If nothing matters anyway and you have no hope of improving your circumstances, why do anything? Why put forth any effort whatsoever? Without hope in the possibility of creating a better future, you will lose any motivation to take action now. If nothing matters in the future, why would you think anything matters now?

You’ll stop associating pain with the work and changes required for your goals. Instead, you’ll associate pain with not making progress toward your dreams. You’ll associate pain with the short-term dopamine hits that were once your escape. You’ll be far more courageous High-hope person, like Frankl himself, remains committed 100 percent to a pursuit, and 100 percent flexible around the path to achieve their goal I think it makes a perfect companion with his other book, “the Gap and the Gain” which he wrote with Dan Sullivan. They should include both of these books in college psychology classes.

7 Steps for Being Your Future Self

Hope is the way because to have hope, you either see a way to realise your goal, or are flexible enough to create a way. When hope exists, there is always a way. Hope does not consider the odds. You don't have to wait for some distant day to be the person you love being. In fact, if you're always "trying" to become your Future Self, you'll never get there. You'll always be your current self, trying to become someone else. But if you are your Future Self now, you don't have to wait. The most fundamental threat to a person’s Future Self is not the loss of freedom but the absence of purpose and meaning.” To finish, you release your imperfect work. You send your art into the world. You market. And you ship more This was also reflected in results from functional MRI scans, which offered some intriguing evidence that, at the neural level, we really do start to think of our future selves as a different person. Besides considering themselves at various points in the future, the participants were also asked to think about a stranger, such as the politician Angela Merkel. As the participants moved further along the timeline – imagining themselves from around six months onwards – the brain activity concerning themselves started to resemble the response to thoughts of the politician.

The 4th Threat to your Future Self is not being connected to them. You will not be able to proactively create the life you want if you’re not connected to your Future Self. What could you simplify and eliminate from your life, to free yourself from decision fatigue and lesser goals? External factors are absolutely not what determines if a person is successful or not. Only that a person lives in alignment with their own aims.Most schedules are dominated by urgent battles and lesser goals such as meetings and Zoom calls. Rarely does someone’s schedule reflect and prioritise their Future Self over their current self. The following are seven steps that will allow you to embrace your future self now and use the power of this vision to achieve your goals: Everything you do has a compounding consequence. Your Future Self is the exaggerated result of your current decisions.” Commitment is a statement of what “is.” You can know what you’re committed to by your results, not by what you say your commitments are. We are all committed. We are all producing results. The result is proof of a commitment.

THREAT #2: A Reactive Narrative About Your Past Stunts Your Future “We reinterpret or reconstruct our memory in light of what our mental set is in the present. In this sense, it is more accurate to say the present causes the meaning of the past, than it is to say that the past causes the meaning of the present." -Brent Slife

Threats to Your Future Self

In this frenetic nightmare, you feel there is no control or escape from a downward spiral. Without hope, motivation is impossible. You can’t be motivated toward action or outcome with zero hope in its possibility.

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.” THREAT #3: Being Unaware of Your Environment Creates a Random Evolution “If you’re around people who have low expectations for you, you'll fall to those standards. If you're around people with high expectations, you'll rise to those standards." People who wish to gain clarity and focus, and who want a step-by-step plan for taking control of their life's trajectory and pulling themselves towards the accomplishment of their biggest goals We all have a future ahead of us. In 10 years, 20 years, and more, we will become our Future Selves.The same can be said of the person living a quiet simple life, that doesn’t have fame, money, prestige, or any of the things we often consider as success. If that person is living the life they truly want to live, then they are absolutely successful. When you were outside the arena, you may not have felt like you were failing. But every day you sit on the sidelines, you fail by default.