Be Your Future Self Now Quotes

“If you’re remarkable, it’s likely that some people won’t like you. That’s part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise—ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Your time is the clearest indicator of your commitment. You can’t hide how you spend your time.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“As you get better at clarifying, simplifying, and asking, you’ll receive with increased swiftness.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Some questions you could ask yourself are: What is the reason or goal for this activity? What benefit am I getting from this? Where is this activity taking me?”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Author and philosopher, Dr. Stephen R. Covey, said, “Mental creation always precedes physical creation.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“As a species, we haven’t evolved to plan 20 years into the future. As a rule, our decision-making is myopic, shortsighted, and lacks imagination. We’re heavily incentivized to seek rewards in the present, which can greatly cost our long-term Future Selves.

[If you don't] think and strategize long term, [you'll be distracted by the short-term.]
You’ll be caught up by endless distractions throughout your day.
Your decisions will be myopic.
You’ll cost your Future Self greatly, putting them deeper in debt in all ways.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Sometimes we get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: “Quitters never win and winners never quit.” Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Decisions and actions are best when reverse-engineered from a desired outcome. Start with what you want and work backward. Think and act from your goal, rather than toward your goal.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Knowing the why is the deepest and most powerful form of knowledge because the why is always the driver of the what and how. When you understand why the stock market goes up and down, making informed decisions about investing becomes easier. When you understand why someone does what they do, their actions and behaviors make a lot more sense.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“In the classic book As A Man Thinketh, James Allen, wrote, “Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.”12 This is why getting to a place of knowing and acceptance is crucial. This is why you must be your Future Self now.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Your actions come from your identity. When your identity is rooted in current commitments, rather than your Future Self, your actions are weak and unaligned with your goal. The only way to realize your Future Self is to be your Future Self now.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Dr. Marshall Goldsmith explained in his book Triggers, “If we do not create and control our environment, our environment creates and controls us.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Dr. Stephen Covey said, “To know and not to do is really not to know.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“As the Proverb states, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“The 80 Percent Rule: Done is better than perfect. Dan Sullivan explained, “Eighty percent gets results, while 100 percent is still thinking about it.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“To quote Adam Grant in Think Again: To unlock the joy of being wrong, we need to detach. I’ve learned that two kinds of detachment are especially useful: detaching your present from your past and detaching your opinions from your identity . . . My past self was Mr. Facts—I was too fixated on knowing. Now I’m more interested in finding out what I don’t know. As Bridgewater founder, Ray Dalio told me, “If you don’t look back at yourself and think, ‘Wow, how stupid I was a year ago,’ then you must not have learned much in the past year.”36”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Start asking, and you’ll start receiving. It’s startling how fast you’ll get what you want once you directly ask.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Shipping is about finishing. Done is better than perfect. To quote Leonardo da Vinci, “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“All goals or motivations fit within two categories: approach or avoid.

For instance, going to work because you don’t want to lose your house is an avoidance-driven goal. Going to work to get a promotion is more approach- motivated.

Your reason or goal, whether positive or negative, approach or avoidance motivated, is the driver of your thoughts, energy, and actions.

In all instances, humans act as we do based on the future we see for ourselves. That may be a future we’re trying to avoid, or a future we’re trying to create.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“[For every thing you do, you can sleepwalk without awareness about your actions, or become more consciously deilberate about your actions. Contemplate whether this is a good use of your time by answering some honest questions.]

Some questions you could ask yourself are:
- What is the reason or goal for this activity?
- What benefit am I getting from this?
- Where is this activity taking me?”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.” —Viktor Frankl1”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“As management author and legend Peter Drucker said, “There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” Effectiveness”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Getting your schedule to reflect your Future Self is a major and important step that very few people fully embrace. It will never be convenient to stop the firehose of lesser goals. They will never stop coming. Most externally successful people still fall into the trap of being managed by time, rather than owning and creating their experience of time.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Business strategist Eben Pagan calls this inevitability thinking, which he defines as, “thinking and acting as if what you are doing is a forgone conclusion because you set up the conditions for it to happen.” Don’t be afraid to start small. Design your system around your Future Self.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“It’s almost too easy. You can be the bee who goes out looking for the flowers, or you can be the flower and have the bees come to you. When you ask directly and clearly for exactly what you want, what you want will come to you.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“The more you invest, the more those investments compound. Investing gets you committed. Investing gets you results. Investing is how you proactively upgrade your vision and goals. As you invest in yourself, you increase your commitment to a bigger vision. This change in commitment simultaneously alters your identity, since your identity is what you’re most committed to.30”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Reactively opening your smartphone at the beginning of the day is akin to grabbing that first chip. You’ve just put yourself into consumption mode and there will never be enough to consume, because the rewards are so short-lived.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Rather than putting your Future Self in deeper debt, make your Future Self wealthier. Continually position your Future Self for freedom of time, money, relationships, and overall sense of purpose.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“The more you put your Future Self in debt in terms of health, learning, finances, and time, the more painful and costly will be the eventual toll. There will be a lot of interest to pay if you continually accrue debt. Everything you do can be categorized as either a cost to or an investment in your Future Self. Costing your Future Self means you’re more focused on present or short-term rewards over long-term consequences. Costing your Future Self means you’re consuming far more than you’re creating. Every little action adds up. A cost makes you less healthy in some way, whether mentally, emotionally, spiritually, relationally, or physically. If repeated, costs make you fatter, lazier, hazier, and less connected. A cost is something that comes to control you, rather than you controlling it.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

“Truth #4 is that the more measurable and detailed your Future Self, the faster you’ll progress toward your goals. Effective progress comes with a combination of measurable metrics, a vivid vision of your Future Self, and clear mile markers. Without these elements, people wander.”
― Benjamin P. Hardy, Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation