Thought for the week
"You are a three dimensional being.
The person you were, the person you are and the person you can be."
By Johann Campbell
You are constantly dealing with three people in your life and the quality of your life depends on how you deal with each of them. All of the peace of mind and satisfaction, or strife and unhappiness, that you experience depends on the state of internal harmony, or internal warfare, between these three.
THE PERSON YOU WERE. You must love, forgive, acknowledge, learn from and let go of the person you were. This does not mean that you forget the person you were but rather that you cherish the memory and build on your past instead of living, or wallowing, in it.
Love the person you were. Take the time to remember all the good times all the good things that you have done, and yes, no matter how "bad" you perceive your life to have been there will have been good times.
Forgive the person you were. Every one of us has issues with our past. Things we did, or didn't, do that we wish we hadn't, or had, done. Things, that in hindsight appear so obviously wrong, did not appear wrong at the time we did them. Look back on your past and realise that, right or wrong, you did what you thought best at the time.
THE PERSON YOU ARE. You must love and accept the person you are. Until you learn to love yourself you will have a hard time loving others and realising your potential. When you do not love yourself you feel unworthy and undeserving of greatness and you will not claim the magnificent heritage that is yours, the ability to become whoever you wish to become.
Make this a constant affirmation "I am a wonderful person and I love and respect myself" and then strive to live as if it were true. Treat yourself as if you were a wonderful person. Treat others as if you were a wonderful person and be worthy of love and respect.
Realise that you cannot go back and make a new start but never allow your guilt, regrets and resentments stop you from living your life, and making a positive change, now. It is seldom your past that holds you back. It is you who won't let go.
You cannot change where you came from or how you got here, but you can change how you travel from here and where you travel to.
THE PERSON YOU CAN BE. The future is given to us as an endless set of possibilities, it is up to us to choose the future that we want and then to strive to make that future happen. The most exciting thing about being human is that we can change who we are by changing what, and how, we think
Realise that what lies behind you and what lies before you depends on what you do with what lies inside you. If we can accept the person we were, love the person we are, and believe in the person that we wish to be, then we will have a happy life filled with forgiveness of the past, acceptance of the present and hope for the future. Your actions of today are the building blocks of your history and the foundations of your future. What, and how, will you be building today? But at all times remember this You are a three dimensional being. The person you were, the person you are and the person you can be.
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