Future self

What is up and welcome back to Working Hard.

We have made it to part three of the Future Self series, which means that we have covered the plan to get to where you want to get to in your life, what your kind of dream life looks like.

We've covered how to execute it by deep diving on specific areas of your life.

And now we're zooming out to look at the systems and as part of that, the people around you, because I really do believe that who and what's around you either carries your plan forward or completely dismantles it, often without you even noticing or without you even knowing that that's one area that your life is actually not where you want it to be.

That if you want something badly enough and you work hard enough you'll get there regardless of who is in your corner.

And I think actually in recent years I've really realised that I just don't think that's true.

I think your circle is genuinely one of the most powerful variables in whether your future self-plan actually comes to life.

And yet it's one that most of us have often never been intentional about.

This is where I think delay becomes a problem of identity.

We speak of the future self, as though that person were obviously us.

But psychologically, the future version of you can become faint enough to resemble a relative you respect and rarely visit, much like a grandparent.

They inherit the debt, the fatigue, the consequences, the apology.

What is up and welcome back to Working Hard.

If you are new here, a PSA that we are now deep into the Future Self series, which is a series I'm releasing across my entire maternity leave.

But basically it's all about reverse engineering the exact life you want.

So we're starting at the end.

We are working backwards.

We have been going through topic by topic on the specific things that you need to do to get there, to have your ideal plan for the type of life you want to build for yourself.

Obviously, if you're a regular and you've been following along each week and have stuck with me this far, both me and your future self thanks you.

But for today's episode, we are going to be diving into the topic which makes a lot of us squirm, but you know I will not stop speaking about on this podcast, and that is money.

My desires find me.

I believe what my future self believes.

My future self is already living my dreams.

I think the thoughts of the person I am becoming I see through the eyes of my greatest future self I act as the person who already has it I live from the end The life I imagine is already real I am becoming who I was always meant to be I step into my future with confidence My future is bright Tomorrow's success is pulling me forward today I merge with my highest timeline.

My destiny is calling, and I say yes.

Each day I become more of my future self.

My future self believes it and so do I. I release every belief that was too small for me.

I outgrow old patterns with grace.

Um, and, um, also adding on that neuroscience piece of understanding wh- such a- when you're making decisions like that, like, what, what your current state is in, your emotional state that you're in at that moment, and are you thinking of yourself in the present.

You know, you talk about this, in that present state, are you imagining, like, your future self-

Mm-hmm

... how that decision is gonna feel waking up tomorrow.

Yes, I'm having the donut.

And then I eat it, and I move on, and I accept the crash when it happens, because I knew I was going into it.

Um, but I think that, that making decisions as your future self, it doesn't mean we postpone happiness.

I wanna be clear about that.

You don't need to have a whole plan.

For the next little while, all you need to do is to allow yourself to meet her, your future self, your higher self, the version of self you're strengthening.

The version of you who is already living from the identity you're strengthening.

Let this be a space for her.