Your days are like actors improvising without scripts.
Some scenes land, some don’t. Some days feel satisfactory, some waste your precious time.
Are you tired of that end-of-day “what did I even do?” feeling?
Because I was.
It’s not the lack of time you may feel you have in your day that is the problem. It’s the vague destination you’ve never really spent time thinking about, but spend most of your day endlessly working towards.
A vague future equals vague priorities that feel urgent and important, but aren’t intrinsically meaningful.
Instead of living each day intentionally, you just respond to whatever shouts the loudest. This is how most people spend their entire lives: reacting to a storyline they didn’t write.
People make many claims about who they are, but how can you know you are who you say you are?
It’s not a hard answer.
You are who you say you are when the undeniable stack of evidence behind you demonstrates it.
This means though, if you keep winging your days, ignoring your future, then the quiet ache you feel in the evening about your life won’t fade; it’ll harden into concrete evidence of who you truly are. It’ll become your personality.
Detail isn’t decoration—it’s navigation.
In order to gain clarity about your future and to finally stop wasting your time - that you can never get back - one of the best practices you can is to write about your ideal future or ideal self in great detail.
You can do this by following the below points:
- imagine that everything has gone perfectly
- you have worked hard and succeeded at accomplishing all of your life goals
- you’ve gone through the realisation of all of your life’s dreams
- then: write about what you imagined. What you see; what you’ve accomplished, the people around you, the location you’re living; the way you look…
Doing this transforms each day into an opportunity to get one step closer to you best possible self and your ideal reality. What you need to do - and why - becomes crystal clear.
No more dead end days or unsatisfied sighs.
And this isn’t just some loopy-fairy trick that supposedly helps you feel better.
No.
It’s been scientifically proven to do so.
In Pennebaker, J. W., & Seagal, J. D. 1999 study called “Forming a story: The health benefits of narrative”, they found that the control group - who journaled about their best possible selves/future and their day, as opposed to the other group who only journaled about their day - scored significantly higher on measures of psychological well-being (which included such concepts as personal happiness and life satisfaction).
This means that Pennebaker demonstrated that such positive consequences are related to the development of a coherent narrative.
So, stop writing gratitude lists and start journalling about your future if you want your days to feel directed and clear.
BetterBrain helps you do this via our very own future self-authoring journalling process called Destiny Definer.
By the end of it, you will have:
- an understanding of who you are
- an understanding of what you want
- and an understanding of how to take action.
On top of this, all of this crucial data is securely and privately stored inside of your BetterBrain (and only on your device) which will then hold you accountable and responsible to this vision one day at a time, providing you the best self-improvement system on the market.
We believe in Better. So should you.