What Do Jerry Seinfeld, Time Travel, and Multiple Personalities Have To Do With Success?

In the opening scene of a Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld did a great bit about Morning Guy and Night Guy: 'I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I'm Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. "What about getting up after five hours sleep? Oh that's Morning Guy's problem. That's not my problem, I'm Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want." So you get up in the morning, you're hungover, you're exhausted, groggy. Oooh, I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There's nothing Morning Guy can do. The only thing Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy loses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore.' Obviously, that's just comedy. However, at a deeper level, this is the way life works. We travel this road of life, and each step is determined by the person we were up until this point. I was reading a review at Amazon.com that contained an interesting concept... Imagine that you are your future self, ten years from now. Who have you become? How has your life changed? How many of your goals have you achieved? More importantly, what will the you of ten years from now want to tell the you of today, if he or she could reach back in time? Will that future you have regrets or resentments about the way the you of today managed your life? To drive home just how important this concept is, shift everything ten years earlier in time. Surely there are things that the you of today wishes you could reach back and tell the you of ten years ago. Personally, I'd like to grab and shake some sense into that fool! We get a few brief years in this world, and then our lives must end. During that brief span, decisions we make today, based on beliefs we formed yesterday, create the path we must follow tomorrow. It's quite unfortunate that we have the lowly perspective we do. Rarely do we look out ahead and see the journey in its totality, preoccupied as we are with the urgent, rather than the important. If you've ever looked out the window of an airplane (or simply looked at satellite photos from Google Maps), you know how different the world looks from a higher perspective. If we could somehow rise above our immediate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, we might make wiser decisions that put us on a better path. You may find it very helpful to think about that poor sucker ten years from now. He (or she) is at the mercy of the choices you make today. Don't fail your future self. Don't disappoint him/her. Set him/her up with a great head start, so that the future you is appreciative, not resentful, for the way you squandered their time. It's been said to "Dig your well before you're thirsty." If you had begun whatever you want to achieve a decade ago, how much further along would you be today? Whether it's an additional stream of income, a new career, skill, or craft, or any other goal, your future self will thank you for starting today. Invest your time, energy, and attention wisely. It's never too late to begin. Where would you be today, if you had begun ten years ago? Five years ago? Even last year? Or last week! Today beats tomorrow. This year beats next year. This decade beats next decade. Do it now. Whether we're talking about affiliate marketing, investing, or personal improvement, make your tomorrow better by taking action today! Post to your blog, submit an article, listen to that self-improvement audio. You can tweak and tune as time goes by. It's been said a million times before that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Don't just stand there! Take that first step. Any step! Don't look back ten years from now at the you of today and say "Newman!"