GMM 355: Future You vs Past You

so you’ve made some resolutions well we’ve got the techniques to help you keep them let’s talk about that good mythical morning one of the things we do on this show called good mythical morning is we ask you to ask us questions of advice that we can then answer with advice that you can either take or leave we field those from the Facebook and Twitter thanks for liking us and following us and being our social friend we’re here to help I feel like you’re a real friend addy Brea’s off asks I really I always say I’m going to pronounce the names ahead of time and practice them and then you go and I never been Brea’s off hmm so clearly I hear breakfast how does a person stay motivated to actually go through with their new year’s resolution isn’t this the question that everyone is asking this time of year you like many people made a choice to resolve to become resolute to have a resolution to do something and you if you’re like 78% of the people who make new year’s resolutions you my friend will fail 78% and I know almost 8 out of 10 people that’s okay first of all right off right out of the gate I’ll say because at least you’re trying I mean I’m not even I don’t have enough confidence in myself to even resolve anything anymore I’m pathetic I’ve made no resolutions this you think is all the intention is the only thing that matters it’s not the only thing but it’s valuable so I’m just trying to start this off on a positive note that you’ve made a resolution that’s good now let us help you keep it okay I was going to say something about intention without follow-through is like the mother of invention is like throwing nothing it’s like making the motion of a baseball throw without a baseball in other words is just Fanning someone’s face weight which I’m saying is valuable if that person’s hot as in temperature wise not attractive yes like this is logical anyway okay I love how we’re applying logic to this stupidity are we going to help you I have a great idea I believe I believe that you in the present are the best motivator for you in the future not in it not a buddy and but people do the buddy system buddies fail buddies die sometimes but oh um you might die but then if you die it doesn’t matter because the resolution just could put anyway right what’s the idea the idea is that you make videos of your present self talking to your future self at intervals and then you have those automatically scheduled to be sent to you in some customary fashion so that maybe once a month or once quarterly for the year that you’ve got this resolution you check in on you yes which is much easier than making videos of your future self to talk to your present self right that never works I’ve tried it okay so in the future I’ll get a message from the past me that is more resolved than my current me and that in that past you will say things like listen I know this has got to be getting hard but I want you to get back to that place that I am at right now the place that your mind is at right now where you are so resolved to not eat potato chips this year or whatever the thing might be so it’s like a life coach that you don’t have to pay for because it’s you right in the path it’s free you had to figure out the logistics of scheduling but it is a video it can happen it reminds me of Miss Way kisses eighth grade class do you remember this at the beginning of the year she got us to write a letter to ourselves and then she mailed it to us right at the end of the year I never got it I got my letter my mom wasn’t into that kind of thing checking the mail just you know she’s like oh this is something for him I’ll just but Internet Twitter an issue about anything addressed to you is was was shredded no and the funny thing about it was I remember because it was I I think I don’t remember it was goal related the only thing I do remember I thought it was 4:18 when you were 18 I thought it was Miss Smith’s class and it was when you were graduated college or something it seemed like I didn’t get the letter but here my point okay oh the only thing I remember because I’ve forgotten all of it is is that I was motivated knowing that I was going to get that letter someday yeah that the me that wrote the letter was going to I wanted to live up I wanted to please the past me mm-hmm I was surprised that the the motivational quotient of that please the past you that’s my motivational thing for the year Dustin Baker asks when do I really need to stop writing 2013 on things I would say in 2014 so you mean like addressing a check or a minute I don’t think we need to ask a follow-up question I think we know the ant’s dating a checks as if anyone does that anymore there’s a late hey I was in the grocery store the other day and a lady was doing the check thing at the grocery store I was like people still do that they write checks at the grocery these older ladies older ladies they don’t swipe things you should write 2014 when it becomes 2014 you should write 2014 a related question is it now wrong to say 2014 morally no but it is it is not advised because my wife and I had this conversation well it I can’t believe it’s now 2014 I was like no it’s not is 2014 we got it we got to let go of that I mean you could you couldn’t do that after what 2000 2009 once they came 2010 you were supposed to say 2010 you have to make the transition because you’ve got a decade of saying 2000 something but then yeah I realize that this is just a residual effect of the way we set it through the first decade of the 2000s a 2028 right oh it’s 2062 nor to 2020 62 right 2028 so you should start listen be a part of the solution not the problem say 2014 in 2014 if we say 2014 which I’m sure we will because we just like you have been ingrained to think that’s the correct way to do it correct us in the comments I think this is this is helpful we also have a peel box you mail us things we sing a song as point of transition you know what day it is it’s Thursday Thursday 2014 and Thursday means mail Thursday 2014 well it’s gonna be that every time probably I mean that’s not really a date this year and sometimes the mythical male Boulder as heavy as it grows still floats over here so you can get a closer view of it and sometimes it oh that’s not a motor involves Jason oh they’re helping us here there he is okay um look at this 2014 alright greetings from Chattanooga Tennessee this is Vince and Sharon Van Cleave from Tennessee Chattanooga Elavon Cleaves as my husband and I were preparing for our own strange holiday tradition tacky sweater party GMM saved the day enclosed you will find the first and last handcrafted poop log sweaters hood their hoodies never created all right so we’re you know we’re trying to get over the holidays here but we had to show this to you what happens when you put a hoodie over a hoodie we talked about the strange Christmas tradition of the poop blog and now it’s it’s memorialized on a sweatshirt that I love big poops it’s Christmas this this whole this whole sleeve is dedicated to saying nothing but the word poop check this out right look at this wishes log you didn’t think this was possible but check it out look what what’s happening double hood keeping with the poop thing in coop theme please enjoy the sticky stickers you are also receiving they were given to me by a seventh grader and I had no idea what to do with them until now here’s what you do people if a seventh grader I don’t care if they’re a total stranger for seventh grader comes up to you and gives you something just immediately think I should I should give I should reget this threateningly finally you will find a golf ball for my now-defunct miniature golf course that’s sad I figured it’s like a full report I figured it could be a candidate for the boulder and if nothing else would allow me to give a shout-out to our scenic city mini golf partners usually they don’t balance very well that’s whether the putt book thanks Vince and Sharon you are truly being your mythical best we are going to send you a be your mythical best wristband available at our store rattling comm slash store along with a lot of other changes color with your mood should I put this hoodie on it doesn’t release always green you could I mean sure but he’s not gonna be as cool as what I’ve done because I’ve already got a hoodie on you know what time it is hey there guys I missed F real men from Pennsylvania in the States and it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality von Cleves you know what we’re gonna give you a poster to the reason we didn’t say it is because we’ve sold out but we’ve got more coming more good mythical morning poster signs get this in the meantime stay tuned for good mythical more when not only will I put this on but we’ll have an amazing continuation of a discussion click through to remain on YouTube our new good mythical more Channel Lake what guess I’m gonna go enjoy my hoodie it’s me here is the linkster all alone being me just me and you but mostly me being linked being here I could probably really make good use of this time when it’s just me if I’d have made a list ahead of time of what I would do in a time like this linking it up just being linking it out like I switched hoodies you could have given me more length time can’t have another little bit I was just getting into it okay yeah I like this this is a nice is this gives you an idea of what I good mythical morning would be like if it was just me it wasn’t much more time I’d barely complete you can’t stay away I got double now double so just give me one more like actually count to 60 this time before you come back why to yourself or silently so um yeah I mean enjoy it I just gained a 60 more seconds to just me and you he said 16 right sculptures are categorized by size they have two real meat threshold me personally if someone is like two people should have to lift it so maybe another way it’s not a sculpture until it requite a two-man lift

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