Every day is a new opportunity to move forward in life and change if you so desire it.

Would you choose to revisit an old version of yourself if you had the choice? Or are you content with the present you and wouldn’t mind erasing any memories of the old you? Or on the contrary, do you sit and constantly daydream of the future you?

Though I cherish some fond memories of childhood, adolescence and early adult years, I would so rather be right here, right now in this current moment of my life knowing what I know now, having had experienced more of life — having risked more and ventured more.

Also, I believe it’s normal to speculate on the future self as well, and sometimes it can be challenging for me to stay focused on the NOW. There are some advantages to looking towards the future and imagining what life can hold for you. Call it manifesting, dreaming big, or simply setting lifelong goals for yourself. Creating a list of wants and detailing the trajectory of those wishes is essential to inching you closer to happiness. The detriment in this way of thinking comes when too much planning prevents actual action and waiting for the perfect moment (which may never come) to begin your plan/initiate change/get you closer to your goal(s).

Does the idea of change frighten you? Are you attached to that former self or simply the memories of you then, and fear that evolving may mean forsaking those memories?

Or is change more scary because it means admitting that something is not going well for you currently in your life — admitting imperfection or unhappiness?

Or is the actual idea of change just overwhelming? Perhaps you don’t know where to even start or how your master plan could ever come to fruition?

I may not know the answers to all these questions I put out there but here is what I have come to realize in working on myself (personal development) and my business the past few years:

  • Change can be uncomfortable, even if it’s an exciting endeavor in which you anticipate
  • The more you put yourself in uncomfortable situations, the more practice you get
  • With more practice, comes more situations to fail
  • And with more opportunities to fail come more chances to succeed
  • Listen to your gut — if you think you’ve reached your plateau, it’s probably time to take a different direction in life
  • Don’t know where to start? Just start somewhere and fine tune along the way
  • Nothing is wrong with changing often — don’t let other opinions of life dictate your life

What I do know is that the past is the past and learning to let go and move on so that you can fail, grow, learn and actually live life is probably the way to go…at least for me (don’t take my word for it).


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