Question of the Day: What is one piece of advice you’d like to give to your future self?

December 18, 2025

If you had thirty seconds alone with your future self, no witnesses, no social media, no pressure to sound impressive, what would you say?

That is today’s Question of the Day. And it sounds deceptively simple.

At first glance, it feels like one of those questions that should produce a clean answer. Something motivational. Something you could put on a sticky note or a coffee mug. But the longer I sat with it, the more I realized the honest advice is rarely the polished kind.

My first instinct was to say something about worrying less. Trusting the process. Enjoying the moment. All true. All very Instagram friendly. None of them felt like the thing my future self would actually need to hear.

When I slowed down, the advice got more specific. Less flattering too.

Pay attention to what drains you, not just what tires you out physically, but what quietly empties you emotionally. Stop pretending you can power through everything forever. You cannot. And the cost always shows up later.

That is not advice I do not already know. It is advice I ignore when things get busy or complicated. Which is probably why it is the advice worth repeating.

That is the trick with this Question of the Day. The advice you want to give your future self is often the lesson you are still in the middle of learning. You do not give warnings about things you have mastered. You warn about the cliffs you keep getting too close to.

Some people would tell their future self to be braver. Others would say slow down. Set boundaries. Say no sooner. Say yes more often. None of those answers are wrong. They are all clues.

This question is less about the future and more about the present. Your answer reveals what feels fragile right now. What feels unfinished. What part of your life needs more care than it is getting.

I also like that this question does not demand action today. It does not ask you to fix anything. It just asks you to notice. To name something honestly. That alone can shift how you move through the rest of the day.

If your future self could talk back, they would probably say thank you. Not because you solved everything, but because you paid attention before things got louder.

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So… what is one piece of advice you’d like to give to your future self?

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