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Are you using your past for understanding or as an excuse?
There comes a point in life when we have to stop allowing our past to determine our future.
How you were raised matters. What happened to you matters. Your environment influenced the thoughts, beliefs, fears, and behaviors you developed. Understanding those influences can help you understand who you became.
But understanding your past is different from surrendering your future to it.
Eventually, awareness must become accountability. Once you recognize the patterns influencing your life, you gain the responsibility to decide whether you will continue repeating them.
You may not have chosen what happened to you, but you are choosing what happens next.
Your thoughts influence your emotions. Your emotions influence your actions. Your actions create your results. If you continue thinking from the identity created by your past, you will continue producing a future that looks remarkably similar to it.
Growth begins when you become present enough to recognize that you have another choice.
Stop asking who is responsible for who you became and start asking who is responsible for who you become next.
You are.
Healing requires participation. Growth requires responsibility. Change requires action.
Your past can provide understanding without becoming an excuse. Learn from it. Accept it. Forgive where you can. Release what no longer serves you. Then consciously begin creating the person you know you are capable of becoming.
You cannot rewrite yesterday.
But you are writing tomorrow with every choice you make today.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#past #became #choices #become #future
Background Photo Credit:
Vladimir Kondratyev
There comes a point in life when we have to stop allowing our past to determine our future.
How you were raised matters. What happened to you matters. Your environment influenced the thoughts, beliefs, fears, and behaviors you developed. Understanding those influences can help you understand who you became.
But understanding your past is different from surrendering your future to it.
Eventually, awareness must become accountability. Once you recognize the patterns influencing your life, you gain the responsibility to decide whether you will continue repeating them.
You may not have chosen what happened to you, but you are choosing what happens next.
Your thoughts influence your emotions. Your emotions influence your actions. Your actions create your results. If you continue thinking from the identity created by your past, you will continue producing a future that looks remarkably similar to it.
Growth begins when you become present enough to recognize that you have another choice.
Stop asking who is responsible for who you became and start asking who is responsible for who you become next.
You are.
Healing requires participation. Growth requires responsibility. Change requires action.
Your past can provide understanding without becoming an excuse. Learn from it. Accept it. Forgive where you can. Release what no longer serves you. Then consciously begin creating the person you know you are capable of becoming.
You cannot rewrite yesterday.
But you are writing tomorrow with every choice you make today.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#past #became #choices #become #future
Background Photo Credit:
Vladimir Kondratyev
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