October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
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October 24Future Design
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a courageous heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Hyperion (1839)
The past is the past—except when we keep inviting it into the present where we create our future.
As we move through each day, our memories, charged with emotions from the past, unconsciously re-create these past emotions in our present reality. And the song stays stuck on repeat.
Okay, so if this is true—that we are limiting our progress by living in a predictable future predicated on the past—what if we told our brain to shut up about the past and we put everything we had into the present moment so we could live, today, in the future we design?
Simple, yes. Easy, maybe not.
Even though traditional advice on present-minded living suggests that you not consider the future, if by designing your desired future, without the baggage of the past, you are destined to create or will it into existence by your actions today, wouldn't that be a richer way to live?
“Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a courageous heart.”
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