Living in a Forward Fashion

It’s December 2008 and the year is nearly over. And yet – where did it go?

It seems like we can spend inordinate amounts of time waiting for this to finish or that to be over and never really looking forward to a beginning.

And, some of us have spent our time wishing and wondering how we can “fix” the past 11 months. Perhaps you’ve been laid off (or fired) or looking for a job that will fulfill your dreams.

Maybe a relationship has ended badly (or several), maybe you are wondering if your dreams are still worth pursuing – you’ve been spending time in deep reflection.

You can no more change what you see in hindsight than you could the actions of the past.

We convince ourselves that we’ll be careful of “this” and not do “that” again, but life cannot be edited backwards. You have to make the changes along the way so you can live in a forward fashion.

The person you were in high school, or  college or even yesterday is not the same person that’s reading this post now.

Relying too much on past mistakes to steer you clear of future problems is trickier than it looks.

Living forward means understanding past troubles as exactly that – the past. What you knew then is so much more than what you know now.

So, embrace that and embolden yourself to take as may steps forward as you can.