3808: Honoring Your Future Self by Steve Pavlina on Intentional Living

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3808: Steve Pavlina shares how envisioning an honorable future self became a guiding force in transforming his life from chaos to character. Rather than forcing change through willpower, he illustrates how emotional alignment with a future version of yourself can create deeper motivation and clarity in daily decision-making. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/02/honoring-your-future-self/ Quotes to ponder: "When you make important decisions, think about which direction would honor your future self." "When you create a vision of your future self that feels good to you, you won’t want to betray that vision. You’ll want to move towards it." "This desire to honor your future self enables you to commit to bigger challenges and expect that you’ll follow through." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.7	This is Optimal Living Daily. Honoring your future self by Steve Pavlina of stevepavina.com. And I'm your narrator, Justin Mollick. Welcome back or welcome for the first time
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1:11.9	Honoring Your Future Self by Steve Pavlina of
1:15.2	stevepavlina.com
1:16.6	This is my 61st day in a row of blogging, so I'm flowing along nicely with the daily
1:24.1	blogging challenge for this year.
1:26.3	My biggest concern with this challenge
1:27.9	isn't that I'll intentionally skip a day or give up. I'm more concerned with
1:32.8	accidentally missing a day, especially since I like to blog with the flow of inspiration,
1:38.1	which often means writing at different times each day. It feels good to honor this challenge.
1:43.7	Most days it's no problem, but I will say that it isn't easy to do this every day. It feels good to honor this challenge. Most days it's no problem, but I will say that
1:46.6	it isn't easy to do this every day. Some days I get pretty busy, but I'm never tempted to skip it.
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