Speaker 1: I'll get a team. Well, as you know, we're kind
Speaker 1: of we're moving through our series of twelve repurposed content
Speaker 1: from over the last year or two through the You
Speaker 1: Project and also life. This episode is about what we're
Speaker 1: going to do, be, create, change, learn undo over the
Speaker 1: next year. What your life might look like from moving
Speaker 1: forward in a year from now. This is a little
Speaker 1: bit of a I guess, provocative but also reflective piece. Anyway,
Speaker 1: wherever you are today, whatever you're doing, I hope you
Speaker 1: have some fun. What do you want your life to
Speaker 1: look like a year from now on Planet you? If
Speaker 1: things are going great, if things are evolving and improving,
Speaker 1: and you're doing better, thinking better, producing better, communicating better,
Speaker 1: what's happening, what's happening in that new and improved version
Speaker 1: of your life? Think about this. This is not a
Speaker 1: bad thought exercise, but also not a bad practical exercise.
Speaker 1: I've done this many times in my life where I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm spinning my wheels, i feel like I'm
Speaker 1: working pretty hard, or I'm investing a lot of time
Speaker 1: and energy for not much, and when I hit the
Speaker 1: pause button, I realize that I am in a version
Speaker 1: of groundhog Day. I realize that I do a lot
Speaker 1: of the same stuff that doesn't really work, Like it
Speaker 1: kind of works a bit, but it's not really truly
Speaker 1: productive and effective, and it's not really compelling me forward.
Speaker 1: It's not really creating the existence that I want to inhabit,
Speaker 1: and it's not making me the person that I want
Speaker 1: to be. It's a little bit different these days, I
Speaker 1: think have evolved and I'm a bit better in this space,
Speaker 1: in this place. But for a long time that was me.
Speaker 1: And you know, here's the thing, like we you know,
Speaker 1: we listen to podcasts, we read books, we watch YouTube stuff,
Speaker 1: we go to workshops and seminars, we talk with our friends.
Speaker 1: We ruminate, we think, we overthink, we unpacked, we philoso fiers,
Speaker 1: we set goals, we we create plans kind of sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, and then it's Christmas, then it's New Year.
Speaker 1: We go, oh shit, where did that year go? And
Speaker 1: this is what we do? We go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: didn't this year go so fast? Didn't it? Bloody fly? No,
Speaker 1: now I didn't. He's exactly the same as last year,
Speaker 1: depending on the oddly year, of course, but in general terms,
Speaker 1: same three hundred and sixty five days, twenty four hours
Speaker 1: a day, fourteen and forty minutes a day. That's life.
Speaker 1: That's our lot. It's the same. The variable is not time.
Speaker 1: The variable as you and me. Now here's what I
Speaker 1: can tell you is absolutely going to happen. And you think,
Speaker 1: how would you know? Hear me out? One of four
Speaker 1: things is going to happen for you and this is
Speaker 1: guaranteed a year from now. So I want you to
Speaker 1: look at the date that you listen to this, won't
Speaker 1: you think about how your life is currently? And by
Speaker 1: how your life is, I mean situation, circumstance, environment, job, money,
Speaker 1: or the internal stuff, joy, happiness, fulfillment. Are you anxious?
Speaker 1: Are you sad? Are you lonely? Are you disconnected? Are
Speaker 1: you depressed? Do you have purpose or you're creative? Is
Speaker 1: their joy? Like that internal world and that external world?
Speaker 1: Now what's let me finish what I was going to say.
Speaker 1: So what's going to happen a year from now? Is
Speaker 1: you are gonna one You're either going to be dead.
Speaker 1: Let's hope that's that sounds You're not going to be dead, though,
Speaker 1: but that's a some people. There's a lot of people
Speaker 1: right now that they're not going to be here in
Speaker 1: a year. Let's hope that you and me are two
Speaker 1: that are still here. Let's hope that. So let's assume
Speaker 1: we're here. So one of three things now is going
Speaker 1: to happen is that your life is going to be
Speaker 1: worse than it currently is. Your life is going to
Speaker 1: be pretty much the same, or your life is going
Speaker 1: to be better. Your life is going to be better
Speaker 1: than it currently is. And so my question to you
Speaker 1: is what does that mean? Like specifically, what does that mean?
Speaker 1: What are the things that you want to do, be,
Speaker 1: create and change to make that a year from now,
Speaker 1: that one year from now life great. And so what
Speaker 1: we do is this thing called reverse engineering, where we
Speaker 1: start with the end in mind. So just for now,
Speaker 1: I would love you to imagine even if you if
Speaker 1: you're driving, don't do this, but maybe if you're sitting
Speaker 1: on the train, maybe not either or riding a bike
Speaker 1: or running, but sitting on the train, you're probably but
Speaker 1: maybe if you can turn down the busyness for a minute,
Speaker 1: maybe even if you're multi asking, you're listening to me
Speaker 1: and you're doing something else. If now it's not a
Speaker 1: good time, maybe find a time where you re listen
Speaker 1: to this and listen to me. When I say to you,
Speaker 1: what do you want your life to look like in
Speaker 1: a year When you think about a year from now
Speaker 1: and your life's going great, what's happening in that great life?
Speaker 1: What's your situation in that great life? Are you in
Speaker 1: the same job. Are you in the same job at
Speaker 1: a different position? You're doing that differently, You're in a
Speaker 1: different job. Have you started your own business? Maybe you've
Speaker 1: already got your own business, Have you grown it? Have
Speaker 1: you changed it? What are you doing in terms of
Speaker 1: ongoing learning and personal development? Are you in the middle
Speaker 1: of a course or a workshop, or a book or
Speaker 1: a process. And what about your spiritual life? If you
Speaker 1: have such a thing, what's happening there? And what about
Speaker 1: your body? What about your health? And what about your relationships?
Speaker 1: And what about all of these things that combine to
Speaker 1: equal the totality of your life. Your life is not
Speaker 1: a thing. Your life is a combination of things internal
Speaker 1: and external, scene and unseen, physical and non physical, and
Speaker 1: all of that stuff comes together to form you your life.
Speaker 1: Is it possible that in a year from now you're
Speaker 1: making more money than you are now but you're less happy?
Speaker 1: Is that it's absolutely possible? Is it likely? Well? Who knows.
Speaker 1: Is it possible you're making more money and you're happier,
Speaker 1: very possible. Is it possible that you've already peaked and
Speaker 1: where you are as where you need to be in
Speaker 1: a year from now, that right now you're in the
Speaker 1: vara and nothing needs to change or you want nothing
Speaker 1: to change. It's possible. It's probably not likely because you're
Speaker 1: listening to me, which means you probably want to learn, grow,
Speaker 1: evolve and do better, think better, create better. But maybe,
Speaker 1: But I can't tell you what it should be. Of course,
Speaker 1: I would suspect that a better life, or your best life,
Speaker 1: would involve some of that internal good stuff, some of
Speaker 1: that calm, some of that joy, some of that purpose,
Speaker 1: some of that fulfillment, some of that happiness, and some
Speaker 1: of that social connection and love and kindness and compassion.
Speaker 1: I would guess that involves that, but I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: It could be all about what's happening in your business.
Speaker 1: And that's nothing wrong with that, no judgment from me.
Speaker 1: So do a stock take of where you are right now,
Speaker 1: and then put on those one year classes. Think about
Speaker 1: what life will be in a year from now, and
Speaker 1: think about when you're in the middle of that good life,
Speaker 1: that future life. Think about what you need to do now.
Speaker 1: Think about the decisions that you need to make now.
Speaker 1: Think about the action that you need to take now,
Speaker 1: Think about the stuff that you need to acknowledge, the
Speaker 1: conversations you need to have the commitment that you need
Speaker 1: to make now so that in the next twelve months,
Speaker 1: with work and where it's and discipline and self control
Speaker 1: and passion and courage and a bit of intellect, you
Speaker 1: can inhabit that life that you want to inhabit. We'll
Speaker 1: be back in a minute. All right, we're back, So
Speaker 1: just quickly, here's my question. What's one thing, one thing
Speaker 1: that you can do today that you haven't done, but
Speaker 1: one thing that you can do today that's going to
Speaker 1: create some momentum so that this is not just another
Speaker 1: thing that you listen to that you go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good concept, start the end in mind,
Speaker 1: and work back. But what if you actually, what if
Speaker 1: this wasn't just another show that you listened to. What
Speaker 1: if that wasn't just this wasn't just another ten minutes
Speaker 1: or so of your life, but it was actually the point.
Speaker 1: We're not because of Craig Harper or not because of
Speaker 1: what I say, but because of you, where you go,
Speaker 1: fuck it. I'm not ready, it's not comfortable, it's not
Speaker 1: hast but nonetheless I'm doing it. And then you look
Speaker 1: back in a year and you go, fuck, remember that day,
Speaker 1: Remember when I made that uncomfortable, that unplanned that I
Speaker 1: wasn't ready for it. It wasn't convenient, it wasn't fun,
Speaker 1: it wasn't painless. But I did it, and now here
Speaker 1: I am. You will not magically or accidentally succeed, friends,
Speaker 1: you will make the decision, you'll do the work, you
Speaker 1: will get uncomfortable, and you'll grow and learn and evolve,
Speaker 1: and you will inhabit that better life that you want
Speaker 1: to inhabit a year from now, or you won't. It's
Speaker 1: your choice.