Remember Your Future Self

We are called to be architects of the future,
not its victims.
- Buckminster Fuller

The future is a place we are all traveling towards, but many of us spend very little time planning for. From financial planning to personal fitness to family relationships, long term goals can be difficult to imagine and even more difficult to act upon.

To architect your future means to stretch out the timeline and take specific actions that will impact not only your future well-being, but the well-being of those who will come after you.

At first this kind of long-term thinking might feel like a luxury when all you are really trying to do is get by day-to-day - but the paradox is that many of your day-to-day struggles are caused because you are not thinking far enough into the future.

Remembering Your Future Self is not just about imagining how your life will look three weeks from now, but also daring to think about your legacy three decades from now or even three centuries from now. The concept of centuries of impact might sound ridiculous at first, but recognizing and acknowledging your potential power to impact the future brings tremendous power into your current timeframe.

1). Long-term thinking keeps you from wasting time in the present on meaningless projects.

2). Long-term thinking provides you with patience and staying power.

3). Long-term thinking gives motivational energy to small compounding habits.

4). Long-term thinking prevents you from jumping on passing fads.

5). Long-term thinking helps to put current problems and challenges in their proper perspective.

6). Long-term thinking connects you to younger generations.

7). Long-term thinking helps build families and institutions that stand the test of time.

8). Long-term thinking allows big challenges to be addressed.

9). Long-term thinking sparks better allocation of resources.

10). Long-term thinking gives meaning to short-term sacrifices.

It’s not easy to take the long-term perspective, but the benefits of facing the future with calmness and courage make Remembering Your Future Self the most powerful launch pad for reaching your ROCKET Goals.