{"id":3409,"date":"2019-10-30T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2019-11-23T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T06:45:53","slug":"path-to-future-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/path-to-future-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Path to future You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Do you believe you can do better? Do you have a picture of what life could be for you? Do you know who you need to be if you a want life like that? Every day is an opportunity to learn and prepare to get where you intend to go.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Benjamin Hardy writes about 5 strategies that can take you to your future self. But not before he quotes Dr.Daniel Gilbert of Harvard whose research shows that people are really bad at predicting who they will be in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here they are: <br>1. Imagine Who You Want To Be In Three Years <br>2. Feel, Deeply, What It Would Feel Like To Truly Be That Person <br>3. Shift your current life to reflect the future you <br>4. Expect Everything, Attach To Nothing <br>5. Measure The Gain, Not The Gap <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last point is important because that will tell you why you need to read this article. When we set goals we are basically measuring progress by determining the gap from where we want to be. \u2018Loose 20 Kilos. Lost 2 in 3 months &#8211; this is not happening.\u2019 Typical response. Instead as Dan Sullivan says \u201cThe way to measure your progress is backward against where you started, not against your ideal.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the article. And read through the photo of Ben\u2019s Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where I learnt this #303 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to Become Your \u201cFuture Self\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/benjaminhardy.com\/how-to-become-your-future-self\/\">https:\/\/benjaminhardy.com\/how-to-become-your-future-self\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe you can do better? Do you have a picture of what life could be for you? Do you know who you need to be if you a want life like that? Every day is an opportunity to learn and prepare to get where you intend to go.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/path-to-future-you\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,73],"tags":[70,97,139],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-managing-yourself","tag-alwayslearning","tag-managing","tag-self"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-SZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}