It is crucial, therefore, to move from short-term reactive goals to more thoughtful, positive, long-term ones. His approach to parenting his youngest child is more nuanced than his approach to raising his eldest children. When we are disconnected from our future selves, we tend to default to the urgent demands of everyday life. It is geared towards the entrepreneur but honestly anyone in any walk of life could benefit from this.

The book identifies seven threats that can derail your Future Self as well as seven core truths about your Future Self that you need to know. This goes into the idea that we can't even imagine what our future selves will want for their future selves (future self 2.

I'm not saying his life hasn't had difficulties, and I admire his accomplishments, but it's shortsighted to not acknowledge that being male, white, Christian, straight, middle class might afford access and privilege not available to others. Hardy was a freshly minted driver at the time, so volunteered to take the wheel and let his mom rest.

In the audiobook, Hardy did add an afterward a year after publishing in which he shared some good info about how our goals for our future selves shift over time. But Dr Benjamin Hardy takes it further with threats to your future self, truths about your future self and 7 steps for being your future self. Instead of crafting a future self driven by fear and insecurity, you can safely create guided by gratitude and trust.

Be Your Future Self Now has made me think many times throughout the last few days about what my future self would wish I was doing now. You have everything you need to create your desired life and all of the answers you need lie within you. Design your behaviors so that the future you will reap the benefits, rather than pay for the cost of poor choices, with interest. It's not only useful to see your Future Self as a different person from who you are today, but it is also essential.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These self-dubbed “positive psychologists” provided an almost polar opposite explanation for human behavior: that human beings weren’t pushed by their past; they were pulled by their future. I would humbly recommend reading this once and getting yourself familiar with the idea of "Be your future self now". While Hardy’s family struggled to talk about the accident for several years, his mom chose to frame the incident as a pivotal moment that clarified her purpose in life: raising her three boys. I actually found this one on Audible a couple of months ago and decided to save it to listen to on our annual end-of-year beach trip.The most fundamental threat to a person’s Future Self is not the loss of freedom but the absence of purpose and meaning.

Belief you have control over what you do, that your actions matter, and you can impact the results in your life.He drove attentively, but could never have known that just ahead, a long stretch of construction barrier had fallen out of place. When you change your committed vision, your identity immediately changes, which in turn, immediately changes the flow of your thoughts and behaviors.