Review Your Past
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This document provides guidance on reviewing one's past in order to learn from mistakes and successes. It suggests that without examining the past, people are doomed to repeat past challenges. It then lists a series of questions to help the reader reflect on highlights and low points from the past year, important decisions made, habits to adopt or eliminate, key relationships, and relationships that could be ended. Reflecting on these areas of one's life can provide insight into patterns and help shape a better future.
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Review Your Past
- 1. Lesson 29: Review Your Past
- 2. Introduction Welcome to lesson 29 and congratulations for getting this far. Common wisdom suggests that you should keep looking forward and leave the past in your rearview mirror, but this can be a mistake. The past has much to reveal. At the very least, you can learn where youve made mistakes. This is important, because youve been making the same mistakes over your lifetime. The reason your last relationship ended is likely to be the same reason your next relationship will end. Financial challenges repeat themselves. Your past challenges with work will be your future challenges at work. Your diet and exercise plans will fail for the same reasons theyve failed in the past.
- 3. Failing to examine and address the challenges of the past is choosing to repeat your challenges and failures throughout the rest of your life. The past also includes some pretty great things. Failing to identify these things is an obstacle to enjoying similar success in the future. While answering the following questions, consider all part of your life: Physical/health Finances Relationships Work Hobbies Spiritual/religious activities Family
- 4. Reviewing The Past Is A Critical Component Of Creating The Future: 1. What were the highlights from last year? Create a list of at least five positive experiences from the last year. Go with your gut. Anything that fills you with positive emotions can be a highlight. It might have been something as simple as spending a perfect afternoon at the park with your child. Avoid relying on societys values when defining your own success. Its a success if it feels like a success. That may or may not align with conventional measures of success. Decide for yourself.
- 5. 2. What were the low points and how could they have been avoided? It wasnt all good. There had to be a few days or experiences you dont want to repeat. Make a list of them and consider how this experiences could have been avoided. Minimising the low-points in life is more important to your happiness than adding high points. Should you have been able to foresee the occurrence of these experiences?
- 6. 3. What were the best decisions you made over the last year? You undoubtedly made some shrewd decisions last year. What were they? How can you apply this information in the future? 4. What were the worst decision from the last year? Everyone makes mistakes. What were yours? When you look even further into the past, have you made similar bad decisions? Why? 5. What are five positive habits youd like to add this year? Consider the long- reaching characteristics of habits. What are a few habits you can add that will make a big difference over the long haul? Diet, exercise, financial, and relationship habits can alter your future considerably. Keep this fact in mind.
- 7. 6. What are five habits youd like to eliminate this year? Bad habits can ruin your life. Which of your negative habits would enhance your life the most if you were able to eliminate them. 7. What are the most important relationships in your life and why? Were all limited by our personal resources. Good relationships require time and mental effort. It only makes sense to spend those resources on the most important relationships. Also think about past relationships youd like to renew. Its also useful to determine why those relationships are important. Why do you receive from these relationships that makes them important?
- 8. 8. Which relationships should you consider ending or minimising? Just as youve accumulated possessions that now clutter your life, you have relationships that need decluttering, too. Consider all of your relationships, personal and professional. Which of these no longer serve you? Relationships are never static. Its common for a relationship to change significantly over time.
- 9. Outro Are you aware of your past? Take advantage of your past experiences. Examine your past and apply that information to the future. Youll find that its common to make the same mistakes over and over. End the cycle by thoroughly reviewing your past. In the coming lesson, youll consider the type of life you want to live. Remember, having an intention is the first step to success.
- 10. Get Started On The Tips In This Lesson Well done for completing this lesson, this task will be beneficial for your relationships: Examine your past intimate relationships. Why did each of them fail? Were the reasons for failure consistent? Is your current relationship on the same path? What changes can you make now to prevent a repeat performance?