7 Ways to Harness the FutureMe Website for Personal Growth

Write a letter to your future self

Paul Ryburn, M.Sc.
5 min readMar 7, 2021
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FutureMe is a website on which anyone can write an email to their future self, and schedule it to be delivered at a time in the future. The default choices are to deliver the email 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years from the date sent, but you can pick a particular delivery date ranging from 30 days to 50 years in the future.

You can make your letter private, or you can make it public but anonymous so that it can be read by FutureMe website users on the date the email is delivered. The FutureMe user community curates the best public emails.

Obviously, you want to use an address that is going to be accessible for a while, so your best bet is to not use a work or school email address that is not permanent. It also may not be a good idea to use an email address tied to your Internet Service Provider (ISP), since you may change providers at some future point. Email services like Gmail and Yahoo! Mail are safe choices.

Let’s look at 7 possible ways you could use FutureMe to level up your life or the life of someone you know.

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Paul Ryburn, M.Sc.

I write about writing, ideas, creativity, homelessness, intuition, spirituality, life lessons. Ex-college teacher Twitter: @paulryburn