Your behavior follows your purpose and goals. Without conscious purpose, the how becomes conflicted and chaotic. - Benjamin P. Hardy

Do you want better and bigger goals? A better Future Self? Expose yourself to better perspectives and evolved people.

Business strategist Charlie Jones stated, “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.”
By proactively changing your inputs of information, experiences, and people, you become aware of what you previously didn’t know. You see what you previously didn’t notice. You seek what you previously didn’t want. You act in ways you previously didn’t behave.

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.

The reason the hedonic treadmill exists is because people aren’t taught how to be happy.