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All right, and welcome to this edition of the Prosper Leader member call.

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This is the end of month call.

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So even though it's falling a little early because we have a lot of Thursdays this month,

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one, two, three, four, five Thursdays, but normally we always meet the first Tuesday

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of the month in the morning, 7 a.m. Pacific Standard Time to kick us into gear for the

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month.

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And then we meet near the end to have some time to wrap it up.

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And so we're gathering kind of sandwiching the month with some space in between.

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So today I'm very excited about the topic that I'm going to talk about.

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And if you're here live, you're going to get to experience it and together, and then we're

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going to gather and talk about it.

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And I'm super excited about this.

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If you're listening to the recording, I'm going to just push stop.

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And whereas they will have 10, 15 minutes to do the exercise, you could just push replay

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when you're ready to go to the rest of the video.

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So everything that I'm sharing is based on a book, one of the top books that I am recommending

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for 2024, and it's called Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy.

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He's one of my favorite up and coming authors.

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He teams up with Dan Sullivan, who's totally OG.

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He's been, I've been getting his stuff for decades.

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And so it's real fun kind of see them combine and what they're producing.

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So they've got three really good books that I loved, Easier Than 2X, The Gap and the Gain.

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And this one is called Be Your Future Self Now.

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So when it comes to New Year's, when it comes to tapping into your vision, when it comes

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to really being compelled and propelled and stay focused and just get a hold of the vision

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in a way that it gets a hold of you, this is a powerful book and these are going to

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be really powerful exercises.

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You know, I think about Philippians 3.13, Philippians 3.13.

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And in the NLT, it says, no, dear brothers, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this

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one thing, forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead.

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And he goes on to say, I press on to the mark, et cetera.

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And it's a really powerful verse because first of all, too many of us lose our joy, our impetus,

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our everything.

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It's robbed, it's stolen from us whenever we get stuck in the past, thinking about the

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past, the coulda, shoulda, woulda, the regrets, the blames, the bitterness, the, you know,

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the sadness, the grieving, all parts of process.

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But as we stay in the now and we release and we bless and, you know, we bless and we release

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and we forgive our past, ourself and others, it frees us up to truly live in the now.

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And so you've heard me say a lot about that.

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And so then if I'm always telling you the importance of living in the now, why am I

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now telling you to do an exercise with the future self?

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Okay, I want you to understand the slant, okay?

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And the slant is that you get super clear on your future self and then you are taking

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daily actions and living it in the now.

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That'll maybe make a little more sense as we get going.

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But this is really powerful.

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Go ahead and mute yourself.

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I'm hearing some noise in the background.

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You can even turn your camera off until we come back.

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And so here's, there's a couple ways that we look at life.

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We often shape our future based on our present circumstances.

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In other words, the danger is that we think that things are not going to change that much.

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And so somehow in our mind, if we think 10 years forward, we think things are going to

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stay pretty much the same in 10 years from now.

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And we have a tendency to think that 10 years is really far away.

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And I think you've heard Tony Robbins say, we overestimate what we can do in a year and

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we underestimate what we can do in 10 years, right?

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So because of that, we do not really get clear on our future and we often sell off our future by responding to what gives the dopamine hit right now.

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So to truly advance, we have to shift our focus from the daily grind, and I'll explain more in detail what I mean this, to truly being driven by and having a clear, just compelling future.

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A future that's driven by a clear vision, by faith, by mental flexibility, right?

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And so the first step to being farsighted in doing this is being connected, really getting connected with our future self.

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So let me read some quotes from the book, Be Your Future Self Now, and then we're going to get into some powerful exercises.

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Here's some powerful quotes.

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Building a connection to your future self requires seeing your future self as a different person than you are today.

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This does not come naturally. As a rule, most people assume their future self is basically the same person they are today.

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So that's the first thing. And the quality of the connection you have with your future self determines the quality of your life and behaviors right now.

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And another quote, when we're disconnected from our future selves, we opt for near immediate goals or dopamine hits.

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This short term seeking ends up costing our future selves really big.

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This is why we often get sold on things, no payments till June of next year.

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And our brain says, ah, that's far away. Everything, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and take that right now.

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And it's like, boom, that fast, right?

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So the more connected you are with the future, the better your present will be.

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So here's if you were going to write something down, and I'll also send you this template.

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The distinction is you're learning to live from and not towards your future goal.

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So most people have their future goal, and it's almost like the carrot on the stick.

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And it's just in front of them. In front of them, it's always future. It's always future.

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And we always see a future. We don't see it being fulfilled.

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We're not investing in it. We're not compelled by it. We're not driven by it.

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It's just something always future, future, like the carrot, always in front.

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That's when you're going towards a goal, and it's like you never get there.

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When you're coming from the goal, you actually get into the feeling tonality of that goal.

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And you begin to live it now.

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Now, those of you that have been around me for a while, you've heard me teach this, okay?

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So you're living from that place as if you're already there.

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And so you're living from that goal and not to get towards that goal.

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Okay, so here is your step one. Step one.

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And I'm going to tell you it. I'm going to put some music on.

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And you're welcome to just work privately or turn your camera on.

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It's fun to see each other working on this.

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But here's step one, and I'm going to give you time to work on this.

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I'm going to stop the recording during this and just play some music.

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So the first thing is we have to realize just how much we can change.

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This is really big to realize.

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So the first step is we are going to go backwards.

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So you are going to go back ten years.

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So I did this exercise. It's so powerful.

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So you're going to go back to January 2014.

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You're going to go back to January 2014.

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And I want you to think about who you were ten years ago.

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What were you thinking?

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What were your beliefs?

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What were you doing?

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What were you struggling with?

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Who were you?

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What compelled you?

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I really want you to get a sense of who you were ten years ago.

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And then you start to really realize how much you've changed in ten years.

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And this opens your mind to like, wow, if I've changed that much in the last ten years.

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Wow.

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what's possible in the next 10 years.

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So this is kind of a primer exercise.

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So I'm gonna give you about 10 minutes.

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I'm gonna play the music and I want you just to journal.

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You know, if you wanna look in your phone at pictures,

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if you have them still in your phone, I happen to, yes.

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Or, you know, if you have a journal around,

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whatever that just reminds you, whatever you need,

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think about where you were living,

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what you were feeling, what you were struggling with.

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Want you to really get in touch with you 10 years ago,

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2014, okay?

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So I'm gonna give you about 10 minutes to do that.

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I'm gonna pause the recording.

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Okay, so the next exercise is we're gonna travel

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into the future.

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So it's now 2034.

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So what is your age in 10 years?

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And so you're gonna go forward

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and you're going to live in that place

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and you're going to write a letter

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or speak to your current self.

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In other words, you're gonna go there

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and you're gonna be in touch with what your life is like,

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where you're living, who you're associating,

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what you're feeling, what you learn,

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what your thoughts are now, what's, you know, everything.

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And now from that future self, you're going to journal

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and you're gonna write a letter

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and talk to your current self.

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Like what is your future self wants this current self

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to know, to understand.

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Your future self's really talking to you.

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It might be inspiring, encouraging, warning,

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like let it talk to you, okay?

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So step into 2034, write down how old you are,

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where are you living, what are you doing,

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what are you thinking, what are you feeling,

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how are you showing up and get into that place.

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And once you've really gotten into this place,

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write a letter to your current self.

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So I just thank you for this experience.

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Thank you for this experience.

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And I hope that with this course of absolute inspiration.

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As you have promised.

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That you are going to do exceedingly abundantly above

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anything we could ask. Hope or imagine.

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To think about the possibilities to think about the

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And what we can learn and the depths that we can love and

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the depths of experience that we can have

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And so I pray that you will use this exercise

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Very powerfully

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To set our minds and our hearts

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On everything that you have for us

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And I give thanks in Jesus' name

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Amen