Never Look Back - Always Make Progress

Never look back. Always make progress. It is easy to focus on the past, on how things once were, but spending your time and energy thinking about and focusing on the past comes with some downsides. By focusing on your past, you cannot focus on your now, and where you are now is because of your past. This is not to say that you are your past, in fact your past does not matter as much as you may think it does. The past has already happened, and it cannot be rewritten in any way. Focusing on the past is to focus on what you cannot control, and to focus on what you cannot control can cause you to feel helpless, frustrated, depressed, desperate, hopeless and perhaps angry in addition to many other things. Never look back, partially because you are not going that way, partially because it is pointless to do so, and partially because it takes your eyes off what you want your future to be and what you can and need to do today to get there. Never look