Here's something interesting to do, should you find yourself bored or lacking motivation to do anything significantly productive for a particular five minute time span. Open up your Google calendar, or other competing online calendar tool, and add an event to the current date, but one year ahead, titled 'This time last year'. In the event description, add a few sentences about where you are, what you're doing, what you expect to be doing, or what you expect that you should not be doing.

You've now created your 'message to the future', which will be read by your future self when it arrives in his/her time. Now, save the event and start its travels forward through the twisted, yet individually linear, passages of time. It generally takes about a year for the message to reach its destination, at which point your future self will receive the message and find out what your current self was thinking or doing, thinking of doing or not doing.

Also, try sending a message two years out, maybe even further if you dare. Be warned though, the message will take longer to reach your future self if you send it to a destination that is farther into the future. Should you someday receive a 'message from the past', be sure to read it, smile wryly, and heed the advice, should any be given.

Stay tuned for a tip on how to respond to a 'message from the past'.