798. Using Your "Future Self" as a Decision Filter

798. Using Your "Future Self" as a Decision Filter

From No Days Off with Brian Gubernick by Brian Gubernick

April 21, 2026 · 9 min

About this episode

Brian Gubernick discusses using your future self as a decision filter to improve personal and professional choices.

What if most of the decisions you made this week were made by the wrong person? Inspired by a recent sit-down with Dr. Benjamin Hardy, author of Be Your Future Self Now, Brian unpacks how to stop running your life on a past-self operating system and start pulling your identity from the future instead. He weaves in Dan Sullivan's 10x framework to show why thinking bigger isn't about grinding harder — it's about forcing yourself to ask who you need to become and what you need to leave behind. The real power of future-self thinking isn't in the five-year vision. It's in the one-question filter you run on every small decision, every Tuesday afternoon, when nobody's watching. -- Get on the list to receive Brian's monthly newsletter: https://nodaysoff.com/subscribe/ Tune in to this podcast every weekday morning for 10 minutes or less as Brian shares lessons and stories about how to make positive changes in your life and business, one day at a time. That's what the "No Days Off" movement is all about. The objective is to spend focused time each day improving in some small way. Each episode presents questions to contemplate, concepts to understand, and actions to take in Business &…

People in this episode

Host: Brian Gubernick

Guest: Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Topics covered

  • future self
  • decision making
  • personal development
  • identity
  • business strategy

Keywords

  • future self
  • decision filter
  • personal growth
  • business strategy
  • identity

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Be Your Future Self Now

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