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How to Help Your Future Self
Be kind to yourself, now, and in the future
You’ve been on a journey. You’ve had your ups and downs. You’ve learned, you’ve loved, you’ve failed, and you’ve succeeded. You’ve lived.
Everything you are now, you owe it to your past self — your skills, your knowledge, your habits (good and bad), your health, your connections, your wealth, and your happiness.
Perhaps you could even write a letter to your past self to express your gratitude for all the benefits you are reaping now.
Of course, you could also express your disapproval for the bad behavior, the bad habits that you engaged in, for which now, you have to pay the consequences — all that partying, the junk food, the wasted time binge-watching tv, etc.
You should actually write that letter as a mental exercise. It would be surprisingly revealing. Refer to him/her in the third person. S/He is not you, he is somebody else. Think of him as a friend you used to look up to, as an old role model.
You’re probably thinking: “What’s the point of all this?”
The point of this mental exercise is to realize than in 5 years, there will be a future you and he’ll have to live with the consequences of the decisions you are making right now.
