A Hopeful Letter From The Past To My Future Self

For the last couple of years, I have written a letter to myself using futureme.

I shared my first letter in one my of Substack newsletters last year. I then wrote myself another letter to be delivered to my email on New Years’ Day 2023, here’s what I wrote;

Dear FutureMe,

By now, you will have:

Got yourself a new job and one you are happy with.

Finished the first draft of that book.

Be moved house or at least in the process

Pitched some writing to publications

Be blogging and sending newsletters & still enjoying it.

Be as happy as you are today.

It’s interesting to look back on those hopes and dreams and see what I’ve achieved, what I haven’t and what I no longer wish for.

A new job and one you are happy with.

I did get myself a new job, one I do love and I had absolutely no idea when I wrote that last year that that new job would be working as a freelance writer!

Finished the first draft of that book.

I haven’t touched my book, I found my focus needed to be elsewhere over the last few months, but writing a book is something I still think about all the time. Seeing this in my letter has made me realise that perhaps this is something I need to give…