Voting For The Future You

You're listening to Uppercase Life, the show for people who want to live life all caps bold. And I'm your host Joseph Brewster. Owning our own time can really be a challenge. It's much easier to allow external demands to dictate your schedule, you know, to react rather than to act. Because as much as we say we want change and as much as we say we want to be our own boss and have control of our time, you know, when it comes right down to it, it can be a lot of pressure and it's far easier to just complain about how badly everyone else uses our time than it is to just use it ourself.
But think about it this way. Each action you take and each hour you spend each minute you spend, when you come right down to it is a vote for a future version of yourself. It's not so much the big decisions, but it's the accumulate of the small choices over time that really shape our identity in our trajectory. And that's not to say that big decisions don't matter, but I think that often we put too much weight on big decisions, and we think that just making the right big decisions periodically is the answer to having the life we want.
But really, we're making hundreds and hundreds, thousands sometimes of micro decisions every day about our activities, about our attitude, about our health, about our time. These things accumulate over time into the routines and the habits that we develop. And these things, I think, are really what weigh in on how we make big decisions. So those tiny micro choices, you've been making for years, when that big decision comes, those weigh in on your choice.
So I would encourage you to look at the actions you're taking every day as being small, tiny votes for a future version of yourself, like the act of brushing your teeth, for example, it's a vote for a future with less cavities and cleaner teeth where you can chew things better. And, you know, probably as an adult and I assume that you are when you're listening to this podcast, you've been doing this long enough that it's really not that big of a deal anymore to brush your teeth.
I mean, it's not as hard to remember. It's not arduous like it was when you were a child and your parents were telling you. But it still makes a big difference. It's a positive choice you make every day that you take for granted. Well, what if other things are equally important in small doses on a daily basis? What if choosing to wake up a little earlier and be prepared for your day is a vote for a less stressed out version of you later on in the day?
What if a trip to the gym is a vote for a future version of yourself that is still flexible and can move around easily? What if all those things that you were doing today make more of a difference and you realize, and I'm not encouraging you to overthink them, we can easily do that as well. I'm saying that once you have instituted some small micro habits that are voting for a future version of yourself that you want, you will, without even realizing it, be changing your life for the better.
What are some positive votes that you're casting today? What are some things that you're going to do or have already done today, which over time are going to accumulate into a better version of the future? Yeah. And then what are some votes that might result in a future you're not really looking forward to? You can't control all your circumstances and you don't need to.
But you do have a vote. You can vote for the version of you that is passionate, driven, living with meaning, and your vote makes a really big difference. Other things are also making votes for your future, too, and some of them are more well intentioned than others. If you don't vote for your future, someone else will and they're probably going to elect a version of you that maybe isn't exactly what you hoped because it's not their vote to cast.
So what if every moment you spend is a vote for a future version of yourself? How would that change the way you look at your small decisions today? How would that encourage you that you have the ability to create change, to generate a new routine over time just by making some micro alterations in your day to day, just drinking a little more water over time is going to help your body just being a little less stressed out over time is going to help your relationships and you can start that in small doses today.
Did you vote today? Why did you vote for and what could you do tomorrow to cast your vote for a better future version of yourself? Thanks for joining us on the show today. I'd love to hear your feedback, your comments or your questions, and you can email me at the uppercase life at gmail.com. And if you enjoyed this, consider leaving us a good rating so other people can find it as well.
And until next time, live like it matters.