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• It’s best to make decisions based on what your future, not your present, self wants.
• It is not the obstacles between ourselves and our dreams that stop us. Rather, we are stopped by our commitment to the idea—to the identity—that we can never actually achieve our goals. That we don’t have what it takes. Instead of committing to what we truly want, we commit our time and attention to lesser goals. We settle for a lesser future self....
• That’s the truth of personality. It’s not innate but trained. It can and does change. It can and should be chosen and designed. Choosing one’s own way is a primary purpose of our lives. Yet there is a fear in making choices, because choices have consequences. As a result, people avoid making decisions, fail to choose their own way, and limit their ...
• The most successful people in the world base their identity and internal narrative on their future, not their past.
• Rather than being what she would consider “career” or even “goal” driven, she is now “purpose-driven.”