From “Your Own Worst Enemy - breaking the habit of adult underachievement” by Kenneth W. Christian MaxPotential.com starting on page 176.

The exercises for this task ask you to lock in on a vision with sufficient concreteness and specificity. To begin, do the following:

• Take out your notebook and as quickly as you can, freely write down a series of heart’s desires, dreams, and fancies no matter how far-fetched. Do not judge or edit---just write whatever comes to mind until you feel you have truly exhausted every possibility. Do this now then read on.

.....In response to each question below, write down, as quickly as possible, as many things as come to mind, devoting a minimum of sixty seconds to a maximum of ninety seconds to each one. Set a timer if necessary. Write without stopping. If your mind goes blank, simply write the word blocking on the page. If a response you have written previously comes to mind, write it again.
......When you have finished answering one question, then and only then go on to the next question. Use a separate page (or pages) to answer each question. Here are the questions:

• What would you do that you are not doing now, or have not done, if success were 100 percent guaranteed?
• What would you do that you are not doing now, or have not done, if you had twice as much self-esteem?
• As a child, what did you think you would like to do when you grew up, or what did you see or hear that intrigued or fascinated you? (The source could have been a movie, book, newspaper article, or something you did at camp or on summer vacation. The interest does not have to be about work or career.)
• As a child, what personal qualities or types or activities always inspired respect or awe in you, and later on as an adult, which qualities might you have cultivated in yourself if you had known how to develop them?
• What activity would you undertake if you did not have to be concerned with making a living? In other words, what would you do if money were no object?

From now on, start a new page each day, date it, and simply write. Do not continue the next day on the same page you used the day before, In Fact, it is preferable not to look back at your responses until the first week has passed. What came to you yesterday was what come to you yesterday. Do not let it influence what might come to you now. Be curious and interested in seeing what your mind offers you today.

........After one week, and only after one week, examine your responses for themes..... You will have completed these exercises when you conclude a minimum of a week’s work and you feel you have gained a clear vision of a dream. Your dream should represent a stretch beyond your current position but not beyond your realm of belief. Your dream must be conceivable to you, even if it exceeds what you have previously thought to be realistic.
........Don’t trip up on terminology or preconceived notions. The recognized importance of a vision goes back at least to the Old Testament, where it is said, “Without a vision, the people perish.” You don’t have to have some monster dream that stops time in order to move on. Here is what Earl did and what you can do too:

• on a blank sheet of paper in your notebook write down a list of things you want to do, experience or master before you die. .. Do not judge the worthiness or practicality of what you write. This is in one way a repeat of the first exercise, but by now considerably more possibilities should occur or you. Be curious, and write down whatever comes to you.

.....Now he was tapping into the realm of curiosity, passion, interest, and desire. Identify the top five goals as your current dream, and use them in all future exercises that have to do with your dream.