Make Your Future Self Proud
By: René Chunilall
Tags: Life Lessons, Mindset, Self Improvement, Life, Self Love

What do you see when you compare yourself to your past self?

Look back a few days, a few months or a few years, but look carefully at the person you were and critique the progress you’ve made since then. If you are honest with yourself, do you think you can be proud of your progress? Or do you think you should be better? You did face each moment along the way, and it has brought you to where you are now.

But a moment doesn’t seem important until you look back at it and try to draw value from it

Self-reflection is an overlooked art. It asks you to look back and try to find value from everything you have done, good and bad. It asks you to learn from your personal history to better prepare you for your future. But it also teaches you that at some point in the future, you will look back at where you are now to try and find value from this moment you face.

All that you do today will hold immense value for each day after

And if you know that you’re going to someday look back to try and find value from this moment, don’t you think you should do your best to make your future self proud? Those strong emotions that sway you in the moment, do they matter when the moment is over? Don’t think that no one is watching you because your future self is. Your future self watches everything you do.

You have the potential now to bring great value to your future self

Whatever the moment may hold, know that as long as you are there, it is within your grasp, it is for you to mold. The words that you speak and the way that you carry out yourself will be written down in your history. It will wait there for you. When you do look back at it, it can bring Peace to you and help you find answers you may have forgotten along the way. But this is for you to decide.

Keep this Wisdom with you amid the thoughts roaming around, and let it be the light that carries you through your darkest moments

These will make everything a bit more clearer:

Live To Make Your Future Self Proud

Don’t focus your energy alone on those around you, this is not where you will find fulfillment. In fact, this is where you may lose yourself. But you find yourself in the same place you grow yourself — within. Focus your energy on yourself first. But don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to make others proud.

But make them proud by making yourself proud first

You feel what you must be deep within. It is a feeling given to you by a greater power. Accept it, embody it and represent it with each moment you live. Be not afraid to smile nor be honest. Do all that you feel you must do, so that when you look back someday, at the very least you can say to yourself, I have lived. This will be enough to fill you with joy and fulfillment someday in the future.

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” ― Andre Gide

Live With Each Moment

Each moment is filled with potential. It may be short-lived, but it does have the power to live with you for the rest of your life. But you have to decide the potential of this moment, you have to mould it into something worth keeping. You may forget this at times and make many mistakes, but don’t stop there. Learning to recognize the potential of a moment is an art.

Giving purpose to a moment is the craft

Rest a bit longer in Patience before speaking, and when you do speak, do so with the goal of creating a common understanding. What you say is important, but how you say this is much more important. Carry out yourself well by leading yourself from within. Whatever it means for you to face a moment well, do it. After all, you are the crafter.

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw

You Then See A Bigger Picture

You look beyond yourself, especially when the moment consumes you and you forget the way out. Knowing that you will someday look back gives the moment much more of your attention and it takes away a great deal of seriousness that is attached to it.

Once you see the bigger picture, you begin to regain control of yourself

You become a bit more capable and your perspective of the moment changes. It no longer seems indefinite. Knowing that the moment will soon be over finds you hope. And as you return to yourself, you gain more power over the moment. When you find yourself here, I hope that you take responsibility for the moment and do your best to make your future self proud.

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln

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Whilst the Present is all you have, it is fleeting — soon it will be over, soon it will lay to rest in the Past. The passing of time is inevitable, but this should not concern you. Place your attention rather on how your time passes by — do what you must to make each moment valuable. Accept when you fail and succeed because they both are valuable in their own way.

Value that you will see someday in the future

But don’t be deceived by failures or successes because life doesn’t end there. Life goes on, and so must you. Do your best in each moment, leave a piece of yourself wherever you are. If you fall, learn. If you succeed, learn. Just do whatever you can to make yourself proud tomorrow and every day after.

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invest In Your Existence, Kind Reader.