Listening For The Voice Of Your Future Self

Your future self is guiding you all along.  It’s present celebrating with you in your amazingly, happy moments and even during life’s difficult challenges.  Sometimes this voice can be tough to hear or even understand.  But, it’s there.  Here are six ways you need to be listening for the voice of your future self.

Intuition

Your future self speaks through your intuition.  This is the intuitive nudges that guide you along your life’s journey.  Your intuition is defined as a form of quick, subconscious knowledge that allows for immediate understanding in a situation.  You don’t have to wait for conscious reasoning to analyze and process your thoughts.  It can be felt as a gut feeling to just know when or how to take a certain action.  Your intuition gives you instant insights, especially in tough situations.

Challenges

You’ll notice your intuition speaks up in the discomfort during the challenges and tough times. It may be difficult to detect because it’s so quiet to hear over the noise of the loud fearful voices.  Your intuition is generally calm and collective.  Whereas, the voice of anxiety is often lead by blaring mental chatter.  In difficult times, check in with your intuition.  Seek out that guidance from your future self and what your future self would do in these situations.  Tune into your intuition and tune out the loud voices of anxiety, fear, worry, and doubt.  Pay attention and listen to what comes through from your higher self.

Your Dreams

One of the loudest times you’ll hear your future self speak up is when you talk about your goals and dreams.  Your future self gets super excited about your deep desire to achieve your goals and create your dream life.  Think about the last time you talked about your goals and dreams with a friend.  Maybe you talked really fast, got animated, and enthusiastic over the future you want.  Detailing your dreams and sharing about the life you want to create can be thrilling.  Your future self knows what’s possible and your intuition senses that.  Your future self is constantly reminding you of the importance of having goals and dreams.

Discomfort

In fact, your future self may create discomfort in your current life so that you’ll move towards something more.  You may begin to hear your intuition when you start to feel restless and stuck in your daily mundane routine.  When you feel bored, irritated, uninspired, or emotionally disconnected, your intuition is demanding that you pay attention.  It’s a sign that your current life no longer fits with your future dreams.  Growth is required here.  Your future self doesn’t always speak through inspiration.  Sometimes your future self speaks through being dissatisfied with what no longer fits in your overall life plan.

Something More

In the discomfort, your future self is urging you to realize that there is something more for you.  It’s that gut feeling that there is something more for you and your life.  It’s not just your daily habits and what you’re doing in your current life.  There is something more for you to work towards and achieve.  When you have the same thought, desire, or idea that keeps repeating in your mind that’s your intuition.  You keep thinking about starting something, changing something, or going somewhere and those thoughts won’t leave you alone.  It’s not random.  This is your future self intuitively telling you that there is something more for your life and you are not stuck where you currently are.  Your future self is standing on a soap box trying to scream that at you, but the tiny voice only comes through as a whisper.  It’s time to pay attention.

Synchronicities

Lastly, if you haven’t been paying attention, you may eventually start to notice synchronicities.  Books, phrases, people, or opportunities seem to randomly show up repeatedly.  Again, this is not random.  Your future self is trying to get you to pay attention.  You hear the same message from multiple places at different times.  Maybe you hear a certain place from three different people and by the third time it actually gets your attention.  Your future self is trying to guide you, even through your outer world, with synchronicities so that you’ll finally pay attention. 

One day you’ll look back and realize your future self was whispering to you the whole time.  This is done through your intuition with those small nudges or inklings you get.  If a thought keeps resurfacing, there is a reason why.  Stop quieting your intuition and start listening to it.  Allow your future self to speak through your intuition to guide you through difficult times, share in your dreams, and remind you of what’s possible.  You’re being guided to become your future self.

Take Action Challenge

Hear Your Future Self Clearly

This is about building the habit of actually listening instead of overriding your intuition.

Step 1: Create The Pause

At least once today, pause when you feel:

• unsure
• stuck
• pulled in two different directions
• a repeating thought or nudge

Instead of reacting, stop and ask: what is your future self trying to tell you right now?

Step 2: Separate The Voices

Write down two things:

• What fear/anxiety is saying (loud, urgent, overwhelming, noisy, fast paced chatter)
• What your intuition is saying (calm, simple, direct, quiet, hard to hear voice)

Your job is not to eliminate fear.  It's just to recognize which voice is which.

Step 3: Follow One Nudge

Pick one intuitive nudge you’ve been ignoring:

• sending a message
• starting a thing
• saying no
• making a small change

Take one small action on it today.  Nothing perfect.  Not big.  Just movement.

Step 4: Notice The Evidence

At the end of the day, reflect:

• What happened when you listened?
• How did it feel?
• What did you learn?

This is how you start building trust with your future self.

For the next three days, follow at least one intuitive nudge per day without overthinking, just action.