Now is the only time how we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present, what we do accumulates the future. Is the result of what we do right now. There's parts of this game that have been harder for me than others, but when it comes to future self journaling and like thinking about my future self and be like, what exhibits or what traits do I exhibit that's easy and practicing them as easy. But knowing when to practice them was always a challenge. Today's focus is all about building our future selves. So now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present, what we do accumulates the future is the result of what we do right now. And so our job as a human being is to build our future self in the moment. And for most of my life, I kept reverting to the old version of myself because I would go up in my brain. I would think of past experiences and past traumas. They will be present in my head and that I would act based on those past experiences, therefore recreating the past in the present moment, stagnating my ability to then grow to the next level. you can't know where you're going. If you're always looking out the back. And it was something I struggled with because I wore this badge of honor in the past and not in a good way, but it would ruin every present moment because I'm like, Oh, I just did this. And somebody laughed. I'm like, Oh, but I can't experience a story. Cause remember when I said this to them or did this to them and it was like, I kept this tally. I kept this tally of every slight indiscretion that I held against myself. Unfairly ignoring all the positive things that I had done. And I only took my hand and dug in the bag of indiscretions and used those to justify how I shouldn't be present or have joy in that moment. And then change how I acted because I was too busy staring at where I came from and how I got there and the mistakes that I made then realizing that was all the information I needed. There was nothing else to recollect about. There was nothing else to do. I had made my peace. I had cleared with everybody except myself. And all I had to do was take the lesson in that moment and choose something different. And I realized that overthinking was the trap for me. I would over analyze and rationalize and justify every single thing, which would actually prevent me from doing anything in the present moment to build my future self, because I was addicted to listening to the stuff that was playing in my brain from my past self. And overthinking was the trap. I'd make a mistake. . And it was this nasty evidence collection that I was basically cementing my feet into the ground. So I could not move. And then at the same time I was beating myself up because my feet were cemented and I couldn't step forward.  And it all kept me in it. Because I was overthinking all of it instead of taking a small, simple, different action that would build my future self.The biggest shifts that I had came from when I learned to simply move to move forward, to be in the present moment and to make an action or make a decision that would create me a different result. And I realized that at the root of everything, The guaranteed path to success is consistent, congruent and Action. action also doesn't just mean movement it's intention. I'm an action. When I'm intentionally doing breath work, I'm an action. When I'm intentionally journaling action doesn't mean I'm out running or running away from anything. It means that I'm intentional and I'm intentional about where I want to go. And I'm being consistent, understanding that it is the culmination of things over time that will get me to my destination. And I'm congruent that it's aligned with who I decided that I wante