Trying
to change the past is like trying to fill water in a basket. It’s a waste of
time. You can’t change your past but you can create a better, brighter and
richer future. The more you look back the less you move ahead. David McNally said, “ Your past cannot be changed, but you can change your tomorrow by your
actions today.” Never let what happened yesterday swallow up your tomorrow.
Many
times what keeps us stagnant and behind from progressing and advancing in life
the mistakes, failures and obstacles of the past. Remaining a slave to the past
makes our lives miserable and unidirectional. I have met people who are still
trapped in their past achievements and successes. Instead of attempting greater
goals they are still celebrating their old goals which have been forgotten. A
goal achieved and celebrated is a finished goal. You need to put yourself to
work on achieving greater goals. Sticking with the past makes people to live a
goalless life. How do you know that you are living a goalless life? It is when
you wake up every day and have nothing to pursuer or do. If your life is like
this you have allowed your past success and achievements to become a snare. You
have to forget the past and set your focus in the greater victory and goals
ahead to be achieved. Thomas Jefferson said, “ I like the dreams of the future than the history of the past.”
Move
on into greater things that God has lay in
store
for you. Likewise, past defeats, failures and disappointments should not make
you bitter; negative and stagnant. Shake off the negative past and move into a
glorious tomorrow that awaits you. The fact that you had failed in the past
doesn’t mean that you are a failure. Every mistake can be corrected by
correction. God can lift you up from the miry clay and place your feet upon the
rock. Rise up and go forward not backward. The future is ahead of you not
behind. There is no future in the things of the past. Your past can’t equate
your future. People who live in the past have no future. You need to let go off
your past to have a future. The actor Ben Stein once said; “ We
don’t know what the future holds. But we can create.” You can create and design your future to be brighter and
colorful.
Many
of the men that became great and mighty in the hand of God had a terrible past.
Moses was a murderer who became a great leader. Rahab was a harlot who
delivered a nation. Paul was a persecutor of
the saints. But God used him mightily.
Your dirty past can be washed and transformed by his grace not with
disgrace. Forget the shame of your past and move into the fame of your glorious
future.
What
stopped you in the past can’t stop you now from living up your desired dreams.
You can still make impact and a difference no matter what had happened to you
in the past. As a Japanese proverb states; “Fall
down seven times, get up eight times.” After he lost his feet to cancer,
Terry Fox embarked on a cross Canada run called the Marathon of hope in 1980 to
raise money for cancer research. His shuffle and hop running style took him
about 24 miles per day close to a complete 26 mile marathon every single day
with an artificial leg!
He managed to
run for 143 days and covered 3,339 miles from his starting point in St. John’s,
Newfoundland, to Thunder Bay, Ontario, where he was forced to abandon his run
when doctors discovered cancer at his lungs. He died a few months later, but
his inspiring example has left a great legacy till date. The Annual Terry
Fox runs are held in Canada and around
the world. It is successfully raised about $340 million for cancer research.
Terry Fox was never defeated by his past and physical challenges. He strived to
make a difference in his life.
You
can also make a difference in your life despite your ugly situation. Nothing
can limit you except the limitation that you have placed upon yourself. Never
give up because you were rejected in the past. You can still get that love of
your life, that job and connection. It’s never too late to come true. The
rejected becomes the projected! Don’t feel dejected
and
defeated by past criticisms and rejections. Rejections shouldn’t determine your
direction, destination and position in life. Enda Ferber said, “
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck
muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.”
If
you are going to be great. You must be ready to accept rejections as part of
the success preparation, trials and test of yourself belief and how much you
believe in your dream. Rejections are part of life. To get over rejection, you
need to understand that rejection is a myth. It doesn’t exit except you give it
life to exist. It is a simple a concept that you hold in your mind. It’s never
too late to be great no matter how many times you were rejected. You can still
be great if you think you can. Every great achiever who has reached the top had
experienced one form of rejection or the other. You have to realize that you
are not the only one to be rejected.
When
Alexander Graham Bell offered the rights to the telephone for $100,000 to Carl
Orton, president of Western Union, Orton
replied; “ What use would this company make of an electrical toy.” In 1998
Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page approached Yahoo! and suggested a
merger. Yahoo! considered them to be too young. They insisted that the young
googlers keep working on their little school project and come back when they
had grown up. In five years, google had estimated market capitalization 0f $20
billion. George Owell’s animal farm was rejected in USA as story that will
never sell. Novelist Stephen King almost made a million dollar mistake when he
threw his Carrie manuscript in the garbage because he was tired of the
rejections. He was told that his manuscript will not sell. He got frustrated
and dumped it in the garage. Luckily his wife fished it out from the garbage.
The manuscript was later published by another publisher. Carrie later sold more
than 4 million copies and was made into a block buster film. Your rejections
are your elevation, promotion and stepping stone to success. See yourself ideas
as great ideas when they are rejected. See yourself as a great personality any
time you encounter rejection. Give up staying in the rejection, mistakes and
failures of the past and move forward towards achieving greater success. Never give up on yourself and life. Your past
is not your future. Paint a brighter picture for your future by forgetting
about your dirty and miserable past.
Think
less about your past or you lose your future. Think more about your future to
get lose from the ropes holding you to your past. Make a decision to never
regret and never look back. Your future is always forward not backward. You
can’t build on your past but sink into it and never be seen. Charles Kettering
said, “You can’t have a better tomorrow
if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. Your past doesn’t equal your
future.”
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