I’m teaching an intensive class (breathtakingly life-changing!!).
We talked a lot about focusing on the future,
And how powerful that is.
Most of us are past-focused.
We spend a lot of time thinking and talking about the past,
And how different we/our lives would be if our past had been different.
There’s no end to this because, of course, no matter how much we argue with it,
the story never changes.
And we never get to feel better.
I like to think that the past happened exactly as it was meant to happen.
All of it.
It’s not always easy to do, especially when really hard things happen,
like losing someone you love earlier than you think was fair.
So I don’t try to figure out why it was supposed to happen.
And I don’t try to tell myself it was for the best.
Just that it was clearly meant to be this way.
How do I know?
Because it did.
No further explanation needed, because if I try to find an explanation, I’m back there again,
living in the past and arguing with it.
I find that when I accept that the past happened exactly as it was meant to happen,
It frees me.
It neutralizes the painful parts.
And it allows me to be in the present,
And to focus on my future,
Which is where all possibility lies.
Sometimes, when I’m in the place of acceptance,
I will get insights about why things did happen the way they did,
Which never happens when I’m spinning around in my head with regrets and arguments.
My brain can only focus on one thing at a time successfully
(maybe it’s only me?)
And so it makes sense to me to focus on my future,
Which I can impact and influence,
Rather than my past, which is never going to change.
I’m opening The Hunger Games in November.
It’s a brand new class (video conference – you can join from your bedroom!)
with all new material,
and we’re going to be focusing on the future.
That’s because I want to teach you how to believe in a future that you can create,
No matter what your past has brought you.
Focusing on our power to affect our lives.
I’m so excited!!!
I’d love you to join me – email me if you want to know more about it and we’ll arrange to talk.