Speaker A and Speaker B discuss how most people get trapped in urgent but unimportant tasks. They suggest asking yourself what favor you can do today for your future self, then actually scheduling it. Laying out gym clothes the night before or finding a dentist for your spouse are small moves that prevent bigger problems later.
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I think that the majority of people are in that place of like urgent but not important living, right? That short-term thinking. What do you do? Is it starting with creating a vision for your life, setting long-term goals? Like where should somebody start? What can they schedule time to do?
What I like to ask is a really simple question. What would it look like to do a favor for your future self? What is a thing you can do today that will make tomorrow easier? And that can really be big or small. A small favor is I know I want to go to the gym tomorrow. I will I will leave out my gym clothes so that that is the thing I put on in the morning so that it becomes automatic that clearly I'm going to the gym, I'm wearing workout clothes. It could be something that's not technically hard, but might be emotionally hard. My wife is really afraid of the dentist. She does not like going to the dentist, but we found her a dentist she likes. And so she started going and she's getting different procedures that she needs and it's scary and she doesn't like it at all. She knows that fixing things now is going to prevent a lot bigger problems in the future. And so that is a favor to her future self.
