Why Your Future Sucks

There are few things that I subscribe to in terms of newsletters. But one thing I look forward to reading in my work email inbox every day is the pearl of wisdom the people at Trizzle send me simply from the goodness of their heart. I heart Trizzle. Their motto is:

"Trizle helps your business rock the world."

I don't know what they do for their clients, but their business tips totally rock my world.

Below is one of their posts that I formated to give some personal emphasis and also to fit into a one page Word document so I could print and hang up on my cube (yes, people, I have a cube...). There is a lot more to this post so I recommend reading the original.

Enjoy!

Why Your Future Sucks

Jacko:

1. "In ten years, I will exercise, eat healthy, and live life to the fullest."

2. "But today, I will lounge on the couch, eat chili fries, and live like there are a million tomorrows!"

Lebron:

1. "Next year, I will build the most ridiculous startup the world has ever seen!"

2. "But today, I will read message boards!"

Dikembe:

1. "Tomorrow, I will start on my project."

2."But today, I will relax!"

How We Human People Suck

We psychologically overrate our futures.

Thinking tomorrow will bring us brighter days, we consistently sacrifice our today/now/this-minute time to the freakish wolves.

1. "Tomorrow will be better!"

2. "Oh, don't mind how I suck now!"

3. "Because, I will be smiling tomorrow!"

That's why we:

         put things on credit card

         take out freakish loans

         put off exercise

         eat junk food

         avoid healthy conflicts

         lease expensive cars

         procrastinate on our projects

Thinking our futures will be oh-so super-duper-riffic-o, we use our today/now/this-minute-time wastefully destroying that very future.

BOO!

Let's Reframe Our Perspectives

Try this:

1. Stop thinking 'in the future.'

2. Whatever you do for the rest of your life depends on how you spend today/this-minute/this-second.

3. Done.

If you ever start with a sentence with,

         "In the future, I will..."

...do this:

1.         Look in the mirror.

2.         Slap the @#$% out of yourself.

Then tell yourself:

1. "I will most-likely-probably-like-99% never do anything 'in the future'."

2. "If I want something in the future, I make progress -- even if it's teeny-tiny-tiny progress -- toward that future today."