Motivation For Your Future
What have you done today that your future self will thank you for?
This is a question I often pose to myself. Sometimes I can answer with a number of positive, future supporting tasks that I have ticked off my ‘to do’ list for that day. For example, yesterday I invested time in my business venture, ate reasonably healthy food and took a relaxing walk in the countryside. Clearly these things will have both long and short term benefits. My smugness quota for the day was therefore good!
However, like everyone of us, I have days where it’s a struggle to find the positive future-life-enhancing tasks to tick off. Sometimes, it’s just the basics like cleaning my teeth (yay, maybe I will still be able to chew my own food!) and remembering to put the rubbish out on the right day (I know, very short term, but surprisingly beneficial, particularly during the summer months!).
Of course, the point of looking forward is to appreciate that it is actually ourselves that we are setting up for a better or worse day, week, month or year. This can be a powerful motivator for not just getting things done, but for focusing on and getting the important things done.
As we know, it’s all too easy to put tasks off for another day, but, when those tasks are the things that will help create a stronger, fitter, wealthier and happier future for ourselves, then it’s high time that we got to it! [Read more…] about Motivation For Your Future