Glimmers of your future self
Do you ever catch glimmers of your future self in other people?
This might sound like:
- “How amazing is that person! I would love to do what they are doing.”
- “Wow – look at how that person does their hair. I love that!”
- “Holy cow – I can’t believe they just said that. I would love to be able to communicate that way!”
- “No they didn’t! That was so bold. If only I could do something like that.”
And so on.
We can do lots of things with these moments.
At our most destructive, we can hit the comparison button and pull ourselves down into the pit by:
- Making ourselves feel bad that we aren’t that way
- Telling ourselves that we will never be that way
- Retreating from whatever it is that we are trying because it’s nowhere even close to how that other person is
- Rejecting the other person because seeing them makes us feel bad
At our most self-empowered, we can take these moments as signals from our future selves about what really matters to us. From here, we can:
- Use it as inspiration and proof that what we really long for is possible
- Take it as information about the direction we want to move in
- Take notes about how this person got there
- Feel grateful for whatever it is we do have that can help us take the next step
- Take the next step
This is a powerful shift, and one that takes practice. We can hold a lot of inner conditioning that makes thinking and living this way hard.
The good news: It doesn’t need to stay hard.
The catch: we have to be willing and able to try something new.
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