Letter+to+self

LETTER TO YOURSELF Have you ever wanted to travel back in time? What about travel into the future? There’s an easy way to do it…well sort of. One way the you of the present can make a time travel journey is by writing a letter to your future self to be opened in the future.

To your future self, the letter will be a visit from the past.

What can be gained by writing a letter to yourself? Depends on how good your letter is. **You have the opportunity to say something to your future self**. What would you want to communicate?

There are a lot of things you could include in your letter or letters to yourself. The more you include, the more beneficial the letter will be to you.
 * What to Include in Your Letter **

Here are some //ideas// of things to include in your letter:
 * Where you are at in your life and where you want to be, MUST INCLUDE your future occupation.
 * Your current likes and dislikes
 * Your goals
 * Your dreams
 * Places you want to see
 * Where you want to live
 * The type of person you want yourself to become
 * Add things you want to stop, continue, and start doing
 * Give yourself advice (Be nice to...., don't worry so much, save money, etc.)
 * Ask yourself questions (Do you still want to be a...., what is most important in your life?

<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;">Be creative with what you put in your letter. If you have an electronic picture of yourself, bring it in and then you can add it to your letter. If you don’t have an electronic picture, bring a printed picture and it can be added to your envelope.

<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;">**LETTER FORMAT:** May use any of the following formats <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;">1. [|Friendly Letter Format] <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;">2. [|Business Letter] (aka Block letter, see example in 7th grade assignments) <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;">3. [|Another sample of friendly letter]


 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;">School Address: LVMS **
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;"> 536 Bell Street **
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;"> Ligonier, PA 15658 **

<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;">USE THIS AS THE RETURN ADDRESS.

<span style="font-family: &#39;Arial Rounded MT Bold&#39;,&#39;sans-serif&#39;; font-size: 16px;">Senders address is your HOME mailing address. If you don't know this, see Mrs. Saxton and she will look it up for you.

Create and print or save an envelope
If you want to use an address in the electronic address book installed on your computer, click **Insert Address**
 * 1) On the **Mailings** tab, in the **Create** group, click **Envelopes**.
 * 2) In the **Delivery address** box, type the mailing address.

3. If you want to format the text, select the text, right-click the selected text, and then click **Font** on the shortcut menu. 4. In the **Return address** box, type the return address or use the preconfigured one. If you want to use an address in the electronic address book installed on your computer, click **Insert Addres** 5. If you want to keep the return address for future use, but you don't want to include it on the current envelope, select the **Omit** check box.

Word adds the envelope to the current document as Page 1. If you want, you can use the rest of the document for typing correspondence that will automatically be stored with the envelope. To print the envelope, insert an envelope in the printer as shown in the **Feed** box on the **Printing Options** tab in the **Envelope Options** dialog box, click **Add to Document**, and then click **Print**.
 * If you want to print the envelope without saving it for reuse, insert an envelope in the printer as shown in the **Feed** box, and then click **Print**.
 * If you want to save the envelope for reuse, click **Add to Document**, and then click the **Microsoft Office Button**, click **Save As**, and type a name for the document.
 * Note** If you want to print the envelope without printing the rest of the document, enter Page 1 in the Print dialog box. In the **Page range** section of the **Print** dialog box, click **Pages**, and then type **1** in the **Pages** box.