Life Plan

A manager at a crossroads - he has flagged dissatisfaction with his current trajectory but cannot articulate what different would look like. When the ideal-day narrative exercise surfaces a picture that reads like a slightly better version of today, it signals either insufficient imaginative reach or accommodation - he has adjusted what he wants to match what he has.

Before he writes, set the parameters explicitly. 'This exercise asks for your ideal - not your realistic, not your likel...