Reverse Planning Your Life
From your worst future, find what to do today
Description
Not satisfied with your current situation but unsure where to go? This skill helps you flip your perspective— Instead of asking "What do I want?", first ask "What do I fear becoming most?". The method comes from American author Dan Koe, whose book "How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day" has 170 million reads on X. The core logic: Fear is clearer than desire; running away is more powerful than pursuing. **Five levels of progression, from vague to specific:** 1. **Anti-Vision** — What is the version of yourself you most don't want to become? Write down that future you fear. 2. **Vision** — Conversely, what is the life you truly want? 3. **Annual Goals** — What must you accomplish this year to move further from your anti-vision and closer to your vision? 4. **Monthly Projects** — What specific things will you do this month? 5. **Daily Leverage List** — What must you do today, and what must you avoid doing? In the end, you'll get a clear daily action list, grounding your life goals in today's specific choices. This is not chicken soup; it's an actionable reverse path.
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ResearchGoal Review & Blind Spots v1.0
Why do you need this skill? Have you ever encountered these confusions: 📝 Written many journals and notes, but don't know what they are telling you? 🤔 Always feel a gap between life and ideals, but can't pinpoint the problem? 💭 Want to plan for the future, but don't know what you truly want? 🔍 Feel like you have blind spots, but no outside perspective to help you see clearly? This skill is designed to solve these problems. It is not a cold data analysis tool, but a gentle, insightful coach that, through three core scenarios, helps you: ✨ Discover - Uncover hidden themes and emotional patterns from fragmented records ✨ Align - See the match between behaviors and values, find the root of deviations ✨ Open - Clarify 'the life I want' through carefully designed questions
ResearchOPC Founder Coach: Find Your Path
If you have these struggles, this skill is designed for you: 🌀 About Self-Awareness ❓ "I often feel like I don't really know myself or what I truly want." ❓ "I feel like I'm playing a role others expect, but I don't know who I really am." ❓ "Why do I keep repeating the same mistakes and falling into the same emotional loops?" ❓ "How did my personality and emotional patterns form? Is it related to my family of origin?" 💔 About the Past and Healing ❓ "Childhood wounds still affect me. I want to make peace with the past." ❓ "I always feel undeserving or not good enough. Where does that voice come from?" ❓ "In intimate relationships, I'm always anxious or avoidant. Why?" ❓ "I want to heal my inner child but don't know where to start." 📖 About Life Story ❓ "I have rich life experiences, but they feel scattered. I can't tell a coherent story." ❓ "In interviews/speeches, I don't know how to introduce myself—it always sounds dry." ❓ "I want to organize my life and see the path I've walked." ❓ "I want to turn my experiences into powerful stories that impact others." 🎯 About the Future and Goals ❓ "I feel lost. I don't know the direction of my life." ❓ "I have many ideas but don't know how to choose or where to start." ❓ "I want to design my life, but 'designing life' sounds too abstract." ❓ "I want happiness, but don't know what happiness specifically means to me." 🚀 About Action and Change ❓ "I know the problem, but I just can't act—I always procrastinate." ❓ "I set many goals but never achieve them." ❓ "I want to change, but the thought of what I need to do makes me anxious and stressed." ❓ "I've tried many methods, but I can never stick with them." 🌈 About Happiness and Meaning ❓ "I feel like I've been striving for the future, forgetting to live in the present." ❓ "I want more moments of joy, flow, and meaning." ❓ "I want to find the meaning of life, but don't know where to look." ❓ "I want to live more authentically, more freely, more like myself."
5 Unasked Qs: Talent & Career
This isn't another AI coach. Most self-awareness tools on the market make you answer dozens of questions, give you a "You are an XX-type personality" label, and recommend a few job titles. You think "that kind of makes sense," but you don't know how to use it. This skill is different. Only 5 questions. All behavior-based—not "What do you think you're good at?" but "What did you repeatedly search and research in the past 12 months?" "When was the last time you couldn't help but meddle in someone else's business?" "What specific scenarios would three different people think of you first?" Your mouth may lie, but your behavior won't. No empathy, no fluff, no templates. No "Your words made my eyes light up," no "Now let's move to Question X." Ask, distill, next question. Done in 15 minutes. The results are yours alone. Every talent verb is tied to a real scenario you described. It won't tell you "You're a strategic talent"—it will say "You mentioned in Q3 that when everyone was arguing, you couldn't help splitting the topic into three discussable directions. This points to your core talent: quickly building a discussable structure amid chaos." The output is directly usable. A passion core + core values + talent description + career direction hypothesis + a 2-week validation plan (the first step you can do without quitting your job). Plus one action: send your one-line talent description to someone who knows you and ask—"Is that accurate?"
Reverse Planning Your Life
From your worst future, find what to do today
Description
Not satisfied with your current situation but unsure where to go? This skill helps you flip your perspective— Instead of asking "What do I want?", first ask "What do I fear becoming most?". The method comes from American author Dan Koe, whose book "How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day" has 170 million reads on X. The core logic: Fear is clearer than desire; running away is more powerful than pursuing. **Five levels of progression, from vague to specific:** 1. **Anti-Vision** — What is the version of yourself you most don't want to become? Write down that future you fear. 2. **Vision** — Conversely, what is the life you truly want? 3. **Annual Goals** — What must you accomplish this year to move further from your anti-vision and closer to your vision? 4. **Monthly Projects** — What specific things will you do this month? 5. **Daily Leverage List** — What must you do today, and what must you avoid doing? In the end, you'll get a clear daily action list, grounding your life goals in today's specific choices. This is not chicken soup; it's an actionable reverse path.
Related Skills
View allResearchGoal Review & Blind Spots v1.0
Why do you need this skill? Have you ever encountered these confusions: 📝 Written many journals and notes, but don't know what they are telling you? 🤔 Always feel a gap between life and ideals, but can't pinpoint the problem? 💭 Want to plan for the future, but don't know what you truly want? 🔍 Feel like you have blind spots, but no outside perspective to help you see clearly? This skill is designed to solve these problems. It is not a cold data analysis tool, but a gentle, insightful coach that, through three core scenarios, helps you: ✨ Discover - Uncover hidden themes and emotional patterns from fragmented records ✨ Align - See the match between behaviors and values, find the root of deviations ✨ Open - Clarify 'the life I want' through carefully designed questions
ResearchOPC Founder Coach: Find Your Path
If you have these struggles, this skill is designed for you: 🌀 About Self-Awareness ❓ "I often feel like I don't really know myself or what I truly want." ❓ "I feel like I'm playing a role others expect, but I don't know who I really am." ❓ "Why do I keep repeating the same mistakes and falling into the same emotional loops?" ❓ "How did my personality and emotional patterns form? Is it related to my family of origin?" 💔 About the Past and Healing ❓ "Childhood wounds still affect me. I want to make peace with the past." ❓ "I always feel undeserving or not good enough. Where does that voice come from?" ❓ "In intimate relationships, I'm always anxious or avoidant. Why?" ❓ "I want to heal my inner child but don't know where to start." 📖 About Life Story ❓ "I have rich life experiences, but they feel scattered. I can't tell a coherent story." ❓ "In interviews/speeches, I don't know how to introduce myself—it always sounds dry." ❓ "I want to organize my life and see the path I've walked." ❓ "I want to turn my experiences into powerful stories that impact others." 🎯 About the Future and Goals ❓ "I feel lost. I don't know the direction of my life." ❓ "I have many ideas but don't know how to choose or where to start." ❓ "I want to design my life, but 'designing life' sounds too abstract." ❓ "I want happiness, but don't know what happiness specifically means to me." 🚀 About Action and Change ❓ "I know the problem, but I just can't act—I always procrastinate." ❓ "I set many goals but never achieve them." ❓ "I want to change, but the thought of what I need to do makes me anxious and stressed." ❓ "I've tried many methods, but I can never stick with them." 🌈 About Happiness and Meaning ❓ "I feel like I've been striving for the future, forgetting to live in the present." ❓ "I want more moments of joy, flow, and meaning." ❓ "I want to find the meaning of life, but don't know where to look." ❓ "I want to live more authentically, more freely, more like myself."
5 Unasked Qs: Talent & Career
This isn't another AI coach. Most self-awareness tools on the market make you answer dozens of questions, give you a "You are an XX-type personality" label, and recommend a few job titles. You think "that kind of makes sense," but you don't know how to use it. This skill is different. Only 5 questions. All behavior-based—not "What do you think you're good at?" but "What did you repeatedly search and research in the past 12 months?" "When was the last time you couldn't help but meddle in someone else's business?" "What specific scenarios would three different people think of you first?" Your mouth may lie, but your behavior won't. No empathy, no fluff, no templates. No "Your words made my eyes light up," no "Now let's move to Question X." Ask, distill, next question. Done in 15 minutes. The results are yours alone. Every talent verb is tied to a real scenario you described. It won't tell you "You're a strategic talent"—it will say "You mentioned in Q3 that when everyone was arguing, you couldn't help splitting the topic into three discussable directions. This points to your core talent: quickly building a discussable structure amid chaos." The output is directly usable. A passion core + core values + talent description + career direction hypothesis + a 2-week validation plan (the first step you can do without quitting your job). Plus one action: send your one-line talent description to someone who knows you and ask—"Is that accurate?"
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