You Can’t Achieve Success Living in the Past
Boy, if only I had/hadn’t …… Life would be so different now.
If I were ranking emotions and mental activities in terms of usefulness, regret would be right near the bottom of the list. We all recognize that things would be different, i.e. better, had we done or not done certain things in the past, and some of those things can have pretty strong emotions attached to them. But there’s a big difference between that and the almost chronic hang-dog state of “if-only”. In fact, living in the past with “if only’s” is a primary reason people do not achieve success.
Regret is an interesting emotion: the person apparently feels bad about something they did or didn’t do. Some individuals feeling regret manage to make you feel bad in the process. So bad, in fact, that you go out of your way to make them feel better. You can definitely help some individuals, but you also come across individuals who never feel better no matter what you do.
To achieve success you have to look forward. Learn your lessons from past mistakes, and then let them go. And while you’re at it, let go of the mistakes others have made, too.
Learning how to let the past stay in the past is a vital entrepreneurial skill.
How very very true. We must realise that the future is all that we must focus on as the past is gone and can’t be changed. Learn from it and power forward and live a great life from here.
Thankyou Shane Krider and Polaris Media Group….I am forever grateful…Chrissy.