CDFS 408
Timeline Exercise
Take out a piece of paper and on that paper draw a line from one end of the page to the next. See example of line
below. Start the line with the year you were born. Now take a minute and think about how long you would like to
live and at the other end of the line write the year that you would like to leave this earth. For example if you were
born in 1980 and would like to live to be 80 years old your line would look something like this:
(Born) (Death)
1980___________________________________________________________________________________________________2060
Now list 10 events from your past, present and future that are of great importance to you. These event should be in
order of importance with 1=most important and 10=leased important. Your time line will look something like this:
(Born) (Death)
1975_____1_____________________2______________________3_____________________4_5__6_____7_8____9____10____20
75
1) Age__23___ Event_ Graduate ______
2) Age_25____ Event - My first professional Job____
3) Age__28___ Event- marriage_____
4) Age_29____ Event- Parenthood (Give birth to my first born)
5) Age___34__ Event-First life achievement milestone (owing a home)____
6) Age__38___ Event_______ Open my own business
7) Age___43__ Event_______ Thrive in business stop depending solely on my employment
8) Age___50__ Event_______ retire
Timeline Exercise
Take out a piece of paper and on that paper draw a line from one end of the page to the next. See example of line
below. Start the line with the year you were born. Now take a minute and think about how long you would like to
live and at the other end of the line write the year that you would like to leave this earth. For example if you were
born in 1980 and would like to live to be 80 years old your line would look something like this:
(Born) (Death)
1980___________________________________________________________________________________________________2060
Now list 10 events from your past, present and future that are of great importance to you. These event should be in
order of importance with 1=most important and 10=leased important. Your time line will look something like this:
(Born) (Death)
1975_____1_____________________2______________________3_____________________4_5__6_____7_8____9____10____20
75
1) Age__23___ Event_ Graduate ______
2) Age_25____ Event - My first professional Job____
3) Age__28___ Event- marriage_____
4) Age_29____ Event- Parenthood (Give birth to my first born)
5) Age___34__ Event-First life achievement milestone (owing a home)____
6) Age__38___ Event_______ Open my own business
7) Age___43__ Event_______ Thrive in business stop depending solely on my employment
8) Age___50__ Event_______ retire
