Self-Awareness 2/5: Your 110-Year-Old Self

Over the course of my journey into the world of personal development, I’ve repeatedly seen and experienced how the best piece of advice really is to just get started.

It’s something I’ve shared again and again in my writing, podcast, and coaching.

But for a lot of people, this only solves half the problem. The other half? Knowing what to get started on. They know they need to take action, but they don’t know what action to take.

This is why I strongly believe the starting point for anyone looking to step off of the conventional conveyor belt of society and create an exponential life is self-awareness. 

As with any journey, we cannot determine how to get to our destination if we don’t know our starting point. You need to know where you are before you can work out how to get to where you’re going.

In order to help you figure this out, I’ve created a 5-part series of articles to help you develop more self-awareness. In this series, I’ll share a new exercise each day to help you get clear on who you are, what you want and why you’re here.

I suggest doing these in a journal over the course of a week (1 each day) or longer if you wish. The point is not to rush through them, but rather to give each exercise (and yourself) the attention it deserves.

Simply find yourself a quiet place with no distractions (cellphones not allowed!) and allow yourself to really get into it.

Here are the links to all 5 parts in the series:

Part 1: Know Your Strengths

Part 2: Your 110-Year-Old Self (below)

Part 3: Coming Soon

Part 4: 100 Questions

Part 5: 50 Life Experiences

BONUS: The Hedgehog Concept

If you’d prefer to get all 5 exercises immediately in a pdf guide, you can download my ebook ‘Do You Know You’ below:

Self-Awareness Part 2: Your 110-Year-Old Self

The basic idea behind this exercise is that we already have all the wisdom we need inside us.

Get out your journal and mentally fast forward to a few decades from now. Imagine that you are hanging out with the 110-­year-­old version of you.

Now, if you had 30 minutes to talk about life, think about what that older, wiser version of you would want to tell current-day you so that you could embody and live with that wisdom now.

What would he/she say? What memories would you celebrate together? What lessons would he/she share? What would he/she tell you to avoid? What would you talk about? What wisdom would he/she pass on to you?

Journal this conversation and come back to it whenever you feel like you need some guidance.

That’s your exercise for today. Have fun learning from your 110-year-old self and then move on to part 3.

Alternatively, if you’d like to get all 5 exercises immediately in a pdf guide, you can download my ebook ‘Do You Know You’ below.