Journaling About the Future (30-Day Printable Activity)

The future may have a lot of unknowns, but we can still have goals, aspirations, and adventures we want to go on. Our 30 days of journaling about the future has ideas to explore different parts of your future and start proactively prioritizing things you want to do.

Through journaling, you can align your values and goals, and be more motivated to make plans and continue your progress. Journaling about the future can also help with finding purpose, making decisions, and put the spotlight on not only your bigger goals and ambitions, but the everyday joys, too.

You can try this journaling activity any time you like. Find the printable at the foot of the article.

‘Journaling About the Future’ Ideas

Here you can take a closer look at all of the ideas in the full calendar. Some are about identifying goals and things you want to do, and others are more big picture, focusing on how you can help others, legacy, and other meaningful things.

1. Describe your ideal world.
2. Your biggest three goals for the future.
3. What your perfect day would look like.
4. Three things you’d want to be different in one year.
5. Three things you’d want to be different in five years.
6. Three things you’d want to be different in ten years.
7. Future career achievements you dream of.
8. Describe the most exciting version of the short-term future.
9. Describe the most exciting version of the long-term future.
10. One skill you’d want to perfect in the future.
11. One bad habit to let go of in the future.
12. Describe where you live five years from now.
13. Describe the kind of person you are in 5 years.
14. Describe the person you’d want to be in 5 years.
15. The friends and people you have around you in 5 years.
16. Describe the kind of person you are in 10 years.
17. Describe the person you’d want to be in 10 years.
18. The friends and people you have around you in 10 years.
19. Create a timeline of life milestones in your ideal version of the future.
20. Bucket list items you would have completed in 5 years.
21. Bucket list items you would have completed in 10 years.
22. Your favorite things about your future self.
23. What success looks like in the future.
24. What joy looks like in the future.
25. What family means to you in the future.
26. What legacy means to you in the future.
27. What well-being means to you in the future.
28. What love means to you in the future.
29. What home means to you in the future.
30. What freedom means to you in the future.

Get the 30-Day Future Journaling Printable here.

Yes, the future has a lot of unknowns. However, we can be proactive in trying to do more of the things we enjoy and having time with loved ones.

We hope this calendar allows you to better identify these things and make plans both for the near and long-term future.