You are not your past. You are not your yesterdays.
- When others see you as “bad,” they don’t want you to change, because they want to continue being “right” about you.
- This allows them to justify how they are treating you.
- When other people see you as “good,” they don’t want you to change, because they want to continue being able to “depend” on you.
- This allows them to justify how they expect you to treat them.
What you are invited to do is live in the moment. Create your Self anew in the Present moment.
- This allows you to separate your Self from your former ideas about you.
- a remarkable percentage of which are founded in other people’s ideas about you
Do not seek to forget your past; seek to change your future.
- You have decided not to repeat certain behaviors ever again.
- Let go of your past. It does not mean forgetting it. It means stopping the holding on and clinging to your past as if you are going to drown without it.
- You are drowning because of it.
- Even people with a wonderful past are not served by holding onto it as if that is Who They Are.
- This is call “resting on you laurels,” and nothing stops growth faster.
Neither rest on your laurels nor dwell on your failures. Rather, start over; begin anew in each golden moment of Now.
Re-source: Recreate
to create again, especially to form anew in the imagination : to give new life or freshness to
Change behaviors that have become habitual, or character traits that have become ingrained by asking yourself one simple question: Is this Who I Am?
- It is not a process of discovery; it is a process of creation.
- You cannot “discover” Who You Are.
- You are not deciding this based on your discoveries, but rather, based on preferences.
Do not be who you thought you were, be who you wish you were.
- It’s the biggest difference of your life. Up to now you’ve been “being” who you thought you were.
- From now on you are going to be a product of you highest wishes.
- Remember, it’s not about changing, and thus suddenly becoming acceptable. You’re acceptable right now.
- You are only changing because you choose to change.
- You choose a newer version of your Self.
Be the grandest version of the greatest vision you’ve ever had about who you are.
- “Is this who I am?” – this question will bring you to that.
- It can be transformational.
- It is powerful because it contextualizes what is happening.
- It makes it clear what you are doing.
Creating ourselves is the purpose of all life.
- Every decision you make – every decision – is not a decision about what to do, It’s a decision about Who You Are.
- Begin to see life a new way. Turn all events, occurrences, and situations to opportunities to do what you came here to do.
craving and resource from “Friendship with God” by Neale Donald Walsch
