The past does not equal the future.
Because you may have failed a moment ago,
all day today,
or for the last six months,
or for the last sixteen years,
or for the last fifty years of your life
doesn't mean anything.
All that matters is
what are you going to do now?”

--Tony Robbins

What a tough question!! Many of us live in the past, without realizing it. We live our lives, day to day, not being satisfied with it. We long for things we dreamt of. Dreams "unlived". Both big and small. But something happened to get in the way. Maybe work or family life or crisis. Maybe fatigue or stress or poor planning. Sometimes we make a mistake and we allow it to cripple us! When we examine the problem, we become afraid and we stop moving. We live in the past. In the Land of Yesterday. Or sometimes we are so busy that our problem is inaction. We don't even try. And the dream becomes farther away. We blur the dream in our minds so that we don't focus on it. And we forget the dream. Or we become bitter. We want to complain, yell at the world, yell at ourselves. We waste so much time and energy, just living in Yesterday.

Instead, if we use that negative energy in a positive way, by focusing on what we can do RIGHT NOW, we can begin to live in another place. A place of our dreams. But we cannot get there by looking back at yesterday. We cannot move forward if we get lost in "Why did this happen?" or "Why did I do that?" We must forgive our mistakes. Blaming ourselves is not helpful. We must not abuse ourselves and cripple our self esteem. Why are we doing that??!! Of course we make mistakes, we are human!! Life is also not perfect. Sometimes bad things happen. But God does not intend for us to live in the Past Sorrows and Past Mistakes. He wants us to focus on the positive and the potential of today! We cannot change the past. But we can change today. Only if we try. But we have to do something!!


We are not the past because we breathe in the Right Now. So why must we pretend that we are not breathing? Why are we holding our breath?? The bad things already happened and we survived. So let's make the choice to stop surviving and THRIVE.

"What are you going to do now?" If you could choose one dream, what would it be? Now stop thinking about the "Buts" and the "I cant's" and just focus on "I can."

Let's live and dream in color and passion and allow the past to blur and fade away.


To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. --William Shakepeare

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson