Being Kind to Your Future Self: Everyday Choices That Shape Tomorrow

Kind

Kind (adjective) — showing consideration, generosity, and care toward others or oneself; acting with intentional goodwill that shapes outcomes over time.

In Being Kind to Your Future Self, kindness is redefined as a Maverick discipline—choosing today what your future self will be grateful for tomorrow.

Being Kind to Your Future Self

An Everyday Maverick Reflection

The idea of being kind to my future self has been sitting with me for a while now. Not the distant, retirement-version of me only—but the version of me five minutes from now… tomorrow morning… next year… and decades down the line.

Being kind to your future self is about leverage. It’s the quiet power of understanding that what you do now doesn’t disappear—it echoes. Every decision you make today becomes the environment your future self has to live in.

Everyday Mavericks learn this early: the present is not neutral.

Small Choices. Long Shadows.

Most people imagine “the future” as something abstract—some far-off destination they’ll deal with later. Mavericks know better. The future is being built in ordinary moments: what you choose to delay, what you choose to confront, what you choose to invest in when no one is watching.

History gives us a powerful picture of this.

The Wright brothers didn’t stumble into flight by accident. They were relentlessly kind to their future selves. While others mocked, doubted, or waited for better conditions, they invested their time, focus, and limited resources into a vision no one else could see yet. They chose discipline over comfort. Curiosity over certainty. Action over approval.

And the world has never been the same since.

Timing Isn’t the Enemy—Waiting Is

Scripture captures this tension beautifully:

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:1

This verse is often used to justify waiting. But read it carefully—it doesn’t say wait for the time. It says recognise the time.

One of the most dangerous lies we tell ourselves is, “I’ll start when the time is right.” The truth? The right time rarely arrives fully formed. It’s usually hidden inside discomfort, uncertainty, and imperfect conditions.

Being kind to your future self means learning to move with time instead of negotiating with it.

Kindness Looks Like Responsibility

This kind of kindness isn’t soft. It’s intentional.

It shows up in how you spend:

• your time (what you keep postponing),

• your money (what you consume vs. what you invest),

• your energy (what drains you vs. what builds you).

It means choosing growth over convenience. Health over neglect. Depth over distraction. It means owning the consequences of your actions—because your future self will inherit them whether you like it or not.

Everyday Mavericks don’t outsource responsibility to luck, systems, or circumstances. They understand that freedom later often requires discipline now.

The Cost of Neglect

When we fail to be kind to our future selves, the bill always comes due—usually as regret.

Regret over conversations not had. Skills not developed. Health not protected. Dreams deferred until they quietly expired.

The tragedy isn’t failure. The tragedy is never giving your future self a fighting chance.

A Maverick Commitment

Being kind to your future self isn’t about grand gestures. It’s about daily alignment. It’s about asking one simple question before you act:

“Will my future self thank me for this?”

As Everyday Mavericks, we choose to live awake. To act with intention. To plant seeds we may not immediately enjoy—but will one day sit under in gratitude.

So today, take one step—small, deliberate, courageous.

Your future self is counting on you.

Shalom!

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