The First and Most Important Step on Your Journey to Success

A New Attitude For A New Day

1st step to success is:

You must put the past behind you and focus on your future.

Napoleon Hill, “What the mind of the man can conceive and believe it can achieve”

Attitude is everything!

If you continue to dwell upon your past failures losses and disappointments, you cannot advance your life forward.

Spending time thinking about them will have a negative effect on your emotions and immobilize you from taking action. You have no doubt experienced this negative feeling. Everyone has at one time or another. The fact is anyone who has ventured outside of his or her comfort zone has experienced huge disappointment and failure.

Are you haunted by the past?

Are you preoccupied with the memory of negative experiences?

Jim Rohn, We must not beat ourselves to death with past mistakes false failures and losses, the greatest opportunity today brings with it the opportunity to begin the process of change. 

Here’s how you learn from your past:

1. Acknowledge your mistakes: When you make a mistake accept responsibility for the decision that lead to the mistake. Denial leads to repetition of the same mistakes and sends your self image into a downward spiral. Identify what drove you to make the mistake. Often Mistakes can revile a new part of you. Address them and make the needed changes. Don’t be discouraged if this process takes 5 minutes a couple hours or perhaps even days. 
2. Don’t stay stuck in the mud: Holding on to disappointments can cause you to be bitter and depressed, instead learn from your disappointments and get excited about becoming the person you need to be to achieve your goals and live the life you desire. In the words of Oscar Wild, “What seems to us as bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.

Here’s what you need to do to create your future:

1. Maintain a positive attitude: Look at challenges as opportunities to become a better person. The times where I have grown the most have been followed by my major failures. I am convinced that you can work through any challenge that comes your way, if you look at it as a chance to improve.
2. Develop your self control: This will require a concise effort. Every time you find yourself thinking about one of your failures, have a firm conversation with yourself. Say,” I can’t changed what’s happened. I’ve learned all I can learn. I refuse to think about it any longer.” Then using self control change your thought process.
3. Don’t compare yourself to others: No matter what you’ve experienced there are people who’ve
   had it better than you and there are people who’ve had it far worse. I’ve seen some very gifted people miss golden opportunities, because they were concerned with what other people were doing and how they were getting ahead. Instead concentrate on your own personal growth.

Here’s my challenge to you draw a line in the sand to separate your past from your future and begin focusing 100% of your emotional energy on creating a fulfilling future. If you truly know what you want and are willing to do what it takes to achieve it, you can live the life of your dreams.

Dwelling on the events of yesterday causes you to miss the fun and excitement of today and the anticipation of what tomorrow may bring.

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