We are told to remain present and live in the moment. While this is true it’s also good to reflect on the future. However, remember that reflecting doesn’t mean dwelling there. It’s okay to reflect on the future and still live in the moment. How? You can reflect on how your present actions will take you to a specific destination in the future. How are the actions you’re making now helping you get to where you want to be in the future? When you reflect on your future you set up goals, wishes, dreams and ambitions for yourselves. After this, you then live in the moment, taking a step in the direction of your dreams and goals.
As you go along this journey, there may be times where you reflect again on the future to see if you’re still on the right track. By reflecting on the future you can tell when something is wrong or when something is going as planned, but the good thing about the future is that it hasn’t happened yet, meaning there is still time to change it.
Let’s put this practically. Say you were an alcoholic, for example, but you wanted more for yourself. By reflecting on your future you can tell that you’re heading in the wrong direction, and if you keep heading down this path, you won’t reach that desired goal of being more. So what do you do? You have the choice and the opportunity to change that. How? By seeking help, changing your behaviour, learning to do things differently to get a different outcome. They say the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result. So, if you’ve tried and tried and things aren’t working, you’re not reaching your desired goals, and you’re not where you want to be, then maybe you need to rethink your approach. However, if you never reflected on the future you wouldn’t have known that you were heading in the wrong direction in the first place. When it’s too late, there’ll be nothing that you can do about it. Why wait to see where life takes you when you know that the actions you make today will be the thing that leads you to your future?
The last few posts have been on reflecting. Reflecting is good, and we should all do it often. By taking introspection on our lives we know where we’re heading, and if we don’t like the outcome we can work to change it. By reflecting on your past, you remember where you’ve been and realised that you’re no longer where you were because you’ve grown. By reflecting on the present, you can see where you are now. By reflecting on the future, you can see where your present actions will eventually take you. Reflecting is good because it helps us to analyse certain things, and lets us know that we’re growing and heading in the right direction. Keep reflecting, don’t dwell and keep growing.
As a Living Piece, we all have a part to play. You may be a piece by yourself, but together we create the bigger picture, the Masterpiece.
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