Something is happening to the world — and it’s happening faster than we think.
I recently attended Singularity University in Palo Alto, and what I learned there genuinely shocked me:
The power of AI is doubling every 3.3 months.
Let’s break that down.
If something doubles every three months, it becomes 16 times more powerful in one year. In two years, it’s 256 times more powerful. And in five years, thanks to exponential growth, it will become a million times more powerful.
That means the AI you’re using today — whether it’s ChatGPT or an AI assistant embedded into your workflow — is not just a glimpse of the future. It’s a tiny fragment of what’s coming.
A million times more powerful in five years.
This is why people on the edge of technology are making predictions that seem almost absurd.
Bill Gates recently predicted that the two-day workweek will become the norm.
Elon Musk, speaking in the Middle East, said we are about to enter an era not just of universal basic income — but universal high income. With AI, robotics, and agentic systems, global GDPs could increase by 7x.
This changes everything.
It changes what jobs will exist. It changes how we get paid. It changes where we live. And most importantly, it changes how we set our goals.
Why I had to rethink my entire approach to goal-setting
In a world where billion-dollar companies are being built by teams of less than five… Where everyone works from wherever they want… Where working hours collapse from 50 hours a week to 15 or less…
I had to take a hard look at the way I set goals.
I realized many of my own goals had become… obsolete.
For years, I had goals like:
- Build one of the most beautiful office spaces in the world
- Hire thousands of people
- Scale team operations globally
But in the world we’re entering… These no longer serve me. Or how people want to be employed
So I re-evaluated. I reflected.
And I rewrote my goals from scratch.
I didn’t just want productivity goals. I wanted peace goals.
I didn’t just want output goals. I wanted spaciousness and opportunity.
I didn’t just want impact. I wanted authenticity.
And the result became a model I now call SOULPACT.
This is an 8-part model to help you set the right goals for a life where AI is automating the grind, and humans are free to evolve, create, and live in flow.
What is SOULPACT?
SOULPACT is an acronym for:
- Simplicity
- Opportunity
- Uniqueness
- Love
- Purpose
- Abundance
- Calm
- Time
Each pillar represents one category of goals that are essential for a high-performing, meaningful, and future-ready life.
Let’s walk through each one.
By answering the question associated with each of the SOULPACT areas, you’re likely to start thinking about your future in a way that matches how the future is really unfolding – and not stuck in career models of the past.
Ready?
1. Simplicity
In the near future, success won’t be measured by how much you juggle, but by how little you have to manage. Simplicity means removing unnecessary layers, automating what drains you, and focusing only on what matters. It’s about building businesses and careers that are elegant, efficient, and deeply human, not overwhelmed with systems, teams, and clutter. It’s working with 5 people and 10 GPTs instead of 500 people and 0 joy. It’s having the freedom to step away and trust that things run beautifully without you.
The big question: My business is only _________________.
If you’re an entrepreneur: Your business runs with 1–5 humans and a swarm of AI agents. You have systems that work without micromanagement.
If you’re a solopreneur: You run one signature offer, powered by automation and AI, and you work under 20 hours a week.
If you’re an employee: You only take roles with async workflows, minimal meetings, and outcomes-based performance.
2. Opportunity
When your calendar is packed, your life has no space for magic. Opportunity is about creating enough white space — mentally and logistically — that unexpected blessings can land. It’s being available for the spontaneous call, the brilliant collaborator, the once-in-a-decade invitation. In the AI-powered world, opportunities will multiply exponentially. Your job is to have the space and clarity to say yes to the right ones.
The big question: I create opportunity in my life by _________________.
If you’re an entrepreneur: You leave at least two days a week open — no calls, no fires to put out — just space for strategy, connection, and next-level ideas.
If you’re a solopreneur: You keep your Fridays free for growth — whether that’s travel, learning, masterminds, or just thinking.
If you’re an employee: You negotiate flex days or blocks for personal development and explore side projects with long-term potential.
3. Uniqueness
AI will soon be able to replicate almost everything… except your weirdness. Your lived experience. Your soul signature. Your humor, your perspective, your personal story — these become your most valuable assets. Uniqueness is no longer just a personal trait — it’s your economic moat, your cultural value, and your brand. This pillar is about taking what makes you un-copyable and making it central to your life and work.
The big question: I am known for my unique edge in _________________.
If you’re an entrepreneur: You lead with a story, methodology, or style that’s unmistakably yours. Clients come to you because you’re one of a kind.
If you’re a solopreneur: You monetize your weirdness. Your niche is built around your lived experience and energetic signature.
If you’re an employee: You’re the go-to person for something no one else can do, like you, and your personal brand reflects it.
4. Love (Passion)
This isn’t about romance. It’s about doing what lights you up in the world. Passion used to be something you squeezed into weekends. Now, in the AI era, where your operational burdens can be outsourced, your joy becomes your compass. Love is the source of your creativity, your contribution, and your renewal. It’s where flow begins. And often, the thing you love—the thing you’d do even without pay—is the thing that changes your life the most. The world doesn’t just need more strategy. It needs more soul.
The big question: I follow what I love by regularly _________________.
If you’re an entrepreneur: You devote 10% of your time and team capacity to passion-led projects — even if they don’t make money right away.
If you’re a solopreneur: You create one purely joyful offering a year — a retreat, a community, a piece of art — just because.
If you’re an employee: You spend one evening or weekend morning a week pursuing something that excites you, whether it’s writing, martial arts, painting, or launching that podcast.
5. Purpose
Work that doesn’t serve others eventually drains you. In a world where AI handles tasks, the human role is to uplift, inspire, and heal. Purpose is about turning your gifts into something that makes the world a little lighter, a little smarter, a little more loving. It’s about ensuring your calendar — and your career — echo beyond yourself. Because people don’t just remember what you built. They remember how you made them feel.
The big question: I contribute to the world by _________________.
If you’re an entrepreneur: You use your platform to solve problems that matter — through donations, education, or meaningful change.
If you’re a solopreneur: You give a portion of your time or income to impact causes — and your content helps elevate others.
If you’re an employee: You seek out purpose-driven companies or carve a meaningful mission within your current role.
6. Abundance
In the near future, money will flow in new ways — passive, automated, and creatively earned. Abundance is no longer about grinding harder. It’s about aligning with the flow of life and receiving with joy. It means defining how much is truly “enough” — and designing your income around ease, joy, and alignment. The new rich? They’re not the ones earning the most. They’re the ones who earn joyfully and live well.
The big question: I will earn $_____ per year in a fun and easy way by _________________.
If you’re an entrepreneur: You design your business model around recurring, passive, or high-leverage income.
If you’re a solopreneur: You license your knowledge or build scalable products so you earn while you sleep.
If you’re an employee: You upskill and negotiate roles with both salary and side income potential, from consulting, royalties, or speaking.
7. Calm
In a world that moves at machine speed, your nervous system becomes your true superpower. Calm isn’t passive — it’s potent. It gives you clarity, discernment, and presence. It helps you make better decisions and show up as your best self. When AI does the heavy lifting, your job is to be grounded, wise, and emotionally clear. Calm is the soil where all other goals grow.
The big question: I take care of my body and protect my energy by _________________.
If you’re an entrepreneur: You integrate nervous system care into your workweek — from breathwork to off-grid days.
If you’re a solopreneur: You schedule calm as part of your productivity stack, with rituals that restore and realign.
If you’re an employee: You build boundaries and request the flexibility to protect your mornings, your mental health, and your rest.
8. Time
Time is no longer how we prove our worth. It’s how we reclaim our lives. In a world of AI-powered efficiency, time becomes your most sacred currency. You’ll work fewer hours — but with more focus, intention, and creativity. A life built around time freedom isn’t just more enjoyable. It’s more productive, more visionary, and more human. Design your week like your life depends on it. Because it does.
The big question: I only work _____ hours a week by _________________.
If you’re an entrepreneur: You work 15–20 hours a week and delegate everything outside your zone of genius.
If you’re a solopreneur: You batch your creative time and unplug for full days to restore and dream.
If you’re an employee: You negotiate a 4-day workweek or output-based contracts, and protect evenings and weekends.
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Years ago I read an Appreciative Inquiry qualitative study that was published as: The Feminine Face of God. My personal takeaway was that each of the highly spiritually mature women profiled got to be that way by asking themselves two recursive questions over and over throughout their lives and then used the answers to course-correct their life trajectories. I call them The Two Perilous Questions: https://floweringbrain.wordpress.com/2023/10/07/a-blast-from-the-past-the-two-perilous-questions/
Dear Vishen,
I want to say from the outset that I do enjoy reading your emails and getting inspiration and hearing so much about the future of AI and how it’s so changing the world. I can appreciate your thinking in needing to change your future goals, I guess you would say, as far as previously wanting big corporate office and thousands of employees. With AI you can work from home with very little employees.
However as I read this I can’t help but think about all of the service workers in the world and the medical workers in the world who probably won’t see the kind of growth that you’re thinking of with AI.
Let me expand on that. I am a registered nurse and have been one for 30 years now. I love my job and I am no longer in the fast pace hospital nursing setting that I truly loved, but now I’m doing supervisory nursing with home health aids, personal care attendants and homemakers.
I go into the homes of our clients, 95% of which are elderly and make sure that our caregivers are doing the best job that they can do in the home for these clients.
Maybe I don’t know enough about AI to see a future where I am specifically because I’m not exactly sure how AI can help an elder take a shower or change their bed linens or clean the toilets.
And outside of that I’m not sure how AI can do the work of, for example, a paramedic in the field or a waitress serving your dinner or the girl at Cumberland farms taking money for my gas and 1/2 gallon of milk.
And, oh yes, I can see how AI can assist in some of these things making tasks and charting and behind the scenes work more efficient but there still needs to be a human being doing the actual work.
Thank you for hearing me out. I just wanted to add my thoughts to this ever growing area of new technology in this ever growing global growth that we are having.
Cathy
Cathleen J Moses
Be well, Be kind, Be careful
I couldn’t attend for lack of funds. Not right now. And yet your manifestation was about it being just the time.
I was surprised to read the insight in the newsletter because it was what I needed to hear now.
I am aligned and doing what you are doing: coaching and inspiring because I am authentic. I choose to live my values and my truth and so I open the space for others to do the same, aligning them with their ways so that I, and them, don’t replicate anything. We all head out shining present in our best way. Thank you.
I’ll be 70 June 1 and recently realized I’ve been manifesting my entire adult life, before it was even a “thing”. Creating your own life didn’t have a name back then, I guess. I just visualized things, really without expectation – more of a “wouldn’t it be nice” kind of thing. And then when the visualizations materialized I would be in awe. Oh my God, this is what I’ve been thinking about.
I remember when my mom came over to see a new house my husband I bought. She asked me “Did you ever think you’d live in a house like this?” I replied “Well to be honest with you Mom, yes, almost exactly this”. She responded “I guess that’s why I didn’t have a nicer house. I never thought I would”. I didn’t really think much of that response at the time but it’s hitting me like a ton of bricks right now. Your thoughts really really matter!!
Other times, I’ve asked for direction and have gotten it immediately. And I mean being moved physically to achieve the result I was asking for. Like crazy stuff. Again, I didn’t have a name for it. I just called it being spiritually connected. And this spiritual connection, the energy of life, guides us even when we aren’t asking. It’s simply called intuition.
One time, on my way to a client, I felt confused because I didn’t understand why I felt so strongly that I had to go to certain places first. They happened to be somewhat near my client, but by “going off course” I would be late. But the feeling was overpowering, so I followed it. In doing so I was lead to a little gift shop my mom had worked in. I went inside. The person working at that time had worked with my mom so we chatted a bit. When I got outside I called my mom to tell her this person said hi. That call either saved my mother’s life, or at a minimum, saved her from significant brain injury that would have detrimentally affected her life. Really blows my mind.
That instance wasn’t so much a manifestation, but instead energy moving me because the universe had information that I didn’t. My mom was having a stroke. My mom was my life long best friend and because I allowed myself to be led, we had a decade more of time together.
I want to add how significantly gratitude affects our lives. Even when I was low income and living in public housing, I was grateful. I was grateful to be able to afford a little two bedroom house, with just a kitchen, living room and bathroom. I was beyond grateful every minute of every day for my two healthy toddler sons. And when I couldn’t afford a car, I was grateful that public transportation was available. I was grateful for grants and scholarships so that I could go to college and build a decent future for my sons. I was grateful to have vision so that I could see my beautiful sons and hearing so that I could hear their laughter. How about water? How lucky are we to turn on a faucet and water comes out? Billions of people do not have that luxury. In fact my mother didn’t when she was growing up. Her parents immigrated from Hungary and as often was the case with immigrants back in the 1920s, they lived in employee housing without electricity, without running water and with only a pot belly stove to heat the house. But my mom was always grateful for everything, so I guess that’s where I got it from.
I just retired this year and now want to focus on understanding more about manifesting. The two day seminar has been a fantastic start for me. However, I am a bit reticent to think too much about it because my life has gone so well without really thinking about it. As they say, if something broke, don’t fix it 😀. But it is fascinating so onward I go.
Blessings to all!!
Thank you.
Goal setting is important but how you set a goal as important as the goal itself. Bringing a better perspective and new filters to the process of goal setting are crucial for ones true success. Thank you for this enlightening newsletter. In fact I just set down and reevaluating my goals and my teachings around this great knowledge. Appreciated!
Hi Vishen, I attended the online Manifestation Summit two days ago. I’m an energy healer from Dubai, and I just wanted to say how much I appreciated the concept of the 8 goals. This blog post beautifully explained each one, and it really opened up new ways of thinking for me—especially in areas I hadn’t considered before. Thank you so much for the work you’re doing and for transforming so many lives. God bless you!
Yes. I remember when computers were first up and coming, and we were all excited about working fewer hours. But for the most part, that didn’t happen, at all. The important thing, which Vishen articulates so well here, is intentionality; aligning and designing our lives according to our values and soul-guided inspirations. What landed especially for me was around calm. I’ve prioritized a calm nervous system for many years now, and this sharing helped me remember that a calm grounded presence can assist earnings rather than thinking of “down time” as detracting from income potential. It’s a good example of bringing more yin, more balance, into our ways of being.
Thank you for the beautiful work you’re doing in the world.
Standing with you, and for you,
Tristan
Vishen thanks for always making me think diferent in business, I love the way your techniques make businesses align with our higher self and humanity!
Thanks loooooots ❤️ for all your transformation magic that is expanding through all the world, I admire you more than anyone ✨
I learned this soulpact technique this weekend in your Manifesting Summit (that without mistake, was THE BEST EVENT OF MY LIFE) and I’d been a little curious about how could I make a business model and business plan that align completely to my life plan… And BOOOOM! Manifested in your SOULPACT talk on the summit.
Really loved the way you exposed it with so simplicity and now I have a super power tool to align and design my business to the future.
INFINITE THAAAAANKS
With 💜, Di
Vishen, thank you so much for this post and for all that you do! I have been working with AI on a daily basis since last November and I affirm all of your insights. As I build products for the future, your “if not this, something better” has become my daily OM.
If it weren’t for you and Mind Valley, I would have given up in from the sheer pace of change in this space. Instead, I have found that every setback or delay has purpose accompanied by deep meaning. What began as a quest to disrupt WordPress has evolved into an AI empowered, life altering vision that I cannot wait to share with you and the world.