Dying to self means exchanging everything you’ve ever been for everything you’ll ever be.
“For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.” — Jeremiah 29:11, The Amplified Bible
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day.” — Habakkuk 2:3, The Amplified Bible