👩‍💻🏋️🚴‍♂️ Be the butler to your future self - discipline - prioritize future self

Josh Holladay

Jun 7 • mindset

I heard a story from Chase Hughes about discipline.

"The Butler Principle"

Here's how it goes:

First, what is discipline... really?!

"Discipline means to prioritize the future needs of your future self ahead of what your present self wants right now."

This statement speaks volumes.

Why?

Because it requires some prerequesits or things to be in place before you can ever hope to master discipline.

Your future self is required to be defined, imagined, created, documented. In other words, who in the world do you want to become in your life?

Be brave.

Dream.

Then, once you've got some kind of picture (documented, written down, with images and as much as you can create...)

You take actions that are in line with getting yourself closer to that person, the YOU version you WILL some day become.

And here's where "The Butler Principle" comes into play.

"When you go to bed at night, set our your clothes, put your shoes out. If you're traveling, pack your things and put them by the back door so it's easy. Clean your office or room so that when you enter next time or sit down to work, you've served your future self. Make it easy for yourself as you do things to create space and harmony and enablement so you can continue to perpetuate change and lasting growth. Then, there is a gratitude effect. As you looked into the future to serve and enable your future self, you will look back in gratitude to your past self for serving, supporting, and believing in you."

POWERFUL!

And, what does that mean to you and me today.

We create a pathway to becoming... which, by the way, we were meant to work on and keep going, every single day no matter what... keep striving to improve 1% better each day.

That's the purpose of life, progress.

So, what ever we are doing we are setting up and empowering our future self to make it easier and easier to do on the next day.

—Josh

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👩‍💻🏋️🚴‍♂️ Be the butler to your future self - discipline - prioritize future self