Day: May 4, 2021

You Cannot Go Back, But You Can Go Forward

On By BrightIn Personal Development, Personal Growth
Stylish black office worker with takeaway coffee strolling on crosswalk
Photo by Roberto Hund

It takes courage to live. And to live your life, you must have confidence in yourself. You must have confidence in your abilities to live your life in the present, in the moment, in the now.

Appreciate yesterday, but enjoy today. Today is all that you have right now. If you lose it, it will never come back to you.

Do not waste your time. Because you cannot go back, you can only go forward. In the words of Paulo Coelho, “No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tomorrow, when the sun rises, all you have to say to yourselves is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.”

Yes, today is the first day of your life. Today is a new day. Today is a new life. Today is a new beginning.

Whether you want to believe it or not, you have the power to change your life. Because every day is a new opportunity to live a new life. Every day is a new chance to reinvent ourselves.

Every day is a new start. It is an opportunity to run your own race. Today is your day. Live it.

How The Past Shapes Your Present

On By BrightIn Personal Development, Personal Growth
Brown Mountains
Photo by Roberto Nickson

You cannot live in the past, but you can live your full life in the moment. You cannot create a new life in the past, but you can create a new life in the moment.

You cannot do your best in the past, but you can do your best in the moment. So stop living in the past. Stop thinking about yesterday. It is over. It is gone! It has no control over your life any more.

The only way to live your full life is to dig deeper into your inner life. And you can only do that in the moment, not in the past.

If you want to enjoy your life, you must focus on what you are doing right now. According to Paulo Coelho, “Past and future exists only in our memory. … It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It is what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

If you want to redeem yourself, you must pay attention to what you are doing right now. Now has the power to change your future.

You do your best work when you pay attention to what you are doing now. Do not worry about the past. Do not worry about your tomorrow. Because if you take care of today, the moment, the present, tomorrow will take care of itself.