Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your past and past behaviors can slow you down time and time again. It is easy to start or continue your negative stories, ‘I can’t talk to people, and I’m too shy. No one will like my work. I don’t have any talent’……and on and on and on. Don’t you get tired of lugging this baggage with you where ever you go? I do!
The good news is you don’t have to carry this baggage any longer. Embrace a ‘beginners mind’. What is this? It is the ability to see each day, each moment, with a fresh, innocent mind…. a beginners mind. It is the ability to approach each day with renewed interest, gratitude and wonder. You might have made mistakes in the past, you might have disappointed others, but it’s over and there’s nothing you can do about it. When I find myself focused on my mistakes I deliberately sit and repeat to myself……let it go, let it go, let it go. This sounds hokey but it works.
Each day, each moment is a new opportunity to be the person you want to be. Don’t let past negative experiences stop you from getting what you want.