Take Ownership of Your Future Self

• Labelling ourselves into definitive personality types (like an introvert or not being a people’s person) limits our minds and robs us of our space to evolve and change over time.
• We get stuck in the self-labelling and the various ‘accepted truths’ about ourselves that we assume cannot change.

The truth is we are never the same person as we were in the past.

• Using deliberate practice, imagine a clear goal of what you want to achieve in the future and work towards it by reverse-engineering the process. Having a ‘flagpole’ in the future that you can see clearly can get you there fast.
• Even our main drivers, motivation and hope, come into formation when a clear picture is visible to us about the desired outcome.
• Using ‘prospection’, we need to believe we can create a clear and exciting future, and what we do today affects it directly.

• Identity, which over a course of time becomes our personality, has tremendous power.
• Our consistent attitude and behaviours morph us into a certain personality, which can be driven by our ‘identity narrative’ or the story we tell ourselves about our past, present and future.
• Creating a future identity narrative (and making it known to others) takes courage, but is the only way to be consistent with your proposed self.
• You have to intentionally decide what your future self is, and embrace the uncertainty, learning, change and failure that comes with it.