The speaker argues that rewriting your past would erase who you are now. Instead, he walks through a planning method he uses with clients: map out your desired life at 1, 3, 5, 10, and 20 years ahead, noting your age at each point. It forces you to get specific about what you actually want.
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So if you went back and you wanted to change your history in some way, you could do that in your mind and think about who you'd be if you did that, you'd be giving away some valuable piece of who you are now. And then the question is, who do you want to become? Like, what life do you really, really want to be leading? What life do you want to be living? And let's project out maybe just five years. Sometimes I'll do this exercise with my VIP clients or my retreat clients, and we'll look at what does it look like a year from now, three years from now, five years, 10 years, 20 years. You have to think about how old you'll be 5, 10, 20 years from now. And what will your life really be? Because it's like, oh, 20 years out, and I'll be doing whatever.