Why Your Future Self is Key to Goal Achievement

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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You started out the new year excited about your goals, but now you find yourself lagging. You’re tired and your motivation is waning. You’re starting to wonder, How do I keep going? The answer? Focus on your future self. In this episode, Megan and Michael discuss the power of creating a compelling vision of who you want to become. They’ll help you create a vision script that sustains you for the long haul and show you how to accomplish that vision one choice at a time. In this episode, you’ll discover— Why the gap between where you are and where you want to be can be a powerful motivator How to start practicing being your future self as you make daily decisions The reason re-examining your identity will get you further, faster Why mental dissonance can be the unlikely key to achieving your goals Resources: Four Mindsets to Drive Your Success Living Forward by Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt This episode is brought to you by the Lifescore Assessment, a free tool that gives you the clarity to set better goals and build toward the future you want. Download it for free at leadto.win/lifescore. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by the LifeScore Assessment, a free tool that gives you the clarity to set better goals and
0:07.4	Build toward the future that you want. Download it for free at lead2.win slash LifeScore
0:17.4	Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt and I'm Megan Hyatt Miller and this is lead to win our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life
0:24.7	And today we're talking about focusing on your future self and how that can shape your goal achievement and change the trajectory of your life
0:36.9	Yeah, I love this topic because I think we're kind of at that part of the year when we're recording this
0:42.5	It's early February when you know those of you sickles you might be feeling a little bit of waning on your motivation
0:50.0	You may be feeling or whining or whining
0:52.7	A little disconnection from your whining or motivation and all the things that got you into that and you're wondering
1:00.6	Okay, like what's gonna get me going? Am I gonna give up or am I gonna go forward and I've been thinking about this lately
1:06.0	One of the best ways that we can propel ourselves toward the things that matter to us in the future goals and so forth
1:12.8	Is to develop a compelling vision for who we're gonna be when we accomplish this goal
1:18.7	You know, what does it mean when we've accomplished this who am I and use that as a
1:24.0	Shepard's crook if you will to pull us into the future where instead of kind of being
1:28.4	Yanked back to our past and wanting to stay in alignment with who we've been in the past
1:32.1	We really feel motivated by the gap between where we are today and where we are in the future
1:37.3	To go toward that future self and start acting and behaving like the person we want to become
1:42.3	So I think this is very relevant to where we are in the year and I think this is gonna be fun topic
1:46.5	Well, this really ties in with something we so often talk about and something I've so often written on and that is vision
1:53.1	But in this particular case, we're not talking about the vision for your company first and foremost
1:58.0	But a vision for yourself right and in other words forget who you are at this moment
2:03.7	think about who you could become and
2:06.4	When I first did this was back in about the year
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