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Advice to create a succesful future version of ourselves?

15 pointsLordarminius5 comments

Ever so often we look back in nostalgia, rue missed opportunities and regret our (bad) choices. "What advice would you give a younger version of yourself ?" e.g. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12337537) makes frequent appearance on this and many other fora. But hindsight is 20/20, regret is simply wasted time and life is lived forward not the past.So why not invert the question: What do I need to do right now to be wildly successful in 5 years?

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> What do I need to do right now to be wildly successful in 5 years?

We don't deal with the Big Problems that scare us. Take a look at the force that controls every thought, feeling, and emotion in your life. Look for the weed, rip it out.

On this subject, Tony Robbins is brilliant > http://fortune.com/2016/07/18/tony-robbins-netflix-documenta...

Read this book https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-eboo... it's all about how to build a succesful future version of yourself.

I've been reading about building good habits and learning discipline lately and have been using those techniques to push myself towards a successful future. Things such as working on myself, always working hard on something (going to the gym, reading more, build more personal projects) and sticking to simple and easy routines daily. For the past month i've transitioned from waking up at 8AM to head to work to waking up at 6:30AM so that I can head to the gym before work. I know I can go to the gym after work if I want, but studies show you have way more willpower and control in the morning then evening, so I know if I wait til after work i'll come up with excuses 80% of the time to skip the gym, whereas i've only missed a scheduled workout once in the past month.

Keep building those little habits and eventually they will snowball to successful situations.

"Luck is preparation meets oppurtunity" - Forgot who said this

If I have 1825 days left to live, and afterwards my life would be passed on to another "soul", how would I live it?

This was a exercise in the "Will It Fly" book early on.

I have started doing the 5 minute journal, and the sentence on how could I have made today better really helps with this aspect. You start to notice some patterns over time, and that can help guide change.

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