Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy

This isn’t a book about BECOMING it’s about BEING: noted psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy shows how to imagine the person you want to be, then BE that person now. When you do this, your imagined FUTURE directs your behavior, rather than your past.

Who is your Future-Self?

That question may seem trite. But it’s literally the answer to all of your life’s questions. It’s the answer to what you’re going to do today. It’s the answer to how motivated you are, and how you feel about yourself. It’s the answer to whether you’ll distract yourself on social media for hours, whether you’ll eat junk food, and what time you get up in the morning.

Your imagined Future-Self is the driver of your current reality. It is up to you to develop the ability to imagine better and more expansive visions of your Future-Self.

Your current view of your Future-Self is very limited. If you seek learning, growth, and new experiences, you’ll be able to imagine a different and better Future-Self than you currently can.

It’s not only useful to see your Future-Self as a different person from who you are today, but it is also completely accurate. Your Future-Self will not be the same person you are today. They will see the world differently. They’ll have had experiences, challenges, and growth you currently don’t have. They’ll have different goals and priorities. They’ll have different habits. They’ll also be in a different world—a world with different cultural values, different technologies, and different challenges.

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- Research now shows that a person's past does not drive or dictate their actions and behaviors. Rather, we are pulled forward by our future.

- .... In addition to being driven primarily by fear, the average person is mostly driven by short-term goals such as distracting themselves with social media instead of working, getting to the end of the workday, getting to the weekend or paying the bills ....

- ... The clearer you are on where you want to go, the less distracted you'll be by endless options......

- .... Memento Mori is an ancient Stoic term for keeping death always on your mind to fully value and appreciate this moment......

- .... Covey, said, "Mental creation always precedes physical creation." ......

- While Freud and Adler emphasized a person's past as the central aspect of their development, Frankle focused on a person's future as the central aspect of their psychology.....

- ..... Friedrich Nietsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." ..... The most fundmental threat to a person's Future Self is not the loss of freedom but the absence of purpose and meaning ..... Lose the purpose for your future and you die in the present.....

- Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face - Mike Tyson.

- Trauma is no what happens to us, but what hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness ..... Whatever punches life gives to you, your past is just a story. Whatever story you choose for your past enormously impacts your present and your future ..... The stories of our lives, far from being fixed narratives, are under constant revision ...

- Your pain can fuel your purpose and lead you to help others. This is what psychologists call post-traumatic growth....

- ... psychologists found that people prefer things, not because of internal reasons, but simply because they've been repeatedly exposed to them. This idea is known as the mere-exposure effect.....

- Mindfulness is the skill of becoming aware of your context, and how that context influences you. What is the context you're in?

- The more you invest in long-term rewards, the clearer your Future Self becomes.....

- .... Dr. Wayne Dyer said, "When you change the way you see things, the things you see change."

- Einstein said, "Insanity is doing the same thing pver and over and expecting a different result .....

- In order to be in a flow state, it is essential to focus on one goal at a time ....

- When you see your Future Self as a different person, you don't get stuck or dogmatic in your current way of thinking.... appreciate how temporary your current perspectives, attributes, and situation are .... your current self is radically temporary and fleeting. You'll even be different tomorrow ...

- Companies that succeed at the absolute highest level have no more than three core objectives they're trying to accomplish.......

-Dr. Stephen Covey said, "To know and not to do is really not to know."

- Every day you'll live with more intention and commitment. You'll weed out lesser goals. You'll have a more definite attitude about your Future Self........ Life will teach you more than you expect ..... Being is the first step of doing. Do what your Future Self will do. Know that what you want is already yours. Commit 100 percent to your desired Future Self. Remove lesser goals .......

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