# Future two
**URL:** https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901
**Category:** Life in Recovery
**Tags:** motivation
**Created:** [November 8, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901 "2023-11-08T16:01:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@anon74766472](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon74766472)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901/1 "2023-11-08T16:01:51Z")
I was wondering for myself after reading about this ‘tool’ to form a sentence about yourself in future 2 to give it more power in the present time:
So, will I have lived/been like this or that. Will I have done this or that.
I really need to think about it and I already discovered that, wow, it’s kind of scary for me to form such a sentence.
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### Author:  [@RosaCanDo](https://talkingsober.com/u/RosaCanDo)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901/2 "2023-11-08T18:14:02Z")
This is interesting to me - can you give a hypothetical example?
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### Author:  [@anon74766472](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon74766472)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901/3 "2023-11-08T18:20:21Z")
I will have been someone who was caring and not judgmental.
I think I need to start smaller. That’s a huge goal. See, by typing this I am immediately faced with the status quo.
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### Author:  [@TrustyBird](https://talkingsober.com/u/TrustyBird)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901/4 "2023-11-08T18:23:18Z")
For me I think:
I will have been an integrated version of myself, open and honest, less secretive.
Edited to change “I will be” to “I will have been”.
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### Author:  [@RosaCanDo](https://talkingsober.com/u/RosaCanDo)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901/5 "2023-11-08T18:25:58Z")
I see. I will have my health and wellness as a priority instead of always putting others’ needs before my own.
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### Author:  [@Faugxh](https://talkingsober.com/u/Faugxh)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901/6 "2023-11-08T19:24:38Z")
These are all awesome. Except for the judgementality one - not saying it’s not important ofc tho I would like to challenge you do apply something I know for myself from writing: it is as important to know what you don’t want as to know what you do want, sometimes more important. How does that feel? And then ofc focus on yourself and dont stay w what is not for you.
I will have been someone who has done what was necessary for herself.
Edit: it might also work better w positive statements rather than saying what you will not have been like? Just a thought.
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### Author:  [@anon74766472](https://talkingsober.com/u/anon74766472)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://talkingsober.com/t/future-two/173901/7 "2023-11-08T19:36:51Z")
Yeah. Of course. Waaaa! 😱 My brain doesn’t understand ‘not’. 😱 Stupid me. Thanks for the reminder 🙃