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Create Your Past
by Chris
Widener
Today is the day to create your
past!
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"Umm, Chris, don't you mean
today is the day to create your future?"
No, I mean exactly what I said.
Today is the day to create your past.
Let me explain. I did not say
today is the day to relive your past. That would mean sitting
around thinking about the things that have already happened and
things that you can do nothing about. You can't change them.
They are done. They need to be let go.
"Okay, I'm confused. What
do you mean then?"
I am talking about creating your
past! You see, most people talk about creating their future,
and in a way, that is what I am talking about here. You see,
Tomorrow is in your future. But two days from now, Tomorrow will
be your past. It will be your yesterday. |
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So, every day that we live is both
our present, but also what will be our past tomorrow.
For example, many people lament
their past. They say, "Oh I wish I would haven't done such
and such." Or "I was such a failure. I did this and
that and it was so bad."
So, if you sit around and moan
today about your past, then tomorrow you will look back at today
and say, "Yesterday was such a waste. I blew another day."
But if, instead, you work your
tail off today and accomplish something, then tomorrow you will
look back at your immediate past - your literal yesterday - and
you will say, "Boy, I really accomplished something!"
And if you string enough of those
together, pretty soon your past will be looking pretty good.
And a pretty good past will propel you to a pretty good present,
which will in turn be the platform for a pretty good future.
So what can you do to create
an incredible "past?"
Live for today. Do not relive
yesterday. Do everything you can today to make it an incredible
day. Whatever you would like to look back on tomorrow and see
as your accomplishment, do today.
Understand that just as your
current past took time to develop, your future past will too.
So you have a few years of bad past behind you. Who cares? Do
the right thing every day and you will one day look back and
see that you have a great past developing.
Some may say I am arguing semantics.
I am not. This is one of the mysteries of living in time and
space. Our future, given enough time, will actually become our
past. So no matter what our past is currently, we can change
it because each day we live, we see our past grow. What we do
today literally
creates our past! That is a powerful concept when we grab a hold
of it!
So, do you find yourself focusing
on your past? If so, take the time today - show the will power
and discipline - to create a day that tomorrow you will look
back on and be proud of! You can literally create tomorrow's
past and make it everything that you want it to be.
Someday you will get to the end
of your life and you will have only the past to look at. The
beauty of this concept is that if we are proactive, we can do
things today that will guarantee that on that day our past is
everything that we want it to be! |
