Do You Drag Your Past Into Your Future?
You might be amazed when you read this article how much of the past you are dragging into today’s conversations and interfaces. You might cringe to learn how you are losing your present to your past. This old, not-working habit deserves your attention in changing it.
So many of us live in the past. We dwell on old guilts, old hurts, old failures. Going over and over these things in our minds becomes most important to us. We begin to do much of our living there paying for old failures, getting even over old insults or hurts, evening up the score. In all those cases, we’re allowing the past to dictate our futures.
Alternatives to being the best
Every day is an adventure and every road we go down gives us a choice, which way to go next. What would you choose, good or bad, right or wrong, the worst or the best. Let’s look at a few examples and see how frail and stupid we can all be, if we’re determined and really put our minds to it. The alternative, of course, is always better, but how many of us can choose that route?