The Boundless Guide is a set of tools created to allow you zoom out into the future and back into the present focusing you on the creation of your own personal Boundless Life. The sections of the guide follow a proven format beginning with the totality of your life, then back to your satisfaction level with your current state and back out again to a 10-year horizon and so on. It’s important that you follow the cadence outlined below. The guide is removable so you can move it from Journal to Journal as you progress, and you’ll find extra Boundless Tools in the back of the journal.

Your Dreams:

The YOUR DREAMS tool in your Boundless Guide is just as simple as it sounds. It’s a place for you to write down in the spaces provided all the ‘dreams’ you may have for your life. These are the really big things. You may have no idea how you will achieve them, and they may even scare you a little bit. Nothing is off limits - you can put anything you like in this section. ‘What are all the things you want to see, experience, learn or do?’ There are 40 spaces in this section. Do not feel like you need to fill them all up before you move on. You’ll continually discover new dreams and add them to this list and from this list you’ll begin to pull ideas for future goals and plans.

Your Now:

Every new journey starts with the clarity of where is the beginning, where you are now. The YOUR NOW tool in your Boundless Guide will help you gain clarity of your current state of satisfaction. This section is separated in to two parts 1) Adults and 2) Kids/Teens. For the Adult, the focus is on 6 different areas of your life (Family, Finance, Faith, Fitness, Friends, and Fun). For the Kid/Teen the focus is on 3 different areas of your life (Family, Fun and Future). Complete the section that is appropriate for you and your stage of life. Follow the instructions on the tool to fill in your current satisfaction level (1-10) for each area and then proceed to describe ‘Where you are, what’s happening or not happening and how you feel about it'.

Your Life:

Moving from Your Now to YOUR LIFE (10+ years out into the future) begin creating, by design, a clear outcome on a specific date of what you want to be true in your life. To achieve this there are four categories that you will be creating goals in (Relationships, Achievements, Rituals, and Wealth). You can choose to rename these categories whatever you like, these ‘titles’ are simply a guide to segment your thinking. Follow the instructions on the tool starting with choosing a date at least 10 years in the future and calculating your age on that date. Then, write down a few relationships that are important to you, the people in your life, these can be your parents, your partner or spouse, your friends, your pet. Any relationship that you feel is important to you along with their age on your selected date. At this stage you’ll automatically begin to move yourself out into the future and experience, in your mind’s eye, what is true about that relationship on that date. It can be helpful to close your eyes and use your mind to create the vision before you begin to write down in the space provided (under the heading relationship). Once you complete the ‘relationship’ column, repeat this process of closing your eyes, thinking about, and visioning, for each of the other columns ‘Achievements, Rituals and Wealth’. The Goal here is to, as clearly as possible, write down what is true in each category on your selected date. It may also be helpful to ask yourself ‘What would success look like for me on this selected date’ in order to capture the vividness of the outcome.

Your Year:

Now that you have clarity in each of the four Your Life areas (relationships, achievements, rituals, and wealth) for your minimum 10+ year horizon date we need to define what do we need to do this year to ensure we are moving toward the achievement of Your Life goals. Start in the Relationships column then, just like above, move column by column left to right, in the YOUR YEAR section of The Boundless Guide. Look at the YOUR LIFE (10+ YEAR) column(s) above each section, and ask yourself “If those things are to be true in 10+ years, what must I do this year to create momentum toward fulfillment?” In the space provided write down a few things that you know you must complete this year. Start by using the YOUR LIFE goals to inform these YOUR YEAR goals but don’t limit yourself as you may have some things in your life that you need to complete so that you can focus on what you want from life. In fact, it’s more often true that this is the case. Write down anything that you feel needs to be completed this year for each category. Make sure it is in the correct tense to vividly describe the success you have achieved. A good way to do this is to ask, ‘What would success look like at the end of the year?’ – this would be the outcome or goal you are wanting to achieve.

Your Why:

The power of understanding why a goal is important to you is paramount in your ability to change your behavior toward what needs to happen. Follow the instructions on the tool, write your goal(s) at the top then work your way down answering and re-answering the questions. The process of answering and re-answering the questions in writing is designed to get you thinking more deeply about ‘why’ something is important to you. The faster you allow yourself to move toward an emotional answer the closer you will be getting to the truth and the stronger your conviction will be toward the stated goal(s). The truth will create emotion and emotion will create conviction towards your goal(s). Once you have defined Your Why you may write it directly on the YOUR YEAR tool at the bottom of the column. You will want to repeat this exercise for each column and possibly for multiple goals in each column, it’s your choice. There are extra YOUR WHY tools located in the back of the Journal.

Your Best Self:

The YOUR BEST SELF tool in your Boundless Guide is for you to create a list of things to, over time, add to your life as a habit that help you become your ‘best self’. In the spaces provided write down any action that you know if you did this or if you stopped doing this each and every day, you’ll add to rather than subtract from being your Best Self. The key here is each and every day. This doesn’t mean you are committing to do or not do this each and every day, but you know that if you did, you’d be a better version of yourself. You’re looking for actions that make you feel better, make you think more clearly, cause you to be in a better mood etc. You’ll notice on the left side of your list a series of small boxes. For each activity define a letter, number or symbol and write it in the box next to the activity. Any letter, number or symbol is fine just so that when you see it you know what the activity is that it represents. Don’t repeat letters, numbers of symbols. Once you have created your list and denoted each activity with a letter, number or symbol, we suggest you choose a few to focus on rather than taking on all of these at once. Pick one, two or maybe three that you really feel you’d like to begin the process of making them a habit toward becoming your Best Self.

Your Month:

Before you fill out YOUR MONTH in the guide decide if you’re going to use The Boundless Journal consistently. If you are, disregard the YOUR MONTH section as it is repeated inside The Boundless Journal. If not, follow the instruction on the tool to complete your first YOUR MONTH focus. Begin at the top of the tool. Looking back at YOUR YEAR, decide on a few things that you need to get done this month that will get you closer to achieving your desired outcomes for the year. Write these YOUR MONTH goals in the spaces provided at the top of the tool. Once you have this completed, fill in the days of the current month, or the next 30 days if you choose, in the small boxes in the upper right of each day. Build yourself a calendar. Then move on to Your Best Self ‘boxes’ at the bottom of each day. You’ll notice there is room for up to 5 of these daily activities. As stated, prior, you do not need to choose 5, or even 3, any progress is better than no progress so take it slow. From your listed choices write in each day the letter, number or symbol that represents Your Best Self activity. Lastly, it’s important that you are returning to view and work from this section each day for 30 days, checking off your goals and checking off Your Best Self items as you achieve them. To assist with this the design is created with space each day to write in a statement of gratitude, a simple “What are you grateful for today?” answer. This activity, writing daily gratitude, reviewing Your Best Self activities and acting on them, reviewing Your Month goals and acting on them, then resetting every 30 days with the alignment of Your Year, Your Life and Your Dreams will begin to create the momentum you desire toward a Boundless Life.