Do you want to have a coffee with the most important person in the world?

Imagine this; you meet up in a café for coffee and cake with your younger self. You walk towards the table and your younger self is already there, sitting there with a steaming mug of coffee, checking you out while you slowly walk towards the table. What do you notice? It’s a bit nerve wracking right? What are you two going to talk about? How do you feel about this conversation that is going to take place? Would your younger self approve of the life you have built, approve your career choices, where you live?

Haven’t we all sometimes wonder what it would be like to meet our younger self? What would you tell your younger self, what do you wish you knew when you were younger? What your younger self may have to say about you?

I was talking about this to my client the other day, she mentioned her younger self and how she lost her vision of her career goals and dreams and lost total confidence in herself over the years.  I asked her what her younger self would say about the situation she found herself in right now. She said her younger self would tell her to get a grip, you are fabulous and just get on with it! Do It. That is what she would say.  

 My client reminded me of a book that I read years ago.

It's about a successful businesswoman who has spent ten years in London pursuing personal and professional perfection leading her own PR company. On the surface she has it all! You can vision her selfies on social media, right? Beautiful house, money to spend, luxury holiday locations, expensive sophisticated clothes.

 Under the surface however she was slowly drowning, she was struggling to hold her head above water. She was stressed, anxious, lonely and she had lost track of who she really was. One day however she accidentally meets her 21-year-old self and they become friends. She is eager to teach her younger self to use sunblock as she thinks of the damage she did to her own skin. She tells her to eat healthy, do your exams, focus on your studies and all that.  But the real lesson came when her younger self gets bored of listening to this old woman who she doesn’t know is her older self.  And ask this lady to chill out a bit more. She asks her up front what she does to have fun. She reminds her older self how to really live, how to believe in your future, how to let go and be truly happy.

 Do you remember when you were younger? How is that person different from who you are today?

What events lead up to you losing track of who you really are and what do you really want? What happened to that person, who was ambitious, happy without a penny but full of potential and excitement?

 So have a coffee and a cake with your younger self today! Visualise that person and what would they tell you? What can you learn? The good news is that that person is still living a quiet life inside you. Listen to that person.

Learn and listen!

 x Tineke