Try this experiment

​Take a comfortable, seated position and look down at the floor; then, without changing position, take the next five minutes to think about your life. Anything and everything, whatever that means to you, just think about your life. 
 
Go ahead and do that now . . . 
Now, clear your mind, walk around a minute, then come back and do the second half: Take the same comfortable, seated position, only tilt your head up so you're looking at the ceiling. Spend the next five minutes thinking about your life. 
 
Anything and everything, whatever that means to you, just think about your life. 
Go ahead and do that now . . . 
 
I don't know what results you had, but here's what most people find: when looking down, it's pretty hard not to start thinking about the past. When gazing upward, it's pretty hard not to start thinking about the future. 
 
I can promise you, every single person you see rushing around is looking either straight ahead, or down. 
 
People on the failure curve tend to focus on their past - and it pulls them down. People on the success curve focus on their future - and it pulls them up. 
 
People on the success curve don't ignore the past, but they use it as a tool, one of many with which they build their futures. 
 
People who live on the failure curve use the past as a weapon with which they bludgeon themselves and the people around them. Regrets, recriminations, remorse, and retribution. 
 
It seems most people live with one foot in the past, saying "Only if things had been different, I would be successful." And the other foot in the future, saying "When this or that happens I will be happy/successful." And they completely ignore the present, which is all we really have. It's only the decisions that you make in the moment that are Slight Edge decisions. 
 
People make two lists about their spouses and carry these lists around in their heads. The long list is a list of "what's wrong," and they consult that list every day. The short list of "what's right." That's the list they read for the eulogy. 
 
People on the success curve don't wait until the funeral. They burn the long list and spend every day reading from the shortlist. They make themselves experts in "what's right," and let go of "what's wrong." They never hold a grudge - not because it's morally wrong (although they may agree with that reason, too), but because it gets in the way. It slows them down. 
 
They're too busy moving toward the future to be staring into the rearview mirror.
 
Brian P Swift  J.D. Coach – Business & Personal Strategist – Speaker [email protected]brianpswift.com

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