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 3/12/2007 |
Your future belongs to you
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I ran across a line in a news story the other day. Quoting some speaker, the story quoted the speaker as saying “they tell the future by looking at the past.”
Well, with all due respect to those people who think the best way to foretell future events is by looking at history, the best way to foretell the future is by making it yourself.
I’m a student of history, and although I believe we can gain some insights on how people will act towards an event by examining how they reacted in the past, altogether too much attention is paid to the past. People are not machines.
The computer sitting on my desk can be trusted to do the same thing each time it receives the same stimulus. Each time I press a letter on the keyboard, my computer inserts that letter into the document I am writing.
In other words, the power of the computer is its consistency. Keyboard and system failures aside, this computer will consistently provide the same results, each and every time, no matter how long may transpire between the first keyboard press and the last.
People, however, are inconsistent, and evolving. The response of a person to a certain stimulus depends on a myriad of differing things – from a person’s past experience to what the person had to eat for breakfast – or if they even had breakfast.
People cannot be trusted to deliver the same response to the same stimulus each time -- and that’s the beauty of it. The great strength of the human race lies in its ability to impact the future to a significant amount, often by just making little changes in behavior.
One man or woman can make a significant difference in tomorrow by making a small change today.
The future belongs to those people who actively reach for it. Like a sculptor who defines the contour and shape of a statue, by defining the future, each of us can help sculpt it to match what we need our future to become.
In our own lives, as well as the lives of those who we touch, our future is largely defined by the decisions we make today. The course that we set, the changes we make, the life plan we follow today determines the future destination we arrive at.
So what can we do today?
We can do our best to make smart decisions that influence the future in the most positive way.
We can cease allowing our past mistakes to dictate our future – we can stop letting our future course be dictated by forever looking in the rearview mirror.
We must commit ourselves to a positive future, no matter what may have happened in our past, and always remember the importance of staying on the right path to success.
Our future path is ours to choose. Let’s choose to make it a positive path.
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