Maybe we made a big mistake or a few big mistakes and now we are having to deal with the consequences. Ok well…. Welcome to the world of being human.
Your past doesn’t have to predict your future unless you live there, unless you dwell on it because it’s happened. It’s done. The only place the past lives is in your mind. And I know some of you will say well it lives in other peoples minds as well…..but I gotta tell you…Not really….not as much as you would think. They’re more worried about their past than yours And anyway, that’s their issue, not yours, lets not even go there. Your job is you. And You’ve got a life to create. I don’t care what your past consists of. Let it go. And I always add this but if you have unhealed trauma that you haven’t gotten therapy for that’s different but if you are still dragging yourself through the mud because you slept with a married man 20 years ago, or you went bankrupt or you went through a tough divorce years ago you cannot continue to drag that stuff forward. Beating yourself up like that is the easy thing to do, it doesn’t take self discipline because it’s just so easy to think that way because that’s what your human brain does, if you haven’t noticed. It’s your job to notice these thoughts and use discipline by saying “That’s just a thought and I don’t have to believe it” Discipline allows you to say “I know who I am today and I am not my past mistakes”. That takes courage and you have that courage inside you, will you let yourself find it? And look it can be anything. Don’t use your past to destroy your future, because now that you have heard this you know you don’t have to, so it will be a choice.
You are not your past.
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