Instead, say hello to your future self and get ready to become more than a collection of half-hearted, New Year’s goals could ever offer. And enjoy a clear path to the expansive, abundant you by heeding the steps to becoming your future self – for example, systemizing success and prioritizing completion over perfection. Before I share my thoughts, I feel compelled to note that I gravitate toward books that push me to work harder and improve my life overall - from motherhood and family life, to health and wellness, business, physical fitness, and financial health - I enjoy reading about overall improvement. After discussing his financial goals, Hardy was advised to set up an automatic weekly payment to his investment account.

They'll also be in a different world--a world with different cultural values, different technologies, and different challenges. Viktor Frankl, whom Hardy quotes liberally in this book himself wrote, "Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. It encourages you to be bold and specific in your vision of your Future Self, as this can influence your life here and now. As author, spiritual leader, and political activist Marianne Williamson said, “Your playing small does not serve the world.Becoming your desired future self involves aligning yourself with people who can help you get there. You’re probably familiar with the famous passage from Theodore Roosevelt that stated, “It is not the critic who counts.

Failure, however, will accelerate the learning curve and send you flying toward your goals faster than you could have imagined. I would humbly recommend reading this once and getting yourself familiar with the idea of "Be your future self now". Renowned psychologist Dr Benjamin Hardy will show you how to allow your imagined Future Self to be the driver of your current reality so that you can change in unbelievable ways. I wonder what Frankl would think of Hardy's use of his work to support Hardy's material views of success.Benjamin Hardy is an American organizational psychologist and coauthor of The Gap and The Gain and Who Not How. We need to get into the arena and start taking action, rather than remaining stuck in analysis paralysis. For me, "Be Your Future Self Now" stands out in the crowded self-help selections, offering an authentic blend of motivation, science, and actionable strategies.

The author packs so much into this book that I think I will need to read it 3 times to extract the riches from it. Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now! The book delves into the importance of committing to one's goals, eliminating distractions, and aligning one's actions with their future self. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,” he went on, “who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again. One thing that didn’t resonate with me at all was in the beginning where he talked about how sad his future self would be that the current time is gone, and how his future self would give anything for just one more moment now.This is especially poignant because he draws quotes so liberally from historical figures without his privileges. The first few chapters started off okay but the further he argues for his point of view, the shakier it gets.

But doing so will be hard to swallow when you’re on your deathbed, reflecting on what otherwise could have been. 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. It is geared towards the entrepreneur but honestly anyone in any walk of life could benefit from this. In Hardy’s case, he did this by setting up an automatic payment from his bank account to his investment account every Monday. If we want to take a creative role in developing an ideal future state, we need to establish a compelling vision for that future.To get yourself on the fast track to your future self, first acknowledge that who you’ll be in ten years is different from who you are today.