Let go of the past and the past will let go of you.
You can never change what has happened in the past but you can make your future brighter by remembering your past and learning from it. One of the greatest things we are given as humans is the ability to learn from our past experiences, whether they are wins or pitfalls.
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do.
I'm sure we have all wanted to go back in time and be who we used to be, especially when someone that we used to love was around. For instance many of us who have lost close loved ones unexpectedly and suddenly are left with feelings of resentment and the cluelessness of what may have been if that person was able to stay around longer.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Creating your future is a job for you and only you, because only YOU truly know where YOU want to go in life. A lot of us live our lives in the hopes of becoming someone that we always wanted to be, while only a few of us will truly be brave enough to go after our dreams. Do you believe that you can do all of the things that everyone else might tell you that you can't? Do you believe in working hard, and working harder when you fall short of a goal? Do you believe that you can overcome the voices of everyone around you, even the one inside of you that may doubt your capabilities, and the attainment of your dreams?
Stop cheating on your future with your past...it's over.
The future has yet to be written, have you yet picked up a pen? Your time to start is now! Stop making excuses, stop living in the past, and stop thinking about what little you have now. It isn't about what you have now, its about what you will have in the future if you are just willing to risk losing what little you have now. Remember that failure will come, and adversity will make its presence known as you try to better yourself as well. Never let these things stop you from becoming the person that you know you truly want to become.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
What are some things that you are doing in your life that will make you proud in a day from now, a month from now, a year from now, or a decade from now? If you don't have anything that you have done in your life in your past now is the time to change it, and to live for creating the best possible future for yourself while you still can. A very important part of living life is planning it.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. -Denis Waitley
To continue to achieve in life, a person has to be willing to set goals for their lives. Without any sense of direction a person will just blow in the wind, falling and following every single thing that may cross their paths. Instead of being a victim to the plethora of choices that must be made in each day, a person has to be willing to stick to making decisions that represent who they are, and where they are trying to go in life.
Cleaning up the past will always clear up the future.
Sometimes we make messes so big, that no matter what we do, we just can't clean them up. This especially relates to the wrongs we have committed in our pasts that will inevitably force us to keep messing up in the present. Only God can make things right that we know will affect us for years to come. You have to remember that the person that you used to be doesn't have to be who you are today.
Don't let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.
Don't let the disappointments of your past keep your present from being as great as it should be. There are many instances in our lives in which we may all want to just give up and give in because our lives have never went the way we may have wanted it to. We may start to live our lives after a real bad period, and see things turning for the worse as we did before, and just give up on life as it is period, many of us have been there before.
What takes us back to the past.. are the memories. What brings us forward.. is our dreams.
The only things that should take us back to the past are the memories we made with the people that were in our lives in our pasts. What should bring us forward are our own dreams for our future. In order to set legitimate, and real goals for our future we must in a sense, forget about the past. We can't let mistakes or regrets from our pasts drive us forward in our lives.
The reason so many people find it so hard to be happy is that they will always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Keeping a positive outlook is one of the hardest challenges to overcome, but is crucial in the pursuit of anyone's happiness. We will all face difficult times in our lives, but the truest test besides overcoming these obstacles, is how much we may let the challenge bring us down. Of course it is best to not let your circumstances weigh you down at all, and it is also best to keep a smile on your face, along with the most positive attitude possible. This is way easier said than done, but is very possible.