Imagine somebody locks you up in a time-machine and asks you to take a quantum leap to go forward into the future or backward into the past. You’re allowed to travel backwards or forward to any length of time, jumping through different dimensions and timelines a day, a thousand years, a million years… Which one would you choose? Future, that lies ahead or the Past, that’s finished and done with.

Either way I’m sure you’ll never want to come back to “Now”.

Arguably, choosing between the two can change anybody’s life. But since nobody would want to ruin their lives any more than they have done in the past, future seems like an easy pick.

Personally I’m in more for future than past. Not that I don’t want to fix mistakes or want to ask for an apology to those people whom I had hurt & offended in my life before. But it would be more like going back in time to correct course to make future take a turn for the better than putting things right in there. Of course, this will be the only opportunity to set things right and tell others to do scrub theirs. Still, wouldn’t it be better to travel into the future and witness those aberrations fading away all by themselves?

Yep…I’m at a loss but I’d rather settle for what lies ahead in time for me. I don’t want to see something again that I had neglected to conclude in the first place!

I am though still curious enough to take a flier into the past and sneak a peek at whatever wrong I’d done that I shouldn’t have. Save for dinosaurs, I will get lucky to patch up some of those awkward spots. Not likely but who knows someday something I want to happen -may just happen.

All in all, it’s really a difficult choice…and a risky one as well. You move one on your fingertips and you’ll never get to see life the same way again.

So, what do you need most- the Past that didn’t work out well or a Future that awaits you to go viral?

 Your Future Is Bigger Than Your Past

It simply has to be and here’s why.

For all we know, Past is merely the bedrock for Now and Future. Otherwise all that we did in the past would be for nothing if we have come this far only to give up. Some room is always there to continue growing and that’s exactly where we want to be.

I measure success by how many people I have helped out in the past and I want to continue increasing that number. I reckon my future to be my property because by definition, it hasn’t happened yet. It exists only in my mind suggesting that I can choose to make it whatever way I want.

Honestly, I think my every move to make my future bigger and brighter than my past is the very act of growing itself.

For some people great future is mostly about themselves. But for few like me it means contributing to other’s lives and things. And I prefer to keep it simple and clean while pitching in. What’s more, I’m convinced that all I need is to believe that, it’s possible to have a bigger happier future no matter what stage you’re at in life or what your circumstances are.

Often this belief alone has been enough to keep me growing.

Short Steps Help Grow Better

Fancy this- you’ve grown old or are in poor health. You’ve great many memories and dreamy experiences behind you, but don’t know how to pep up your future and reconstruct it to better your past.

Think of it this way…

Growing is as simple as learning to expand your perspective on the world and somewhat contributing to lives of others. A bigger future doesn’t have to be necessarily grand or glitzy; no great leaps ahead either. Most growth happens as a result of many small steps. The key is to keep taking them. Besides a better future is not about how much time you’re left. It’s about what you do in it and use what you’ve learned and done so far.

Check out for yourself. You have taken your first step towards the vastness of what you’re yet to discover and not be aware.

And you’ll keep growing till you last.

Wrong turns won’t let the good times roll

Apparently what has got us here today won’t get us there ‘morrow. If you’ve been lucky in the past, be wary for that success can muffle your future success.  The things that have brought you where you are today will be the very things that will stop you from reaching your next level. Your crush for earlier triumphs and unwavering loyalty to your identity will keep you mired until you’ve learned to let go of your Past. You will gain an insight or two in between but don’t live there. And certainly don’t stay stuck to an obscure identity.

Don’t look back n’ pull yourself together

Becoming organized and mindful of everything taking place around you, places you better to build toward the future you wish for. The quickest way to do this is by not doing more but quit doing whatever is holding you back. Consider dumping those out of line behavior for a start and welcome good ones. It’s a hard start but unless you learn to cull the damage, you’ll always be taking one step forward and two backward. It’s akin to getting rid of junk food from your meal before going for a work out.

Look…unless you cut back on your spending, there’s no point in focusing on making more money.

You won’t need more once you’ve freed yourself from needing more and will be content with what you have. Think of your life as your garden. What good will be planting if you don’t remove the weeds and prep the soil?

Your Best Song Is Inside You

“You have to believe your best work is ahead of you. If I believed my best song was already written, I wouldn’t keep writing.”

It’s no hard guess what Alice Cooper -the rock star meant when he had voiced his mind like this. Richard Paul Evans, the 38-times New York Times bestselling author also aired his thoughts somewhat similarly. Interestingly, both never gave up trying to create something better than they had done before.

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What’s my take on this? I think there’s always a better way to live a good life. The world’s not going to shrink any sooner and I must keep pushing for a better morrow. So, every time I start something new, I work like a Trojan and sometimes do not hesitate to lean over backwards. I guess it’s the only way to innovate and break my boundaries.

I wish someday you too will get to find the right choice. All you need is to persuade yourself to believe that boundaries and limitations are mere illusions and lie only in imagination. Besides, your personality doesn’t define you. It only mirrors a relationship with yourself and what’s happening around you. If you wish, you can change it completely. You can even change how you show up in the world. And that’s exactly what you need to do if your future is going to be bigger than your past. Your past in any case won’t buy you much.

See…It’s between Ash or Phoenix– so choose wisely!

Above all keep this alive for you; ‘My best work is ahead of me’.