Your Life Is A Reflection Of Many Choices You Have Made

Ethnic woman embracing knees and suffering from anxiety
Photo by Alex Green

Steve Maraboli writes, “Your life is a reflection of many choices you have made at the innumerable amount of choice-points you’ve crossed.” Life is about choices. Don’t worry about the bad choices you have made in the past. You can’t change the past, but you can change your future. You can change your future by paying attention to what you are doing right now. What you are doing right now is shaping your future.

You can change your life today. Don’t let your bad choices hold you back. Don’t let your past mistakes hold you back. If you want to change your life, you must change yourself. You can change your life by taking advantage of the opportunities around you. “Don’t sleepwalk through your life”. If you delay yourself, the opportunity will not be there for you. If you want to catch it, you must wake up. You must not sleepwalk through life.

Once you have made up your mind to pursue something, don’t think too much about it. Because if you spend your entire life thinking about it, you will cripple yourself. Once you know what you want for yourself, for your life, for your family, then make your decision and then do it. Don’t wait. Don’t wait for the perfect time to do something. There is no such thing as a perfect time. If you want to do something, if you really mean it, do it today.

If you want to get something done in your life, you have got to do it yourself. You have got to follow your path. You have got to do your own thing. Allen Ginsberg said, “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” If you wait for someone else to do it for you, you are going to wait forever. Make up your mind for yourself. And you will get what you want.

Improving The Moment

Active man riding skateboard on city bridge
Photo by Allan Mas

Living in the moment

Is the foundation for everything.

But you cannot improve the moment

If you don’t live in the moment.

And to improve the moment,

You must live in the moment,

Not in the past.

The past is gone.

It will never come back again.

You are not living there anymore.

You are living in the moment.

You job is to face your future, not your past.

Face your future without fear,

And with a positive mind.