Research Shows Benefits of Connecting With Your Future Self
What if the person you’re becoming could influence the choices you make today? Most of us spend a tremendous amount of time thinking about the present. We think about what needs to get done today, what is stressing us out, what decision we need to make, or what isn't going the way we hoped. But there is another version of ourselves worth paying attention to: our future self. The person you imagine becoming may have different priorities, greater clarity, new experiences, stronger boundaries, different relationships, or goals that have already been achieved. Psychologists have been studying our relationship with this future version of ourselves for years. The research suggests that the degree to which we feel connected to our future...