For many years, I suffered from the effects of depression, and I felt that I was living in someone else's body. I failed at almost everything I tried and struggled to simply go through the motions of a typical day.
Little did I realize until some ten years after the tragedy, that I was living in the past. I was holding on to the fact that something unfortunate happened to me, and it was defining who I was and what I should have expected from myself. In other words, I was excusing my behaviors by always going back to the fact that I had lost my mother when I was a teenager.
Then something remarkable happened...I realized I had a choice. I could simply choose not to let that moment define who I was anymore. I could choose to create my own destiny, and create whatever future I wanted. I became liberated of the shackles of a victim mentality, and I freed myself to look to the future and consider the possibilities, instead of looking to the past and wondering what might have been.
I am sure many of you have suffered through worse than I have. Perhaps some of you are holding on to the past. Maybe some of you are hanging on to resentment or sour feelings toward someone else, and that is shaping how you relate to that person.
What's holding you back? Maybe it's time to make a choice...A simple choice...A choice to stop looking in the rear view mirror and start looking ahead toward the horizon. Let's choose to let the future define the future. Let's make a simple choice to set and work toward accomplishing our goals. The choice is simple, and trust me, the results are powerful!
Here's to the future!
Best wishes,
-Victor
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