Forward.

Setting your clothes out the night before or meal planning are ways to think forward. Thinking forward carries the sense that preparation beforehand can be helpful, that it would serve the future self.

The act of preparation acknowledges that needs can feel out of reach during high energy outputs.

How about the same acknowledgement and preparation with your energy?

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Thinking forward offers you strategy, contemplation of when you might need emotional or physical bumpers to refuel.

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Thinking forward gives you the opportunity to mentally prepare, to consider repeat offenders of overstimulation and energy drain. Thinking forward gives you time to estimate what type of energy a particular environment or person will take from you.

Thinking forward is for you.

Thinking forward gives you the opportunity to make adjustments.

Thinking forward is self-advocacy.

Thinking forward considers what you give, alongside what you need.

Journal Prompt: If I look forward, I need…