Results

Everything that the past has handed us leads us to where we are today. Our future is dependent upon how we act in the present. We have an obligation to the past and a duty to the future to handle the present well.

The past is the past. You must live in the present to survive the future.

We can't change the sins we committed yesterday, and we can't know if we will be able to resist temptation tomorrow. We can only choose to do what's right, right now. And when we live in the right now, we can make it. The past is just a memory; the future is still a mystery; the present is the only thing we have control over. We can preserve the past and protect the future with our choices by controlling our emotions and reactions.

There is no such thing as failure, only results.

Everything we do creates results. Some results are more favorable than others. As long as we learn from our choices, we can use our present experiences as we take hold of the future, pull it into the present, utilize it and push it into the past. The results we produce are based on how effectively we use this system of future-present-past. Whatever results we produce propels us into the future whether upward or downward.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Sometimes, we don’t like the results we get. But we still get the results and we get to choose what we do with those results. We can complain that the results are not what we like or we can use those results to the best of our ability and learn from them to pull forward to a better future. We will either drag the past behind us like a ball and chain or we will use the past as a step to stand on to give us a greater reach forward.