The Future Focused Framework (F3) is here to help you become the best version of yourself. It's not a course, therapy, or counseling - but a community of people who share common goals.

In order to get to where you want to be, you must first understand where you are. F3 uses ideas from many proven methods. It includes Future-oriented therapy (FOT) and future-directed therapy (FDT), which focus more on the future than the past or present. To help you plan your future, we use psychology tests like personality and cognitive tests. These tests help us understand our current state and find areas to improve. We also use vision-building methods from a system called Traction, which helps us map out our life's vision. Finally, we include project management techniques from fields like software development, where trying new things, learning from mistakes, and getting feedback are important.

F3 has three main parts: self-evaluation, action, and reflection. Each week, we work on these areas to stay focused on our goals while being aware of where we currently stand. This process helps us grow and move towards becoming our best selves.

Self Evaluation

Personality: Who are you really?

Everyone must critically assess themselves to become the best leader they can be. Self-evaluation is essential for growth because it helps you reflect on your strengths and weaknesses, leading to better decision-making and goal setting. Understanding your personality traits allows you to leverage your strengths. The personality sheet is designed to help you understand your unique traits.

Assets: What has worked, and not worked for you in the past?

Conducting an asset assessment is vital for achieving goals because it helps you identify and leverage your strengths, resources, and capabilities, increasing your chances of success. The assets sheet helps you outline these positive traits and resources while also identifying weaknesses to either avoid or improve.

Vision: What do you want your life to be?

A personal vision statement gives you a clear sense of purpose, guiding your decisions and actions to align with your long-term goals and values. The vision organizer sheet helps you shape and document your vision for regular review, ensuring your actions stay aligned. You can create multiple vision sheets for different timeframes, such as yearly, five-year, or lifelong goals.

Action

Goal Tracker: What do you need to accomplish to meet your vision?

Long-term goals provide a sense of purpose, direction, and motivation, guiding individuals to make consistent efforts toward achieving meaningful and fulfilling outcomes over time. The goal tracker comprises a prioritized list of significant milestones, aiding in directing your attention towards the overarching vision for your life in the long term.

Issues: What issues are blocking you from ACHIEVING your tasks?

Challenges inevitably surface in life, but the key is not allowing them to overshadow your day. The issue tracker serves as a central hub for documenting arising issues. For urgent matters, prioritize immediate attention; for those that can wait, incorporate resolution tasks into your upcoming weekly plan.

Tasks: What short term actions do you need to take to get closer?

The task list serves as a tool crafted to direct your attention to actions within the upcoming week, breaking down larger roadmap items into manageable tasks, facilitating visualization, definition, and accomplishment within this shorter timeframe.

Reflection

Wins: What have you accomplished?

Maintaining a list of completed tasks provides a tangible record of achievements, fostering a sense of accomplishment, motivation, and progress, while also offering a valuable reference for tracking personal productivity and growth over time. The wins sheet is a compilation of completed tasks; at the conclusion of each week, you'll transfer the tasks you've successfully finished to this list.

Review: What's going well, what did not going well in the past week

Reviewing your personal efforts with your cohort is crucial for self-improvement as it allows you to gain insights into your successes and challenges, fostering self-awareness and enabling more informed decision-making to enhance your personal growth and achievement of goals. At the end of each week, you'll document both the successes and challenges experienced during that time along with some things you need to start doing. The purpose of sharing your week with your cohort is to collect feedback and encouragement from our cohort. These learnings will impact our decision making as we plan for the next week.

Planning: What's next?'

Over the past week, we've gained a lot of insight into our current situation, capabilities, and clearer next steps. Now, we’ll focus on defining tasks for the upcoming week that will help us progress. While we can plan for the next few weeks, it’s crucial to ensure that next week's tasks are clear, concise, and will move us forward.

We’ll spend some extra time at the beginning to complete your self-evaluation, and we'll pause every few months to reevaluate it. However, each week, we’ll review our vision to ensure we’re on track to achieve it.

Each section is repeated weekly and shared with our cohort. You'll discover that the true power of this framework lies in the community and the impact of taking small steps.