I know I am guilty of this, and even worse is when you know what you did in the past that has made your present day situation what it is and most likely not what you desired it to be but you are struck by fear of making even worse mistakes by moving forward.  Think about the last five years of your life, tick, tick, tick.  Alright, now if you can, think about the last five new years resolutions you made (at least one for each of the five years of your life.).  Now how many of those new year resolutions were about making some huge change in your life.  A change that you know you need to make, want to make and desire to make, yet one month into the new year you are still openly doing the same thing that on December 31st you said you were going to stop doing.  And what is even worse is when you and a friend or significant other say that you will encourage each other to keep on the straight and narrow as to accomplish your goal, yet the two of you can’t seem to help each other out.  You fail and they turn a blind eye, then, they fail and you turn a blind eye, because it is only courteous to not point out a friends fault even though they have stated that they want to leave that habit behind.

So what does it take to step into the future with confidence?  Of course when a task is new it seems to be that thing that you have been waiting for and you have all these fresh ideas that seem like they will work out flawlessly.  Uh oh, guess what?  Here comes reality, the expected, unexpected, and all of those things that you failed at in the past, all the way back to elementary school.  In hindsight it seems that it’s not about the confidence its about not letting the past run your future.  It’s the previous events that we fall back on to find confidence in oneself for future journeys.  Our human mind seems to glorify the failures and minimize the successes, therefore leading to a fear of the future.  We have all seen it in ourselves since an early age, but never knew how to deal with it  so we try to get or use “things” to cover it up.  Stop and think about what that “thing” is for you.  I know, I know, you don’t have that problem because you have hit all the goals that you have ever wanted to hit in life.  Since that is you answer, I am happy to say that I know what your “thing” is, it’s denial.  Come on now, think about it.  Now that you have that “thing” visualized what made you decide that this “thing” is what can fill the void of failed journeys.  It is almost symbolic to the blanket the kid in charley brown carried around with him.

Now that we have isolated what seems to be crucial factories to letting old dreams die, I shall start to embark on my next journey into my entrepreneurial endeavors.  Of course the last one didn’t turn out the way I had hoped but like I discussed earlier, if you know what you did in the past then you can adjust what you will need to do for the future.  Those adjustments are not going to be a quick fix in most cases.  There will be plenty of more new set backs and adversities, but if you can stay focused on a greater cause than your own, you will find that the journey is well worth it.

God Bless,

Traydadude