If your 60 year old self came to you from the future...

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What would the they tell you? The reason I'm wondering is because I got into IM when I was about 25. Some ideas worked while others did not. I gave up on quite a hand full of potential ideas/websites that would have made me pretty wealthy by now (14 years later).

I wished that could go back in time and tell my 25 year old self to just keep going with the things he was working on and not to give up because they WILL pay off. But obviously, I can not do that.

So instead, I had a vision of my 60 year old self coming to me now days and telling me the same stuff that I wanted to tell my 25 year old self. He said that things were going to be so much better in the future. Everything will be easier as our lives adapt to the emerging digital age.

But he also said that this is the golden age right now for internet business. It is equivalent to a modern day gold Rush. Whatever projects or ideas I have in the works today are going to pay off big time in the future. He said to not give up on what I'm doing because if I do, he will remain stuck in his dead-end job, single, living in a one room shack with a beat up old car and a pet Chihuahua. And that's not the life he wanted.

So what would your future version of yourself tell you?
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  • I'm assuming that you are talking to people far younger than 60.

    So, pretend you are 30.

    We are asked t imagine how technology and marketing will change in the next 30 years.

    And then we are asked to imagine ourselves far wiser than we are now. And we are asked to imagine what that far wiser person would say to us....about what to do in this imagined future...30 years from now.

    Easy peasy.
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    • No matter how hard I try, I simply cannot imagine you NOT being any wiser 30 years from now. I mean, can you really move backwards from blathering idiot, as you move forward in time?
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    • take it easy guys !!! This is just the power of technology
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  • A variation of "if only I had known then what I know now"....

    Chances are you could have had advice from older marketers - and you wouldn't have listened.

    In life and in business, often those 'mistakes' we regret in the past are what made us what we are today. Most of us don't admit we're doing anything wrong until after we've made the mistake - and then it's too late anyway....
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    • It's true. But if our proven future selves came to us with advise, I think we would listen to every word and do everything they told us. Because they know the outcome of our actions today.

      As an added rule though, they can't give us winning lottery numbers or anything like that.
  • Let's think this through shall we.

    You from the future comes back to tell you what to do to avoid mistakes. Therefore those mistakes will never happen and your future self will have no reason to come back and tell you what to do. Therefore you'll make all those mistakes, and your future self will then come back to you, thereby causing you to negate his reason for coming back.

    In order for your future yourself to come back and give advice, you have to completely ignore any and all advice he/she is going to give you otherwise your future self will never come back in time to give you that advice.

    Can you now see what an utterly ridiculous and paradoxical scenario this is?
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    • I see three flaws in your argument.

      1) You are an idiot. (It's a joke folks. It's funny because it's obviously not true.)
      2) There are no paradoxes.

      OK, I meant 2, not 3.

      But, my friend, let's pretend this really happened.....

      Nothing would change. You were always going to go into the past and talk to yourself. Whatever you did after that talk, caused everything from then on to happen, exactly the way it did before you turned 60.

      Why don't you remember (as a younger man) a visit from your older self? Maybe you didn't tell your younger self that it was you. Maybe you didn't believe the older self and forgot...or thought it was a dream, of had brain damage afterwards.

      For example, if I could somehow travel back in time and tell my younger self not to marry my first wife.....somehow...that already happened. And no matter what information is transferred..I was still going to marry my first wife, because that's what happened.

      The reason you cannot change the past by time traveling to the past, is because that trip is part of the past, and always was. You cannot erase that trip (and everything that happened) from history. Your future (from the perspective of your past self) will still be the same...always.

      If you travel to the past to shoot Hitler as a child.....that trip was already part of history. So...you either died before you could shoot him, changed your mind, shot the wrong child, or he survived the shooting...that was already part of history.

      I am a genius...a very stable genius. I know the best words. I know more about ISIS than the generals, believe me. Matt Whitaker is a great guy, I know Matt Whitaker. I never met Matt Whitaker, I don't know him.
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    • You mean someone like me? Says the person who can't quote Bob Dylan right...

      This isn'ta science question so don't take it there with rude replies.
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    • Not necessarily, I on 11/11/18 go back to 1980 at 1 pm and tell my earlier self to invest everything in Microsoft and Apple. I return to 11/11/18 at 2 pm and I am considerably richer person. I say 2pm so I have no chance of running into my one hour earlier self, he will be one hour in the past and his existence came to an end one hour in the past.

      The consequences of this action will be mine. How my life has turned out, my relationships etc will be mine to discover. I would not instantly know what they were as I temporarily jumped outside the timeline.I would only know that I went back and conversed with my earlier self.

      I just stepped outside time, went back and had the conversation to make my future more rosy.

      I suppose you could say it's a point of view thing.
  • Hi Er,

    "Live in the moment."

    The past is a ghost. The future is like leading a horse with a carrot, afixed about 3 inches in front of its head. The future never arrives.

    Only the present is real. Only the moment exists. So be there, and you will cease wasting time in past and future.

    The 60 year old you is the 20 year old you. Same moment. Different growth. That's all.
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    • I agree, because you cannot learn from your past, and why waste time on a future that never arrives?

      I am so glad that I never planned for the future. Those people that invest money for the future, instead of spending it all today...are fools.
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  • If you don't believe in a future, then you have no reason to live beyond today. People who don't believe in and never plan for a future, die broke.

    On that singular day, when I don't wake up, "Ya' got me." Until then, I look forward to a very bright future, because I'm now living the very bright future I envisioned for myself over a decade, ago. See how that works.

    How do people come up with this bullshit? Such narrow-minded, immature, defeatist thinking. Believing in nothing, gets you nothing. So very sad.
  • I guess WF community has diminished. No wonder so many people on here don't make any money...

    Mods just close this thread before it attracts the trolls.
  • Very inspirational, thank you for sharing your experience.
    I do think NOW is the golden age of Internet Marketing.
    I agree with you on not giving up because in the future your ideas and projects do pay off.
    And not only working in IM is an investment for your future, it's also a deep learning process where you acquire unique skills.
    For me, Internet Marketing is not only about blogging, SEO, and e-commerce, it's also about coding, video editing, audio editing, audio recording, video recording, graphic design...
    OH YEAH, now I'll answer your question haha:
    My future version on myself would tell me: keep doing what your gut feeling tells you to do.
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  • tbh I figure whatevah she said, she only after my .

    "O my Sweet, let me amaze you with visions of your incalculable successes!"

    "FFS -- getchya hands offa my boobies, you withered 'ol wraith!"

    "Aw, c'mon -- donchya wanna know how it all turns out so cool?"

    "Back off, Night Terror. Whatevah you promisin' -- no way ima settlin' for them BIG GAL PANTIES you wearin'!"

    "O, but this is the fyooture. An' you have so much more to learn."

    "Whaaaaat? Like excessive calorie intake an' a switchout from lacy fabrics to frickin' upholstery downhome on my fanj?"

    "Scream all you like. I know deep down you want in on my secrets."

    "Yeah, but that don't mean I gotta letchya whooshie off my skin like no peeled rabbit so's you can wear it like a dinky outfit to your next orthodontist appointment with Dr No Chance ..."

    Yeah, so f*ck her.

    Thing is, evrywan's fyooture self morphs as time passes.

    An' for sure the gal I mebbe woulda expected when I was a teen ain't nuthin' like the person who might end up droppin' on my ass rn.

    tbh past, present & fyooture is in deliciously evolvin' flux.

    An' all steps ultimately lead forward only.

    Which prolly means when I 60, daily jumpbacks to counsel STOOPIDHEAD MOI gotta be scheduled around hangin' out with people easily duped by moisturisin' skin care promo or else fully functionin' prowess regardin' an instinctive ability never to pee downya own legs at random.

    Meanwhile, here's the story on time's resident specters ...


    https://www.warriorforum.com/copywri...pywriting.html
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    • The takeaway from that whole exchange (given the statements made by your 60 years old self) is that even now deep down you realize your 60 year old version has to be more coherent because she couldn't possibly be less.
  • Well, first of all, I would advise you to buy a lot of bitcoins and somehow deal with your future privacy.
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    • But you'd understand if you were laughed at and ignored, correct???
  • Ok, but yeah, this is a sort of Time Machine, save the wife, so so can die again issue.

    Ditch IM, and stay with the Stockmarket, is what l would say. Or it might be easier to say, "Buy Apple"?



    True your "101 Magic Tricks for Atheists" is legendary, and is always available in every seedy hotel toilet block, globally.


  • Would you meet yourself coming and going? I'd probably be so fascinated with the journey I'd forget what it was I was going to tell me.
  • I'm 60 and did a lot of seminars over last 30 years for others to visualize their future. Always did mine at each seminar I conducted , and yes I am living the dream!
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    • Of course you are. Time to wake-up. lol
  • Don't take advice from people behind a laptop or computer. Don't live a sedated life and don't feed your addictions, work towards understanding the dark, acute trauma that causes them instead. Listen twice as much as you talk. Don't get triggered by people who don't like what your doing or what you say (trolls). Do self therapy everyday and look for the revelations of why you did what you did that day, good or bad. **Mod, removed sentence**
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    • And don't forget to ignore most of the psycho-babble that posters would like you to regard as deep thoughts from a deep thinker and if you don't support their assertions, they will simply label you a troll.

      Very deep, indeed!
  • Patience, effort, and consistency chick.
    Trust this process and try not to f**k it up.
  • living on the social network is not infinite and we may get tired of it
    I'm afraid of that day, because we got used to it badly ...
    However, the social network has made me more friends and enjoy my life more for this

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  • got a smart as comment so forgive me..

    now if these projects and ideas going now fail.. and do not amount to much.. will that mean that your 60 year old self never learned to stop telling themselves lies ..

    In any case .. we do not need our future self to come back and tell us a thing ..as the real gold today.. is all the data and information available ..to tell you the liklyhood of where you will be in 5-10 years or longer .. if you keep doing what you are doing now.. eating the way you eat.. or not doing .. like moving and staying healthy .. or living a lifestyle that allows you to save a big percent of you income .. and invest in better skills ..or business or invest in assets that will give residual income .

    I am 40 ..i looked 5 years ago and figure if i was still alive by 60.. i would probably be on disability ..and 350 pounds in a mortised wheel chair ..but if i continued on the path i was on..would probable have been dead before 50 ..

    no guarantee i won't dies at some point in the next 15 or 20 years ..by some accident or tragedy.. but i have rebuilt my health and i am close to in better physical shape than i was at 18 ..

    the gold or platinum or oil of the 21st century ..is data ..tons of dat is being gather on you..and can be easily acquired by you..do you use it to improve pretty much any area of your life .. or do you just let companies figure out what product to make and get the adds you are most likely to respond to in front of you ..

    there are an unlimited number of potential future selves ..are you going to become the one you want to be .. or the one that just happened ..

    even if everything you are doing now fails .. wil you learn enough along the way to build the future you you wish to be ..

    the best most power full way to live in the moment is to have a future you as far in the future as you can imagine ..you are working in this moment to become ..

    so what who is the you you want to be then .. but also who is the you you will be if you keep on the way you are now .
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    • Or, in your sleep, tonight!
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    • Thank you. This is worth a quote. Maybe even an Instagram post!
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    • So, wrong. There is only one one future self. The one that you actually become. Period!
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  • It is the power of technology, everything is changed and developed. I can't question my past and imagine my future in this rapid change. Just go with the flow.
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  • I would just say "enjoy every life moment".
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  • this is some inspo thanks
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    If your 60 year old self came to you from the future...

    What would the they tell you? The reason I'm wondering is because I got into IM when I was about 25. Some ideas worked while others did not. I gave up on quite a hand full of potential ideas/websites that would have made me pretty wealthy by now (14 years later). I wished that could go back in time and tell my 25 year old self to just keep going with the things he was working on and not to give up because they WILL pay off. But obviously, I can not do that.