Your Future Self is More Real Than You Know

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📚 Hey, good morning! Time to win.

Do you believe that you’ll wake up tomorrow?

Do you expect that you’ll live another week?

Do you think that you’ll live to see 2025?

Do you LIVE as though that’s true?

Because when you think about it, the You that exists - that WILL exist - in 2025 is almost as real as you are today.

Next year will roll around, you’ll look back at everything you’ve done and failed to do in 2024, and what you end up with will just be…

You.

You will be sum total - the aggregate - of every single choice you’ve made between now and then, whether you like it or not.

But since now is the only time when we have any real power, everything that we can do to improve the life of our future selves has to be done NOW.

The strange thing is that most people don’t even conceive of their future selves as real. They’re like a stranger. Unknown and unknowable.

Even though, at a very real certain date in the future they will BECOME the person that they’re creating through their choices at this very moment.

I’m reading a book right now called The Science of Powerful Focus, and in the book, the author talks about this study where people were instructed to imagine either themselves now, themselves in the future, or a random celebrity.

The study participants basically had the same neural activation upon imagining their future selves as they did when imagining some celebrity they’d never met and knew nothing about.

They were strangers to their future selves.

There’s another REALLY good book called Be Your Future Self Now, by Dr. Benjamin Hardy. Ignore the lame title. The book’s actually good!

I highly recommend it if you want to go deeper on all this stuff. The link above takes you to my full book breakdown (that you can read for free) with all they key ideas and takeaways in one place.

After reading that book, I’ve started thinking a lot more seriously about my Future Self and what I want to do to help him.

TODAY.

We can make our future self’s life a LOT worse, of course, but we can treat them with care and consideration as well.

We can eat better. We can get more sleep (I’m one to talk haha). We can read more (and better) books. We can challenge ourselves every day. We can spend time around inspiring, goal-driven people.

There are so many things we can do to help our future selves have better lives.

They can’t do it for themselves. We have to do it for them. Now.

But that’s it for today.

As always, at the bottom of this email I’ll lay out everything I did today to move closer to my Ultimate Vision. This is to keep me accountable and to show you that I’m working as hard as I’m encouraging you to work…

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Woke Up: 1:00AM (I slept in on purpose)

Sleep Quality: 76%

Pages Read: 106

Workout: Rest Day

Work Completed:

Managed The Competitive Advantage Community

Posted 1x on Facebook

Posted 4x on Twitter

Posted 4x on Threads

Posted 1x on LinkedIn

Posted 2x on Instagram

Posted 1x on YouTube

Published 1 Medium Article

Organized My Calendar and Workflow

Worked on Updating My Patreon Book Notes

Studied How to Make Better YouTube Thumbnails

Kind of a relaxing Saturday - I honestly didn’t do too much. Spent some time catching up on my reading, getting ready for next week, etc. It was a good day.

BIG day tomorrow, full of workshops and video calls. One meeting with a guy who one of the best in the world at building and scaling online communities. So he and I are going to talk about how to grow The Competitive Advantage, make it better, more valuable - all that stuff.

So yeah, I’m going to get some sleep so I’m prepared for all that!

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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