RULE #1: Take a Ten-Year Trip. When you think about the future, focus your imagination ten years out. A ten-year timeline will lift the ceiling on your imagination and give you that magical feeling of “time spaciousness.” It will help you open your mind, take in new information, reduce your blind spots, increase your empathy, set more optimistic go

When you see yourself as capable of doing positive things in a future scenario, you build a positive emotional connection with yourself. And this teaches your brain to treat your future self less like a stranger, someone you hardly know and don’t care about at all, and more like someone you know well and love. “Future me is amazing!”

“How bad would that really be?”