Want to succeed in life ? Let go of your past
Behind every great man and woman , there is a story . Life is not always a smooth sail and the road to success is not a rosy one . That ’ s why I believe that behind every successful person is an overcomer – a person who did not allow his or her past experiences or whatever life brought their way to stop them . Instead , they chose to fight and they overcame . No one will celebrate you because you chose to sit down and relax as things were going downhill or you gave up . Those who are celebrated and honoured are the ones who persevere until they get victory , which means that they do not settle for less because the road has become rocky and rendered impassable ; they keep on persevering no matter how challenging and diffcult the journey becomes ; they focus on their goals and push themselves until they win .
One of the things such have overcome is their pasts . Many of the successful people you see around have worse pasts , but they overcame them . Their birth places , upbringing and growing up is nothing to write home about and if their achievements were to be gauged on that , then it would prove to be impossible . No one plays an important role when it comes to our places of birth . You can do nothing about your past – you can ’ t change it because it ’ s all gone , but you can do something about your future .
Diffculties do not come our way to discourage or put us down . They come our way to give us tenacity and to make us tougher and stronger for the journey ahead . Many of us are trapped in our pasts and we have allowed them to play an important role into shaping us to what we have become today . That ’ s why we think the way we think and act the way we act . We use them as an excuse on why we can ’ t do something or explore other opportunities thus limiting ourselves . Others use them to determine how our future will look like thereby obstructing ourselves . Refusing to let go of our pasts , whether it ’ s hurt , pain , rejection , abuse or whatever it is and allowing them to become a part of us is fatal .
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