Future Self Book

What are you doing right now to make sure you obtain what you want to achieve now.

Planning stage:

They haven’t planned out what they need to do daily to obtain where they want to go.

Act in the way your future self would right now. But you can’t do that until you understand who they are. and how they think.

What cities have you always been drawn to. Ask yourself why you are attracted to it. Would you be comfortable in something else. Ask yourself questions in all areas

1. your self

2. Money

3. Job

4. Opportunties

5. Family

6. friends

7. romantic relationships

8. House

9. Hobbies / happiness

10. Leisure

Check list of all your goals

Look at those goals and turn it into a weekly plan. 

Mindset chapter:

Having the right mindset makes sure you push through

Think about your future as much as possible. Future memories, thinking about it like its’ already happened. 

Shift from the child position to adult mindset. Adult mindset will do everything you 

we are all slaves to various things, habits, things, desires. Whats in command you or your desires / urges. Be skeptical over the things that have huge power over you.

When you have an emotion detach from it, and question where this emotion is coming from.

There’s different levels of seeing your future self.

You can’t change yourself if you don’t look at yourself first. Look at who you really are first

Future writing, writing the day, date and time and write down your situation of that goal being completed

Everyday you are different from who you were yesterday. You identify as someone new, and it is easy to know what they do and don’t do

Why do we make the decisions that our future selves often regret?

The rate of change goes down as we age. We walk around with this belief that we have become who we are going to be right now and that’s it

change doesn't go down as much as we think. “The end of history” Illusion.

The ease of remember but the hard work to imagine. We are more likely to indulge in the things we like right now because we can’t imagine what it might look like. 

Everyone finds themselves stuck in their fantasies. Reality seems boring and ugly. Fantasy and illusion has its place but you also can get lost in it.