Automate and Systemise: To truly embody your future self, you need to create systems that align with your goals and eliminate decision fatigue. This might be the most important book this author has written (and I’ve read all of his stuff so far). When the car hit the unguarded patch of rubble, it spun, flipped, and landed on the opposite side of the road. He tried to make a blanket statement that it doesn’t matter what you believe in but it was obvious he has strong Mormon beliefs.

If we, however, are willing to consistently release imperfect work, we will develop confidence and the necessary momentum to create huge success. While Hardy’s family struggled to talk about the accident for several years, his mom chose to frame the incident as a pivotal moment that clarified her purpose in life: raising her three boys. In Hardy’s case, he did this by setting up an automatic payment from his bank account to his investment account every Monday. Mercifully, she did regain consciousness, but was kept in a body cast for over a year and remained in constant agony for the following two decades.

For him, mindfulness is about achieving a goal at some distance – maybe three months, maybe ten years later. I'm sorry I use to word reek but I smelled it when I first heard Hardy speak, before knowing anything about him, I googled "is Benjamin Hardy a Mormon" within the first 5 minutes of his talk. They can be positive or negative, approach or avoidance motivated but the author explains that about 80 percent of us are primarily driven by fear or avoidance. She became softer, more compassionate, and went out of her way to express gratitude for the little things. It will likely involve delegating certain activities to others or through certain software or programs.

Whatever results you are producing in your life right now is proof of what you’re actually committed to. Remain inspired by arming yourself with the truths about your future self – including the distinction between the different versions of you and the role of belief in God. What if your actions and behaviour were not simply a by-product of the past, but driven by your view of the future instead? When you own your experiences, rather than them owning you, you can craft a narrative that powerfully serves your future self. I really like the concept of being your “future self” and appreciated how Hardy laid out most of the steps to get there.

Discover how to become the best version of you and develop healthy habits, find inspiring new perspectives and live a motivated, joy-filled life! And as Hardy’s example shows, systemizing and scheduling are tools that unlock fast, almost effortless growth. These self-dubbed “positive psychologists” provided an almost polar opposite explanation for human behavior: that human beings weren’t pushed by their past; they were pulled by their future.