Dear Future Self
The Angry Therapist Podcast
John Kim
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, John reads an old letter he wrote to his future self. The letter contains reminders about what his past has taught him, how important practicing gratitude is, the difference between chasing your goals and pursing your goals, how to dream big, and more.
Roughly ten minutes of self help in a shot glass. If you're looking for a wine glass, you've come to the wrong place. Marriage family therapist and best-selling author, John Kim, shares his life and love revelations as well as insights from his sessions. He pulls the curtain back and documents his journey as a therapist but more importantly, as a human being.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is John Kim. I'm a therapist who went through his own |
| 0:04.3 | rebirth many years ago and I've been documenting my journey ever since sharing my life |
| 0:08.9 | lessons and revelations. I believe in casual or clinical with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose |
| 0:16.2 | because self-help doesn't have to be so complicated. I wrote this years ago and I am putting it in this episode for you to hopefully |
| 0:31.2 | share to a friend if you feel that it's been helpful. |
| 0:34.0 | It's called Dear Future Self and they're just reminders for ourselves today |
| 0:41.0 | because it's easy to forget. Wherever you're at in your life, as long as |
| 0:47.9 | you are alive, here are a few important reminders your past has taught you. |
| 0:54.6 | Number one, quit chasing. |
| 0:56.9 | There's a difference between pursuing your goals |
| 0:59.0 | and being in a constant state of chase. You've been doing this most of your life and it causes nothing but |
| 1:06.4 | anxiety and feeling less than. You know this. Stop fighting or forcing the |
| 1:11.8 | current. Instead let it take you. |
| 1:15.0 | Let go of the rock. |
| 1:17.0 | Let the river of life take you where you're meant to go. |
| 1:22.0 | Things will happen when they're meant to happen, when they're supposed |
| 1:25.3 | to happen. Do the best you can each day and be okay with it. Knowing as long as you're |
| 1:31.6 | moving, your path will unfold. |
| 1:35.0 | So I say quit chasing because most of my life, |
| 1:40.0 | I would it pause on life and chase. |
| 1:46.8 | I do believe in working hard. I do believe in |
| 1:55.4 | visualizing and seeing the kind of life that you want. But at some point you also have to let go. At some point you have to allow things greater than you to take you where you're meant to go. |
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