Hey everyone, 

in this post I wanna talk about going all in on something, and how it’s translated to improvements in every aspect of my life.

So by going all in on something, I mean choosing a vision and committing to it; a north star.

Why? 

Because if your vision truly belongs to you - not the one that satisfies your family, friends, society, or anyone else - if your vision is truly yours, then it will motivate you beyond measure to make the right choices to achieve what you’re after. 

And I’m not saying your vision can’t also be what other people want for you - it can, as long as it’s also what you really want!

Once I identified my long-term vision, which is what I want my life to look like over the next 15-20 years, every aspect of my current life fell into place.

It’s based on an idea about identity that I learnt of a few years ago: 

Imagine

the ideal version of yourself. In my case, it’s the version of me 15 years down the line who’s achieved everything that I’m currently working towards. 

And almost every time that I’m faced with a decision to make, I ask myself: “What would ideal-me do?”

And then I just do what “ideal-me”, the ideal version of myself, would do. 

It’s not always easy, and that’s especially the case in the beginnin.

But the more you act the way your ideal-version would, the easier it gets because you’re reinforcing this new identity of yourself. 

So it eventually becomes second-nature.

But wait!

If you’re taking the same actions that the ideal-version of you is taking, what’s the difference between them and you besides the point in time that either of you exists in??

Evidence. 

The ideal-version of you has been making the right choices for long enough that the evidence of those choices has stacked up.

For example, if the ideal-version of yourself has been exercising every day for 20 years, then they’re probably in pretty good shape. 

Their physique is evidence of the fact that they’ve been exercising for 20 years.

So if you think about it the way I do, the only difference between me and “ideal-me” is that he’s been making the right choices for longer than I have. 

In other words, when I’m faced with a choice, if I do the same thing that the ideal-version of myself would do, then I already am the ideal-version of myself.

I’m just waiting for the evidence to stack up. 

I know it sounds delusional, but for me it eliminates the distance between who I am now and who I want to be.

Because if my actions define who I am, and I make the same choices that the ideal-version of myself would make, then who I am now and “ideal-me” are one and the same.

I just need to keep doing what I’m doing, and things will work out. 

And I understand that it’s hard to think like this if you’ve never experienced it before; my first experience with it was completely unintentional: 

I love exercising.

I was always a very active kid; and the fact that I’ve stuck to it for the past 14 years has given me the physique that I have.

The evidence has stacked up in that aspect of my life.

So because I’ve already experienced how making the right choices for long enough gets me what I want, in one aspect of my life, I can apply the same thought-process to other areas of my life.

So how does this tie back to going all in on something? 

Well, to achieve your vision, however far out it may be in the future, you need to start making the right choices now, so that the evidence has enough time to stack up.

They say compounding is the 8th wonder of the world - it’s true!

Part of my long-term vision is building a successful company. And it’s really really hard!!

But because it’s a part of my mission, I’ve adopted the identity of the ideal-version of myself who’s already built this successful company, and achieved the other things that I’m after.

As a result, everything that I did yesterday, today and will do tomorrow, are aligned with my vision.

For example, the reason I make sure I can workout in 20 minutes is because ideal-me, has built a successful company (which is very demanding time-wise), but also has fantastic health. 

Therefore, I won’t compromise on taking care of my body and my mind because those are important parts of my vision. 

The reason I speak to my family every day for almost an hour while I eat dinner is because ideal-me has a great family life and spends plenty of quality-time with them.

It’s another important piece of my vision, so I won’t compromise on it.

I hope you can see that your vision doesn’t just need to be about you grinding away at something. 

It can and should encompass every aspect of your life because living your vision every day is how you achieve it.

My vision is the filter that I use to make every decision in my life.

If something doesn’t contribute to my long-term vision, I cut it out. I don’t spend any time or energy on it.

So as a result of choosing to go all in on my vision, every single day I live the life of ideal-me, who’s already accomplished what I’m after. 

Therefore, I live every day knowing that if I died tomorrow, I wouldn’t regret the way I spent my time.

Now, things can change - my vision, my priorities, all of them can change - that doesn’t matter.

What matters is that I’m being intentional about how I spend my time, and acting in accordance with what I want.

And that allows me to enjoy the journey, not get burnt out, and inevitably achieve what I’m after.

I hope that if you go all-in on your vision, it’ll change your life for the better, just like it has for me. 

Also,

I’m trying to come up with a catch-phrase for the brand, so here’s what I think I’m gonna start saying at the end of every post:

Take care of your health and it will take care of you.

Your Internet Siblings,

The Healthy Kangaroo Team ;)