#122: Drop your history

History’s purpose is to get you where you are now. However, if you think that this ‘now’ is a good place, then you run the risk that your history will stop you moving into the future.

The secret to the future lies in knowing what of your history to put down and what to carry.

A deep-sea diver needs a weight-belt in the water, but struggles with it on land. The lead of his weight-belt serves a real purpose, but only at the right time and in the right element. It is easy to feel when lead weight becomes dead weight. It is not so easy to feel the weight of your history, mainly because it is who you are.

And society does not help – you are valued far more for what you have already achieved, than for what you may still contribute.

Nevertheless, it is up to you to stop this nonsense. If you don’t, then your history will keep you as you are now instead of freeing you to become all that you can be.


I’m james@nonsenseatwork.com

Copyright: 2007 James Henry McIntosh

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