#TalkNerdyToMeLover's Jordan Harbinger
Imagine if you will, that you could go back in time and be fifteen years old again.
Now, what if you had a crystal ball and could see into the future. And in doing so, what if you could see yourself as you are today?
How would the fifteen-year-old version of you react? What would he want to say to you? Whether you are now 18, 25, 35, 45, 70 or anywhere in between, my question to you is a simple one: Would the fifteen year old version approve?
Well, depending on who your were at age fifteen, the answer to that question could vary wildly. What’s more, who you are TODAY would no doubt affect that answer even more dramatically. Let’s face it. All of us have certain hopes and dreams at age fifteen that we’d love for the adult version of our respective selves to make good on.
Here are some areas that your fifteen year old self might key in on were he to steal a glimpse into the future:
1) Job
So did that exciting career happen for you? Do you wake up in the morning excited to take on the world or are you living for the weekend from paycheck to paycheck? Are you changing the world with what you do or are you chasing greed? Do you have ambition or are you devoid of a passionate mission that stirs your soul?
2) Knowledge and Wisdom
Did you get the education you always hoped for? Do you have the skills necessary to be amazing at what you do? Have you absorbed from life’s experiences what you should have in order to make solid, well-informed, and wise decisions?
3) Lifestyle
Are you living the life that you always thought the freedom of adulthood would afford you? Did you buy the plane tickets and boldly see the wide world with your own eyes as you always dreamed of doing? Are you fearlessly pursuing the hobbies and accomplishments therein that you always swore you’d partake of once you got out from under your parents’ roof? Or are you STILL under your parent’s roof?
4) Health/Fitness
Did you maintain your athletic physical shape? If you were overweight or underdeveloped in school, did you transform yourself as you matured into the man you always wanted to be physically? Is your state of health directly attributable to the lifestyle you’ve lived? If so, is that a good thing?
5) Interests
Okay, be honest with yourself. When you were fifteen and immersed in youth culture, you probably knew what cool was, even if you weren’t exactly there just yet. Do you still? Now that you make your own decisions as an adult, are your interests, well, interesting? Granted, your fifteen year old self may not have been evolved enough to understand how cool it is at age 30 to know wine (and notwithstanding Gary Vaynerchuk, who did)? Nonetheless, your fifteen year old self has his finger on the pulse of whether you got “old” prematurely or not, doesn’t he?
6) Stuff
If you had posters of Audi Quattro rally cars on your wall as a teenager, did you make good on parking an RS4 in your driveway as an adult yet? Did you win the trophies, earn the certificates, and collect the gadgets?
7) Friends
Who are you hanging out with these days? Would the fifteen year old version of you just as soon run and hide as be associated with them or would he think you have kick-ass friends?
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Women
Okay, this one really is the linchpin, the real “kicker,” isn’t it? What kind of women are in your life? Would you blow the mind of the fifteen year old version of you, or would he instead start cherishing the time he spent with his little sophomore girlfriend because he fears she’s the cutest thing he’s ever going to have the chance to associate with?
So what’s the verdict? Is your fifteen year old self giving you high fives and hand pounds or have you humiliated him? Only you can answer that question. But here’s why this is so blasted important to consider, even beyond the motivational aspect of it all.
Ready?
My firmly held belief is that high-quality women are evaluating you very much with the same yardstick that the fifteen-year-old version of you would.
Seriously.
Sure, those great women aren’t exactly fifteen years old. But women–creatures of passion, idealism, boundless energy, and a quest for fun such that they are, desire a man who understands ambition, leadership, wisdom and adventure. Rifle through the checklist, and you’ll see that your fifteen year old self’s aspirations and those of a great woman for you are strikingly similar.
So do your fifteen-year-old self proud and attract great women in return. Both are depending on you for greatness.
To learn more about how to meet & attract women, check out the Toolbox over at the Pick Up Podcast!
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 6:58PM
