Snippets of Motivation: Your Future, Your Choice

Your future self resides in your hands.

If he/she is successful, define success as you want, then it is one hundred percent because of you, and if he/she is confused, stuck, stressed, or down, even that is because of you.

Your future resides in the choices you make. Your future self talks about you based on the actions you took today, not just the ideas you had, but how you showed up on those ideas today.

Hi all!

Welcome to this new series where I share bite-sized, straight-to-the-point motivations for you. Each post is here to give your day a fresh start and a clearer mindset.

Let’s take on the day, one powerful thought at a time.

Ever since I started making Vision Boards or even delusional goals, I wondered what that reality would be like where I have met all those goals.

But it is really not about that reality at all; it is about this one. Once you have achieved all that you wanted, you will and should aim higher and higher and be on those journeys. But to get there, you need actions today and every day, to be better each day, to gain that mindset, that vibrational frequency, that attitude, that perseverance, that ideal personality to even be able to handle those dreams and realities. And building that starts today.

Just hanging a bunch of photos or writing down your goals won’t get you that dream personality or reality, even manifestation’s key step is RIGHT ACTION.

This isn’t a blog where I explain to you how to take action for your respective goals. Nor is it for you, if you haven’t made any solid goals (WRITE THEM DOWN NOW). It is for those who have made those goals, written those actionables, and yet for some reason aren’t able to follow through.

Your Ideal life is waiting for you to gear up and claim it.

ASK YOURSELF WHAT DOES YOUR FUTURE SELF DO?

This is a crucial step. If your goal is or your future self looks and feels fit, then Every time you are sitting in front of your tv, procrastinating on going to the gym or craving a donut when you already had 10 (I guess you wont be craving it anymore or I hope not) ask yourself what would my future, ideal, dream self will do in this scenario. Will he/she give in to temptation, laziness, or some emotions passing through their body, or will he/she take those actions promised to oneself?

It is just another way of being disciplined for the life you want.

You can achieve the goals set out for you only when you show up like you already got them. That’s not only some manifestation trick; it is discipline. Unless you train your body and mind to accept and adjust as per the changes you want in your life, nothing will truly change.

You can’t repeat all that you have been doing throughout your life and expect to become or live any differently than your current reality. Remember all that you are today, the way you think, act, behave, or the things you experience are all a direct result of your past choices and actions. And that means you have all the power right now to change that if you are not happy with where you are, or improve if you are there already.

This trick works for me every single time. “HOW WOULD MY FUTURE/IDEAL SELF ACT LIKE RIGHT NOW?”

If my goal is to get toned, or become a millionaire, or start my own business, why would I be waking up at 12 pm, sitting in front of the TV, sleeping, eating all the junk in the world, or simply recite affirmations and not work on the mindsets needed to get there?

Another excuse I often give myself, and I am sure you, reading this give it too, is “The situation/event/reality is too hard to act otherwise”. Maybe you are going through a financial crunch, or are unemployed, or have constant fights with your roommates, maybe the environment you are in is toxic, maybe the career that you pursued is taking time to show results, maybe the business you started failed, all of these are big fat truths and facts about your current reality, but if you carry it with you into the next second of your future or even fixate on it so much so that it translates into your personality i.e “I am broke” or “I am failed business owner” etc, then my friend that’s going to be your reality in the coming years as well.

Your current reality can never be your identity. And if it is, then I am afraid that’s always going to hold you back somehow.

Remember, you have all the power to change your narrative and thereby change your reality.

Just ask yourself, is this how my future self handles this situation?

Go, research ways in which you can grow out of it. Find ways to solve instead of fixating on problems.

Start with a mindset. Ask how your future self walks, talks, lives, carries out the task, what’s his/her daily routine like, how does he/she deal with adversities, and start acting like that today.

With every action or inaction that you take, ask yourself how will my future self respond here?

Thank you so much for reading,

Catch you in my next one!