Benjamin P. Hardy Quotes

To me, ‘busy’ implies that the person is out of control of their life.” — Derek Sivers23

Your happiness as a person is dependent on what you measure yourself against.

As psychologist Brent Slife states in Time and Psychological Explanation (italics mine): We reinterpret or reconstruct our memory in light of what our mental set is in the present. In this sense, it is more accurate to say the present causes the meaning of the past, than it is to say that the past causes the meaning of the present . . . Our memories are not “stored” and “objective” entities but living parts of ourselves in the present. This is the reason our present moods and future goals so affect our memories.

Shifting our goals from fear-based, reactive, and short term to proactive, long term, and love-based is the path to a successful and happy life. Your view of your Future Self is the compass that draws you forward.

By continuously learning, you’ll be enabled to do what your former self couldn’t do. You’ll be able to create what your former self couldn’t create. You’ll be able to have what your former self couldn’t have.

In psychology, inattentional blindness occurs when you are so fixated on one thing that you fail to see everything else going on around you.7 It’s easy to miss the GAINS happening throughout our lives or businesses because we may have tunnel vision on the problem in front of us.

[For every thing you do, you can sleepwalk without awareness about your actions, or become more consciously deilberate about your actions. Contemplate whether this is a good use of your time by answering some honest questions.]

Some questions you could ask yourself are:
- What is the reason or goal for this activity?
- What benefit am I getting from this?
- Where is this activity taking me?

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.

How would my Future Self feel, and what would they do [with my time], if the [20 years in the future version of me] could come back and live my life for the rest of today?

Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom.”–Jim Rohn

100 percent is easier than 98 percent.” It’s easier to commit to something 100 percent, because once you’ve committed, you’ve eliminated the internal conflict.

Jim Rohn has said, “Don’t wish it was easier. Wish you were better.

The goal of creating an environment of freedom is that as an individual, you actually live your life according to your own choosing rather than compulsion.

Because we’re disconnected from our Future Selves, we opt for near immediate goals or dopamine hits. This short-term seeking ends up costing our Future Selves big.

[Example of this, from comedian Jerry Seinfeld]
Late at night, I think, “Well, it’s night, I’m having a good time, I don’t want to go to sleep. I’m Night Guy. Getting up after five hours’ sleep? That’s Morning Guy’s problem. Let him worry about that. I’m Night Guy, I’ve got to party.”
Then you get up after five hours of sleep, you’re cranky, you’re exhausted.
Night Guy always screws Morning Guy.

The more willing you are to invest in momentary loss and pain directed at a goal, the faster you’ll adapt to the level of your Future Self.