Are you moving through life as if you have an anchor attached to your feet that’s weighing you down? Imagine if you lightened the load, how much faster you could freely move through each day!
Perhaps you’re holding on to past hurts, anger, fear, or incompletions in your life. Losing these anchor weights could be the final step you need to move on from your past so you can fully embrace the future.
All of us have experienced challenges and regrets in our lives. It’s not the challenges or mistakes that define who you are. It’s how you respond to your past that determines your present and your future.
In Jack Canfield’s book, The Success Principles, principle #1 is to take 100 percent responsibility for your life. He teaches this powerful equation:
E + R = O
Event + Response = Outcome
How you think about the past can either be a great source of motivation, or it can interfere with your happiness and hold you back from living your best life. When you change your thoughts, you change how you feel. When you change how you feel, it changes how you act (your response). When you change how you act, you will experience different outcomes or results.
Changing your thoughts alone will not change your life. Empowering thoughts, combined with the right consistent actions, will create the results you desire.
Focusing on your past failures can be crippling to your self-esteem, your self-confidence, and your happiness. Recognizing that you have had successes in the past — and that you’ll have more success in the future — will give you the self-confidence necessary to move forward with whatever your heart desires.
Complete the past and embrace your future.
You cannot undo the past, and holding on to anger and resentment because of a past mistake or failure will slow down your journey toward the future you desire. When you don’t complete the past, you can’t be free to fully embrace the present and the future.
One thing that weighs many people down is something called an incompletion. An incompletion may be something that is irritating you – something you’ve been tolerating but have not done anything about, or it may be something you’ve had an intention to do but you haven’t done it. These incompletions can create such a feeling of overwhelm that you don’t know what to do next or where to begin in order to dig yourself out.
One way to shift from feeling overwhelmed to feeling at peace and in control is to clean up your messes. What is a “mess?”
Think of messes in your life as sticky notes on your brain. These sticky notes show up in the form of incompletions, tolerations, irritations, and physical, mental, spiritual and social messes in our lives.
The key to feeling at peace and in control is to manage your priorities. When you acknowledge and focus on your past successes, your subconscious will begin to work harder to attract the people and resources needed to help you honor your priorities, have more success, and achieve your ideal future.
This is such a popular topic that I wrote a blog several months ago — Managing the Sticky Notes of Life — that will help you drill deeper on this topic.
One of the great joys of being a coach is that I get to journey with my clients as they create the work and play they are most passionate about. When your passion, talents and skills intersect, there is no limit to what’s possible for you!
If you’d like to explore the possibility of working with me as your coach, let’s schedule a no-cost, no-pressure Discovery Call today. If I am not the right fit for you, I’ll offer some recommendations to get you connected with the right coach or other resources.
Additional Resources:
Blog: Managing the Sticky Notes of Life
Blog: Is Fear Running Your Life?
Blog: Balance Your Life: Environment 1 (Memetic)
Blog: Power in Your Purpose
Blog: The Key to Living the Life You Want
Blog: Create What You Want
Tips: Tips for Increasing Productivity
Guide: Creating New Habits
Guide: Living with Purpose
