How do you know who you are? Likely, you add up all the events in your life that you can remember and this helps you form your sense of self or your identity. These moments in your personal history, whether glorious or terrible, are touchstones that you can't forget. They've left an impact--they won't be forgotten--and when you write an autobiography of yourself, these moments will inevitably be ...recorded.
Successful people, those people with robust senses of self-worth, remember the good, the diamonds, not the bad and the lumps of coal. They don't dwell on painful and embarrassing episodes from their past. They wouldn't even consider allowing these moments to define their identity. The trouble is that the further you go back in your past, the greater the chances are that who you were, or your "remembered" identity, doesn't match up with who you are. There were people who were incredibly popular or successful in JHS, SHS or even in the university but nowhere to be found afterwards. Then there are those people who made mistakes in their past, but those errors do not necessarily depict who they are now.
The past is gone. The future will come. But, what matters most is your present. Your NOW.
We shouldn't let remembered identity (the past) cheat us in the moment. While there's nothing wrong with looking back to the past to sort out your strengths and weaknesses, there is something wrong with holding onto the past and creating a picture of yourself that is someone who doesn't exist anymore
Think positive. Focus on your NOW because it will be your past soon. Make the best out of the moment. You are who you think you are.
Successful people, those people with robust senses of self-worth, remember the good, the diamonds, not the bad and the lumps of coal. They don't dwell on painful and embarrassing episodes from their past. They wouldn't even consider allowing these moments to define their identity. The trouble is that the further you go back in your past, the greater the chances are that who you were, or your "remembered" identity, doesn't match up with who you are. There were people who were incredibly popular or successful in JHS, SHS or even in the university but nowhere to be found afterwards. Then there are those people who made mistakes in their past, but those errors do not necessarily depict who they are now.
The past is gone. The future will come. But, what matters most is your present. Your NOW.
We shouldn't let remembered identity (the past) cheat us in the moment. While there's nothing wrong with looking back to the past to sort out your strengths and weaknesses, there is something wrong with holding onto the past and creating a picture of yourself that is someone who doesn't exist anymore
Think positive. Focus on your NOW because it will be your past soon. Make the best out of the moment. You are who you think you are.
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