Shut out your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrow."
William Osler
Memory can be used for good or for evil. If we use our past as a source of learning, it’s worth remembering. If, however, all we do is mull over our mistakes and punish ourselves for our failures, it’s a waste of time. Rehashing or revisiting is such a waste of both time and energy. and can paralyze us into the fear of making another mistake. Which, of course, just makes this worse and practically guarantees future letdowns. The key to goal achievement is to pay more attention to the future than to the past. Have you ever noticed that the best athletes also have the shortest and most selective memories? Well at least before television and instant replay. Instead of dwelling on a missed shot or a flawed dive, they concentrate on making corrections and getting the next one right. It’s as if the failed attempt never happened. It’s forgotten and they don’t fear trying again. If we mess up, and who of us has not, work hard to leave it behind and concentrate on the possibilities yet to come. Tomorrow is much brighter when it’s not smeared with trying to remember all the mess ups we had yesterday.
We will all makes mistakes or misjudge something, but when that does happen we just need to try and learn something from it and move right on, ad always remembering, tomorrow we get a clean slate.
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