiography. The program will help you:
Divide your life into seven different time periods or epochs.
Identify the most significant events that occurred during each
epoch.
Describe how each of those experiences has shaped who you are
today.
How it works
When you do the Present Authoring - Faults exercise, you will be asked to
identify your faults from among a list of traits that cluster around a
particular personality factor. So for extraversion, for example, you might
indicate that you tend to feel uncomfortable around others, or that you
bottle up your feelings, and so on. For Openness to Experience, you might
indicate that you have a hard time planning for the future because you are
interested in everything, or that you can become possessed by an idea.
After narrowing down the selected list to the faults that you feel affect
you the most, you will be asked to write about each fault, first describing a
time when that fault caused you trouble, and then exploring what you might
have done, or how you could have acted differently, to affect a different
outcome.
How it works
When you do the Present Authoring - Virtues exercise, you will be asked to
identify your virtues from among a list of traits that cluster around a
particular personality factor. So for extraversion, for example, you might
indicate that you feel comfortable around people, or that you are skilled in
handling social situations, and so on. For Openness to Experience, you might
indicate that you are always learning new things, or that you have a lot of
The Future Authoring Program is designed to help you imagine your ideal
future, three to five years down the road. What would your life be like if
you could set it up in the manner that would be best for you? You will be
asked to consider the people you admire, things you could do better, your
educational and career goals, what habits you would like to improve, your
family life, your social network, and your leisure activities.
Then you will be asked to write freely about your ideal future, without
regard for grammar or spelling, for 15-20 minutes. It is best to use your
imagination, to daydream, during this process. After that, you will be taken
through a series of exercises that will help you specify, in detail, your ideal
future, by summarizing, titling and prioritizing your goals, evaluating your
motives, considering their personal and social impact, strategizing for their
attainment, identifying potential obstacles and their solutions, monitoring
your progress, and evaluating your decisions.