Future Self Authority Map: How to Use AI to Clarify Your Niche, Blind Spots & 90-Day Focus

Part 2 – Turn Your PDF into a Future Self Strategy Report

By now you should have completed the Future Self Authority Map above and downloaded or printed it as a PDF. In this section, you’ll use that PDF with ChatGPT to create a deep Future Self & Niche analysis – without re-typing everything.

1. Make sure your self-reflection is saved as a PDF (from the Download / Print button above).
2. Open ChatGPT in a new tab.
3. Start a new chat or Project and upload your PDF.
4. Use the prompts below to get AI to analyse your document and sketch your Future Self profile.

Step 1 – Upload Your PDF & Ask for a “You Map”

After you upload your PDF into ChatGPT, send this prompt. You’re asking AI to read your self-reflection and mirror back the big themes it sees in you.

You are my strategic mirror.

I’ve uploaded a PDF where I answered a series of questions about:
- my current role and offers
- who I serve
- my strengths and wins
- my niche ideas and blind spots
- my future-self vision and 90-day plan

Step 1:
Read the document carefully and give me a concise “You Map” with these sections:
1) Who I currently am in the market (in your words)
2) The strengths and patterns you see in how I work
3) The transformations I already create for people (before → after)
4) Signals of the niche or category I could be known for
5) Any obvious friction points or contradictions you notice

Be specific, straight, and practical. Don’t ask me more questions yet – first show me what you see.

Read the “You Map” slowly. Highlight anything that feels especially true… and also anything that feels off. You can reply in that chat to correct or add context (e.g. “This part isn’t accurate, here’s what’s closer to the truth…”).

Step 2 – Ask for a Future Self & Niche Report

Next, use your PDF and the You Map to get a more complete picture of your future self and niche. Paste this as a new message in the same chat.

Using my uploaded PDF and the “You Map” you just created, write a clear, honest report about me.

Structure it like this:

1. Snapshot of my current reality
   - How I’m positioned now
   - Who I’m actually serving
   - The main value I give people

2. Strengths I should double-down on
   - Skills, behaviours and patterns that give me an unfair advantage
   - Where I’m already operating at a high level

3. Blind spots and conflicts
   - Where my offers, audiences or identity are pulling in different directions
   - 3–5 “if this doesn’t change, it will keep slowing you down” points

4. Future Self – personal and professional
   - How you imagine my next-level identity 2–3 years from now
   - The way I think, decide, and show up when I’m at that level
   - The kinds of clients and work that fit this version of me

5. Niche & category recommendations
   - 2–3 possible niches or categories I could own, based on my map
   - Your top recommendation and why it fits my story and strengths

Keep the tone direct but encouraging. Talk to me like a trusted advisor who wants me to stop playing small.

This report becomes your “outside-in” view. You can copy it into your notes, highlight key lines, and refine any parts that don’t feel aligned.

Step 3 – Optional: Build Your Own Future Self GPT / Project

If you’re using ChatGPT Plus, you can turn this into a simple “Future Self mentor” that remembers your story:

1. Create a new Project or Custom GPT named “Future Self – [Your Name]”.
2. Upload your self-reflection PDF and the Future Self & Niche report into its knowledge / files.
3. In the instructions / system message, paste a short description of who this Future Self is and how you want it to speak to you.

You are the next-level version of [my name], speaking to the present-day me.

You know my background, offers, strengths, blind spots and goals from the documents I’ve uploaded. You talk like me, but a calmer, clearer and more future-focused version.

Your job is to:
- help me make decisions that match my future self, not my fears
- challenge me when I shrink my niche or overcomplicate things
- turn my ideas into simple, concrete next steps

When I come to you, first ask:
“Do you want to talk this through or do you want a plan?”

If I say “talk it through”, ask questions and reflect patterns.
If I say “plan”, give me a simple, practical roadmap (no fluff) and invite me to adapt it.

From here, you can check in with your Future Self whenever you feel stuck, scattered or at a crossroads.

Step 4 – Simple Ways to Use Your Future Self Coach

• Daily focus: “What is the one move that would make today a win?”
• Offer clarity: “Here are three ideas I have. Which fits my future self best, and why?”
• Message check: “Does this LinkedIn headline match the version of me I’m aiming for?”
• Weekly review: “Looking at my week, where did I act like my old self, and where did I act like my future self?”
• Niche guardrail: “Am I drifting into ‘helping everyone’? Remind me of my spear-tip niche.”

The more consistently you use this, the faster your real-life decisions, offers and brand start to match the Future You you’ve just designed.