“Go for it now. The future is
promised to no one.” -Wayne Dyer-
This week I feel like I’ve learned
a very valuable lesson that I hope I can always remember!! I would like to
share it with you. This past weekend I was put in a situation where I had to
make a pretty important decision. As I was trying to choose what to do I kept
having thoughts that started with “what if.” “What if this happened?” or “what
if that worked out?” As I thought about these concerns I noticed that they were
focused on the future and things that I don’t have control over. I realized
that there were no answers to the “what if” questions and that I needed to care
about the now and the things I already had and could change.
Steve Jobs once said, “you can’t
connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You
have to trust in something- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This
approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
As I was reminded of this quote I
thought of how we only have a say of what happens in the future by making wise
choices now. We never know what those choices will bring about but we can make
the best decisions by seeing what we have now in the present time. If we make our choices based on what we think
will happen in the future we will quickly find out that the future is always
changing. Now I’m not saying to forget about the future and the consequences our
choices will have on it but don’t base your decisions on the future because we
never know what will come about.
It was put
best by Ralph Waldo Emerson, ”With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the
future. I live now.”
Live and
choose in the now. The only thing we both know and have control over. And the
journey continues!!!
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