The only place in time that we create our future is in the now. If, now, you’re thinking thoughts of the past, then your focus could be creating more of the same. During any one day, we travel in time in our minds, into our memories of the past, into the future we hope for or dread and some of the time, here in the now.
I remember meeting a 52 year old woman sometime ago under the most adverse conditions the specifics of which I shall leave out.
When starting a new work out program, work schedule, way of doing things or adopting any new change in your life it’s not going to be the easiest thing that you’ve ever done. In actuality, it will most probably be one of the hardest things you’ve ever done.
Usually when people consider doing things they’ve talked themselves out of taking the action long before they’ve even begun. All the reasons why they ‘can’t’ begin to loom large and before they know it their dreams seem so bleak that they cast them aside without a moment’s consideration.
When in the middle of a situation that you don’t particularly want to be in I think the most important skill to have is that of ‘looking back’.