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A letter to my future self 💌

Chris Bongers on January 06, 2021

This is going to be an experiment, a letter to my future self! Why? you might ask? Thinking ahead how your life will look like in a years time N...
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Madza

This technique is actually pretty clever. 😉 Sets goals and keeps inspired 🎯🚀
I've yet to try this and find a post service, that takes 365 days to deliver 😀😀

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Chris Bongers

Yeah, quite like the idea of me receiving a letter from myself :)
Would love to have a 365 delivery service.

Perhaps that's a great startup 👀

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Madza • Edited

An online app, where users can write resolution letters to the future, those get printed out somewhere and physically sent to you after a year 😀 365post.com, 365mail.me or smth 😀😀
I could see a lot of people doing it on New Years eve 🎄

Just need to come up with a revenue model for delivery costs 😉

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Chris Bongers

Indeed! Damn going to work on this for the upcoming new year 👀
Going to be a new trend

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Ruanna • Edited

Love this, great idea! Thanks for sharing!

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Chris Bongers

Thanks Ruanna, glad you like it.
Will you be trying this as well?

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khalilmissaoui

hey , thank you , tell your future self that u been influencing ppl with ur blogs , thank you <3

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Chris Bongers

Haha thank you so much! Nice to hear people see me as a influence! 🤟

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khalilmissaoui

hahahha i came back after one year to tell that i wrote a letter last year and i ve read it days ago and i swear it felt super special , thank you again haahha , happy new year man ! better late than never ! 🤟 :D

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Chris Bongers

Oh man this is amazing to hear!
So nice to see you tried it out and had such a wonderful experience 💖

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Ash

I love these kind of posts, it's so nice to remind yourself of your hard work, and how far you've come. Cheers to the new year!

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Chris Bongers

Thank you!

It is a really good exercise as well
Happy new year! 🎉