Have you ever thought about developing a relationship in the present with your future self?

Is this a type of Time Travel? Perhaps.

Could you think extensively about the person you want to be in the future, developing a clear picture of that person, then as you get to know your future self, that future-self changes who you are at this moment?

This seems like Time Travel without the usual stipulation that you can do nothing that would change the past, according to the rules of Time Travel, that is.

Procrastination is for me a very bad habit. I’m told that procrastination can be understood as leaving an unwanted task in the present for one’s future self, but who is that future self?

Studies using fMRI, or functional MRI, technology have demonstrated that when a person is asked to think about themselves, think about a stranger and think about their future self, the blood flow pattern for both stranger and future self are the same and much less than when the person is thinking about themselves.

Writing in Solving the Procrastination Puzzle, Timothy Pychyl concludes from his findings that the mind doesn’t know any more about the future self than about a stranger and therefore finds it easy to hand off an unpleasant task to the future unknown person.

To turn this around, we need to create and get to know our future self, stop being lazy, have their back and get the work done now. Do it now, Do it now, Do it now. It’s all for your future self. This change of mindset will have a profound effect.

Mark really has my attention now. I am eating this stuff up!

And there’s more. Stay tuned!

I always keep my promises!