Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

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We are paralysed by the ideas of “if only I had done that”, “if only I chose that” , “I have invested so much in this, I can’t change track now”……………because we tell ourselves the story that what we are now is due to our earlier decisions and actions. So we spend all our time and energy wishing we had started differently or done differently.   And we choose to tell ourselves that we can’t change anything now due to past actions which have not brought the results we wished for.

 

Hey, discard all of the past!

 

At any given time, we cannot go back and start a new beginning. But we can start today and make a new ending.

 

There is a very good question we can ask ourselves. So what?

 

Yes, we invested years and thousands of dollars to get our law degree. Now I realise that’s not what I want to do and the result I want and I feel a calling to do something else I have always wanted to do………..start a charity for children suffering from cancer.

 

“But I can’t change anything because I have invested so much in the past.”

 

There is only one thing one can ask oneself. So what?

 

Once we have the guts to ask ourselves “so what?”, we give ourselves the permission to release the past, and look at the present moment as the only moment to consider in our decision for the future.

 

Once we let go of the past, which nobody can go back to. And we can start a new beginning in the present moment, and make a new ending.

 

I am curious, if you knew that holding onto the past is what’s holding you back, would you wait one more second longer to dump the past?