April 2nd, 2008 Vitaly Grinblat
I heard a great quote on the radio today, by an unknown author.
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called present.”
That’s a great way to look at it. As far as our past is concerned, it’s gone. We can’t change it, only learn from it.
Jim Rohn says “Don’t use the past as a hammer, but use it as a book.” That’s a good outlook on the past. We can’t change it, so why waste our mental energy on it. All that does is recreates in the present, by us focusing on it.
Tomorrow is truly a mystery. We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. Goal setting, and dreaming about the future is very important, but we only live in the NOW, not in the future.
Even when we think and ponder about the future, we’re doing it NOW. So it’s the present, the now, where we have power. We only have power of what we’re doing right now.
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