“Just because you spent a long time making a mistake doesn’t mean you need to continue making it.”
There’s an incredible advantage in life for those who can separate past and future.
- Who can recognize sunk costs and walk away walk away from the past move on to new things.
- The challenge is like so many things our instinct is to preserve.
- “I’ve invested so many years”
- “I’ve spent x amount of dollars”
- “Maybe I don’t like where I’m at, but look how long it’s taken me to get here.”
Sometimes, the reality is that time is gone, and that money is not coming back no matter what you do, or what direction you take from here on out.
- There’s no reason to think you have to maintain the same trajectory, or hold on to a specific identity or pattern of behavior.
- Yesterday isn’t the focal point. What matters now and how will you get there.
You’ve grown, you’ve evolved, you’ve changed, and your targets have shifted, so why shouldn’t you?
- There’s no need to be a slave to previous decisions that you’ve made.
- Just chalk it up as an integral step in your learning process and aspect of growth, and move forward to what matters.
Re-source: Release
allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free
Think about the decisions you’ve made over the last year. Surely you’ve let factors affect your decision-making that are irrelevant to your goals.
- We feel this camaraderie with yesterday like there’s a debt to be paid, but life is too short to run in place.
- If it’s not pushing you forward, drop it.
- If it’s not what you need, forget it.
Don’t be one of those people who wake up and makes the same mistake every single day because you’ve spent a long time making it.
- Reality only exists in your head and that’s why it’s beautiful.
- You can unlock the cell door and walk out.
Don’t lose sight of the greatest gift you have – the new beginning.
- You can take a turn you’ve never taken before.
- Remove the mask and play a role you’ve never played.
- Let that sense of excitement pull you to new things.
- Let go of what you can’t change and then pursue what you can.
- Forget the time spent. Think of now and where you can invest now.
- Your surroundings didn’t magically arrive. You chose them, and you can just as easily leave.
- What is best for you now and how do you get there?
- Not where you feel obligated, expected, or pressured to be.
- Where do you need to be?
- Everything else is noise.
- Everything else is a rope keeping your ship on shore.
- You are not confined to that harbor or yesterday’s destination.
- You’re built to face the horizon. Follow your curiosity into the sunset.
You don’t make decisions based on yesterday’s story, you sculpt it with tomorrow’s possibility.
craving and resource from Your World Within – “Moving On (Recognizing Sunk Costs)”