Creating your future

At this very moment you are creating your future. That future is, for the most part, open ended. Sure, a few limitations have already been placed on it. Yet those limitations pale in comparison to the unimaginably vast possibilities still open to you.

The future is relentlessly arriving and it will continue to do so, no matter what actions you take or avoid. The best strategy for making that oncoming future the best it can possibly be is to become just as relentless at shaping it in a positive way.

That demands a certain kind of determined focus. At any moment in time, you are living out the legacy of your past and you are simultaneously creating the reality of your future. Because those two dynamics are experienced together in the moment known as the present, they seem unavoidably connected. But they are not.

Your past does not equal your future, unless you choose in the present to make it so. There is really very little intrinsic connection between the past, which cannot be changed, and the future, which is mostly open ended. The present moment in which you live is your grand opportunity to reinforce the appropriate, desired positive connections, and sever the negative ones, between your past and your future. Within that purview is every possibility imaginable — good, bad, indifferent, destructive and creative.

Every achievement, every success, every heartache springs forth from the actions taken in those present moments which connect the past to the future. The important part of this powerful equation is right now. What has happened in the past does not matter nearly so much as what you do with it now. The universe of possibility that is the future does not matter nearly so much as which specific possibilities you bring to fruition by your choice of action right now.

The future is yours to create, as dependent on, or independent from, your past as you wish it to be. That’s not a license to abandon your responsibilities, but rather to beautifully fulfill them.