Last time, we began to look at how we can become more effective at setting our future selves up for greater success – and that principle is true whether we are talking about careers, finances, relationships, retirement, and so on.
I have counseled so many clients who live with regrets: “I regret not finishing college because now I’m limited in my career choices.” “I don’t know what I was thinking when I began that affair – now I’m divorced, alone, and struggling to survive.” “I should have made my kids a priority as they were growing up – now they hardly want come around.” “I wish I had saved more for emergencies – recent unforeseen circumstances have put my finances in jeopardy.”
But here is something to consider -perhaps you are in your forties or fifties and your younger self didn’t do you any favors, so you are not where you want to be. What do you do – do you just give up? Absolutely not. You see, while your twenty-year-old self may not have set your forty-year-old self up well, think about the opportunity you have now to do the things that another twenty years from now you will be glad you did
Are you living a life now that your future self will wish you had lived differently because of the regret it will lead to or are you living a life now that honors God and your future self will be glad to inherit? Something worth pondering.