I got this next piece of advice from a life coach I worked with a couple of years ago.

By the way, you’ve never worked with a coach, let it be the first thing you spend money on when you can afford it. Okay, they usually don’t come cheap but a good one can catapult your career towards the stars!

Anyway…the advice is this:

Write a letter to yourself from the future. Date it one year or five years from now and write to tell yourself how far you’ve come, what you’ve achieved and how good your life is.

Thank yourself for being who you are now and point out all the current traits (even the bad ones!) you have that resulted in your future success.

Write about all the things that inspired you and how you overcame problems to get the goals you set yourself.

The best part? Getting to the date you wrote the letter from, and rereading it. You’ll be amazed. It’s like you were psychic!