Live For The Future

Live for the Future, Not the Present, (For Now)

A total Antithetical to what you been told

 You’ve probably heard “live in the present moment.”

In hindsight, it sounds reasonable. Instead of dwelling on the past that can’t be changed and constantly chasing for an ideal future that never seems to arrive, we are then told to focus “here and now,” the “present moment.”

This sounds logical, even holy.

But what if “here and now” sucks.

What if your current situation is in a bad place?

Perhaps, you work at a shitty job or you’re in a crappy relationship or your battling an addiction.

How are you supposed to be appreciative in the “here and now” when “now” is a shitty predicament.

Telling anyone to be present is useless advice.

I have a much better suggestion…. Use your past’s trauma and failures to 100% motivate yourself for redemption to achieve your ideal self and future.

The Truth

The advices I see online regarding “be present” or “be grateful” is practically useless and will worsen existing existential crises.

Lets start with be grateful for what you already have. Firstly, You can’t just feel gratitude any more than just “be in the present moment,” as if either is a light switch. Gratitude is spontaneous. It comes and goes. You are not in control in how it arises organically, innocently without the interference of strategy mind.

Be grateful for what you already have is holy. But for real life practicality it doesn’t work.  

The mind simply doesn’t work that way of conscious demand. Trying to trick yourself by telling yourself “at least you have a roof over your head ” doesn’t work.

That is why gratitude journaling is Nonsense.

What arises through spontaneous innocence is purity. 

You either feel it or you don’t.

Secondly, The more you try to be in the present moment, the more you are thinking about being in the present moment… Thinking about the present moment interferes with the mind entering the present moment !

When you are lost in the moment  – its usually because something has genuinely captured your attention and drew you in for a space of time that effortlessly pulls you out of thinking. You are accidentally lost in the moment.

If you try to manufacture it, it loses its power.

This is where thousands of years of spiritualists lose themselves through various mediations, mindfulness practices and other methods of trying to be present. What they don’t realize is activity is the hindrance.  

Thirdly, people who preach living a “simple life” are generally miserable. What they call contentment is avoidance.

They often feel a hole missing in their lives. Instead of confronting it, they dismiss ambition as shallow and effort as meaningless. Unless you live in the mountains and away from modernity, you will always feel something is missing. That is because you feel the voice inside telling you, you can do more. Your spirit is trapped inside, It is desperate to be unleashed.  

Achieve the goals first, than you discover they are not the point. And realizes life is full of phases. There will come a time reaching your full potential no longer interest you and you move on. Until that day is actualized, you’ll always feel small.

There is something within us human beings that senses…

• Lack of action = erosion of self-respect.

• Erosion of self-respect = fixation on others.

• Fixation of others = living in the past.

Humans are useless creatures without passion.

The shitty job is still waiting for you on Monday whether you try to live in the present moment or not. You will still be insecure, stress out about your finances, wishing you somewhere else, which is not the present moment.

Most people, deep down, don’t feel empowered. They’re quietly embarrassed by how little they’ve achieved or how little they earn. With too much idle time and too few accomplishments to lean on, their attention turns outward. They end up gossiping about workplace drama, old relationships and endless complaining what’s wrong with the world and finding fault with everyone but themselves. They actually live in the past.

“Living simply” by way of non-materialistic minimalism is noble. But to succumb a life of ordinary existence and not to discover what you’re truly capable of is disrespect to your human nature.

Which leads to the next point.  

Fourth, it is absolutely necessary to live a life of passion. We are born for the enjoyment of life. That what conforms the best to our nature is our sense of destiny. Even if our destiny contains struggle, and most likely it will.

A destiny fulfils you. It excites you to get out of bed. Instead of waking up dull, lifeless and dragging a tedious existence through a mundane routine of work, chores and digital distraction.

You go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion. The world is malleable. It shapeshifts and brings into the non-existence into existence, from whatever you choose to create.

What’s more, you are LESS likely to be in the present moment if you are living with boredom, stress or any dissatisfaction You are MORE likely to be present when you’re achieving goals.

I wake up everyday with fire in the belly to finish creating Leaving Loserville. I love doing more than everybody else. I invest all my energy and nearly 2 decades of experiences into LL, exposing the truth to what mankind has been missing, knowing it will change many lives for the better. My goal is to help you to arrive.

 As Arnold Schwarzenegger once said “ I like the colour red because it’s fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.”

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Its 100% okay to use your past - whether its Bullying, Non-emotionally supportive parents, Poverty, Failures or any Demons you carry – as fuel to prove to yourself you can do it.  

1.   Use Your Past Rage to Fuel Your Hunger to Proactively Take Consistent Action.

2.   Visualise A Future that Feels So Compelling That You Can’t Help Feel Drawn Towards It Every Day.

3.   Its Okay To Be Unhappy Temporarily For At Least Now.

Living for a better future is far more enticing and rewarding than living in the moment of now when now sucks. The future gives you something to aim for – something that pulls you forward. You can live within your vision and let it soften the pain you’re dealing with right now, at least long enough for you to get your shit in order and put the missing pieces together, so that you can actually live the life you want.

Be Proactive, Living for a better future

Despite working in a shitty job, you plan the rest of year ahead by exploring what job or business you’ll like to get into and how to fit this in, in your weekly schedule. You imagine the glory it brings you when you can finally work for yourself and that keeps you optimistic and focused. [Live for the future].

At the same time, the painful moments of having to dragged yourself into a unbearable job can fuel your drive to find something better.  In this case, your using [Past rage to fuel your hunger for change].

You take a photo of your current physique and commit to working out three days a week, you know that change comes in small increments so you keep your head down and work towards a ideal body type you envision. You know deep down its possible, you just have to work on it. [Present while working for the future] You might not like yourself. You use the past to better yourself because you remember how being fat makes you feel. In this case, your using [past rage to fuel your hunger for change].

You make one daring bold move - remove a addiction from your life, build a new routine or learning a new skill. The early stages always feel slow and painful, and motivation is usually nowhere to be found. But you keep going because you know the reward is waiting on the other side.

This is especially true for addicts. Anyone who’s been through real withdrawal, myself included, knows the depth of that suffering. The only thing that kept me moving forward was the belief that a better future exited beyond the pain. [Live for the future].

As you can see, to engineer the life you want, your going have to be 90% proactive rather than living reactive. Life doesn’t happen to you, instead, life is something you direct it towards.

What will eventually happen ?

When you finally reach your goals, you’ll also realise its all been in your head this whole entire time.  

But if you didn’t achieve your goals, you would stay where you are, trapped by a mind that keeps you enslave to mediocrity and unhappiness. You would always wonder what could have been if you given 100% and you’ll look back with regret.

Feelings of smallness, insecurity, bitterness begins to melt away when you finally arrive, replaced by confidence, composed, bold, powerful and grounded.

Life stops feeling like something happening to you and starts feeling like something happening for you.

You will have arrive…

Final Word

The present moment is the most powerful state one can be in. However, you are less likely to be present if your “now” is in a shitty predicament AND if you haven’t learnt the Truth.

The present moment can shape any future one desires. In order to do this, you must discover the TRUTHS to all aspects of life.

Than slowly, you melt subtly into the world of No-Mind.

Whoever learns this secret superpower holds the chisel to the future.

~ Live For The Future ~

The secret sayings

True transformation comes from the correct exposure. When spoken or written, the essence behind the words has the power to connect to personal experience, thus creating a living understanding, thus creating transformation.