Why You Need To Forecast Your Feelings To Achieve Big Goals

Affective forecasting is forcing you to view your goals through the lens of what you really want, what will make you happy, and how achieving those goals will make you feel.

It’s a practice that helps you confront peer pressure, other people’s expectations and learned behaviors.

1. Understand the things that stand between your present self and your future self. That includes those natural biases, but it also includes situations and events you just can’t predict.
2. Use mindfulness to get in touch with your emotions, to recognize and understand them, without being consumed by them.
3. Consider outside forces and their effects.