The past few weeks we’ve said that stubbornness, anger, unforgiveness, pain, shame, purposelessness, and fear keep us stuck in the past.

We observed that your past is not your future when you:

1. Understand that you can’t solve your problems with the same old thinking.
2. Accept that life isn’t fair. It’s what you make it.
3. Know that hurting people hurt people and you forgive to be free
4. Admit that abuse leaves scars and you get help to heal.
5. Accept that you will screw up and determine that you will fail forward.
6. Find your “one thing” and pursue it with passion.
7. Live one day at a time with faith in your Higher Power.

We said that you have the power to change the direction of your life. That power comes from the choices you make from this moment forward.

You can’t change the past, but you don’t have to replay it in your mind over and over or repeat it in your behavior again and again. Remember: “live out of your imagination, not your history.

You can imagine a different future for yourself, a future that is totally unlike your past. Once you imagine a different future you have the power to choose it or lose it.

Your past is not your future. If you believe it you can achieve it.