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Being a geek, an affinity for data comes naturally to me. It usually gives me a lot pride in knowing how my team, at work, did in the past or whether following a different process to finish a project could have been better.
The strategy to understand past actions and get better can, however, be a two-edged sword. What if the past holds us back from moving forward? The best friend, our previous experience, might turn into our worst enemy if we let is become a baggage for us.
While we deal with failure in our lives (all of us do at some point), the idea should be to learn from our mistakes but not base our future on the fact that we might have failed at the task once in the past.
The flip side is also true. Just because we tasted success at accomplishing something in the past, should not guarantee that we will be successful this time as well.
Every day brings with it a fresh start. What we learn from our past should make us stronger and better poised to handle the future. If we, however, let our past successes and failures influence our future, we might become stagnant and stop growing.
Only by learning AND moving on, can we ensure that our friendship with experiences past remains intact and does not become a painful baggage that we carry with us.
Like the great Rudyard Kipling so wonderfully said
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
And treat those two impostors just the same;
....
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Like roulette, every spin of the wheel is unique and past results do not affect the future results.
ReplyDeleteJ, although there are commonalities between life and the spin of the wheel, i.e., a certain sense of the unknown, I do believe that we have more control over our lives and actions than spinning the wheel. Thank you for reading the post and writing the message. I really appreciate that.
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