#8 To Redeem the Past and to Transform Every ‘It was’ Into An ‘I wanted it thus!’ – That Alone Do I Call Redemption! (Friedrich Nietzsche)

How many times have I wished I could roll back time, and undo my stupid mistakes. But the will can only will forward, and life could only be lived forward. In today's episode I am breaking down Nietzsche's important key-lesson - redeeming our pasts, our mistakes, our failures, our regrets, so we could focus on what's important - our future. In the first part we’ll understand why we must find redemption, the kind Nietzsche is talking about, redeeming our past so we can achieve mastery in the future. Then we’ll understand what Nietzsche is telling us we must do to achieve it - there are three parts to this: To redeem the past, we must have responsibility. Responsibility is self governance, and it is freedom, and freedom means: ‘I wanted it thus!’ The second part is ownership. Owning our actions, their outcomes, our failures and successes.  The last part, which will allow us to have better options to choose from, increasing our ability to choose wisely, and feel empowered to own our lives, is positioning.