Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now.
- You can go in there, but you don’t live there anymore.
- You can go visit, but it isn’t home any more.
- Home is here now.
Each second of this present is precious.
- Don’t waste any drops of precious time spending too much time in that old room.
If you’re revisiting the past because of regrets, then you need to be clear that you can’t go back and undo what you’ve done.
- We’ve all made bad decisions that have adversely affected people around us that we professed to love but whom we treated disgracefully.
- If you hang on to guilt, you’re only damaging yourself.
Don’t miss what is happening now because you were too busy looking back, or later you’ll be busy looking back at this time and wondering why you wasted it.
- Live here, live now, live in this moment.
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We all have to leave good stuff behind and find new challenges, new areas to inspire us.
- Every day that we wake up is a fresh start, and we can make of it what we want, write what we want on the blank canvas.
Keeping enthusiasm going can be tough – a bit like trying to take up exercise.
- The first few times are impossibly hard, but if you persevere, then one day you find you’re jogging, walking, swimming without conscious effort.
- Getting going requires immense powers of concentration, enthusiasm, dedication, and perseverance to keep at it.
craving and resource from “The Rules of Life” – A personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life – by Richard Templar