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How much of your future are you sacrificing to yesterday?
The other night while traveling, I had the opportunity to sit and talk with a very talented young man. As our conversation continued, he began sharing some of the trauma he had experienced in his life and how those experiences still affect him today.
As I listened, I could see something he was struggling to recognize. He had tremendous potential, but he was allowing the memories of yesterday to interfere with the possibilities of tomorrow.
I tried to explain that his past wasn’t necessarily what was holding him back. It was the habit of mentally returning to it, reliving the pain, rehearsing the fear, and allowing those thoughts to influence how he saw himself today.
Think about that for a moment.
Sometimes we become so accustomed to carrying our pain that we begin making it part of our identity. We forget that what happened to us is not necessarily who we are.
I explained that he didn’t have to forget his past. Those experiences helped shape the resilience and strength he carries today. But there is a difference between learning from an experience and continuing to live inside it.
Our thoughts create emotions, our emotions influence our actions, and our actions produce our results. When we continuously revisit yesterday’s pain, we risk allowing it to influence today’s possibilities.
Healing isn’t pretending something never happened. It is acknowledging what happened while learning to give the present more of our attention.
Today, recognize what your past has taught you. Appreciate the strength you’ve developed. And begin choosing thoughts and actions that support the person you want to become.
Your past is part of your story, but it doesn’t have to keep writing your future.
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 #strength #future #yesterday #potential
Background Photo Credit:
Martin Sanchez
The other night while traveling, I had the opportunity to sit and talk with a very talented young man. As our conversation continued, he began sharing some of the trauma he had experienced in his life and how those experiences still affect him today.
As I listened, I could see something he was struggling to recognize. He had tremendous potential, but he was allowing the memories of yesterday to interfere with the possibilities of tomorrow.
I tried to explain that his past wasn’t necessarily what was holding him back. It was the habit of mentally returning to it, reliving the pain, rehearsing the fear, and allowing those thoughts to influence how he saw himself today.
Think about that for a moment.
Sometimes we become so accustomed to carrying our pain that we begin making it part of our identity. We forget that what happened to us is not necessarily who we are.
I explained that he didn’t have to forget his past. Those experiences helped shape the resilience and strength he carries today. But there is a difference between learning from an experience and continuing to live inside it.
Our thoughts create emotions, our emotions influence our actions, and our actions produce our results. When we continuously revisit yesterday’s pain, we risk allowing it to influence today’s possibilities.
Healing isn’t pretending something never happened. It is acknowledging what happened while learning to give the present more of our attention.
Today, recognize what your past has taught you. Appreciate the strength you’ve developed. And begin choosing thoughts and actions that support the person you want to become.
Your past is part of your story, but it doesn’t have to keep writing your future.
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 #strength #future #yesterday #potential
Background Photo Credit:
Martin Sanchez
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Can your True Self survive every condition?
I have learned that one of the greatest tests of who you truly are is not what you say about yourself. It is who you become when life changes the conditions around you.
What happens when someone praises you? Can you receive it without allowing your ego to take over?
What happens when someone insults you? Do you immediately react and become someone you normally would not recognize?
What happens when you win? Can you remain humble?
And what happens when you lose? Do you suddenly become the victim and blame everyone and everything around you?
These moments reveal something important.
If your environment determines who you become, are you really free?
I see people who believe they are always the same person until the conditions change. Praise feeds the ego. Insults create anger. Success creates superiority. Loss creates blame.
Suddenly their energy, thoughts, emotions, and actions are being dictated by something outside of them.
That is giving away your power.
Real freedom is being able to experience all of these conditions while remaining connected to your True Self. Grateful. Compassionate. Empathetic. Forgiving with healthy boundaries. Humble enough to learn and strong enough not to allow someone else to determine your energy.
You cannot influence everything that happens around you. But you can become more aware of who you choose to be within it.
Pay attention today.
Notice who shows up when conditions change.
Your freedom begins when circumstances stop deciding who you become.
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
#freedom #true #change #power #become
Background Photo Credit:
Joshua Earle
I have learned that one of the greatest tests of who you truly are is not what you say about yourself. It is who you become when life changes the conditions around you.
What happens when someone praises you? Can you receive it without allowing your ego to take over?
What happens when someone insults you? Do you immediately react and become someone you normally would not recognize?
What happens when you win? Can you remain humble?
And what happens when you lose? Do you suddenly become the victim and blame everyone and everything around you?
These moments reveal something important.
If your environment determines who you become, are you really free?
I see people who believe they are always the same person until the conditions change. Praise feeds the ego. Insults create anger. Success creates superiority. Loss creates blame.
Suddenly their energy, thoughts, emotions, and actions are being dictated by something outside of them.
That is giving away your power.
Real freedom is being able to experience all of these conditions while remaining connected to your True Self. Grateful. Compassionate. Empathetic. Forgiving with healthy boundaries. Humble enough to learn and strong enough not to allow someone else to determine your energy.
You cannot influence everything that happens around you. But you can become more aware of who you choose to be within it.
Pay attention today.
Notice who shows up when conditions change.
Your freedom begins when circumstances stop deciding who you become.
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
#freedom #true #change #power #become
Background Photo Credit:
Joshua Earle
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Are you protecting your limitations or challenging them?
One of the hardest things for me to watch is someone with incredible potential live far beneath it.
Not because they lack ability. Not because they are incapable of more. But because somewhere along the way, they accepted a belief about themselves that became their truth.
“I cannot do that.”
“I am not good enough.”
“People like me do not succeed at things like that.”
Eventually those beliefs become a glass ceiling. You can see through it. You can see the life you want on the other side. But every time you try to rise, fear reminds you where you believe you belong.
Then ego steps in to protect the belief.
It would rather defend an old version of you than admit you might have been wrong about yourself. Fear of rejection, embarrassment, failure, or inadequacy keeps you traveling the same familiar road because familiar feels safer than uncertain.
This is where curiosity can change your life.
Instead of defending what you believe, challenge it.
Ask yourself, what if I am wrong about what I think is possible for me?
You have failed before. So have I. You have made mistakes. So have I. That does not define your potential. It proves you are human and still capable of learning.
Your greatest potential is not something you have to create. It has always been within you.
But you may have to question everything that convinced you otherwise.
Stop protecting your limitations.
Get curious enough to discover who you could become.
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
#potential #beliefs #curious #discover #exist
Background Photo Credit:
Josh Hild
One of the hardest things for me to watch is someone with incredible potential live far beneath it.
Not because they lack ability. Not because they are incapable of more. But because somewhere along the way, they accepted a belief about themselves that became their truth.
“I cannot do that.”
“I am not good enough.”
“People like me do not succeed at things like that.”
Eventually those beliefs become a glass ceiling. You can see through it. You can see the life you want on the other side. But every time you try to rise, fear reminds you where you believe you belong.
Then ego steps in to protect the belief.
It would rather defend an old version of you than admit you might have been wrong about yourself. Fear of rejection, embarrassment, failure, or inadequacy keeps you traveling the same familiar road because familiar feels safer than uncertain.
This is where curiosity can change your life.
Instead of defending what you believe, challenge it.
Ask yourself, what if I am wrong about what I think is possible for me?
You have failed before. So have I. You have made mistakes. So have I. That does not define your potential. It proves you are human and still capable of learning.
Your greatest potential is not something you have to create. It has always been within you.
But you may have to question everything that convinced you otherwise.
Stop protecting your limitations.
Get curious enough to discover who you could become.
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
#potential #beliefs #curious #discover #exist
Background Photo Credit:
Josh Hild
