“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror”

The best of life is what is still to come....I love looking forward to each day and things to come in the future.  I am not one of those people who dreads getting older...you could not pay me to be a 20-something again.  I love that with each day I am that much stronger, that much wiser... and that much more comfortable in my own skin.  

I know it is easy to get caught up in the "what-ifs" or the sadness of the "endings" in life...but other than making you feel a little worse about yourself, I am not sure what looking back at those moments with desire or regret can bring.  I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason.  I have had dreams that were unfulfilled... my Olympic dream never became a reality, but that doesn't mean that all those years of hard training weren't worth it in the end, medal or no medal!  

Everything that we have done in our lives has brought us to this moment right now...and if you are too busy looking back with regret, you are going to miss out on the beauty of the moment you are in!

Remembering the past and learning from those experiences, good or bad, are what makes us more successful now and in the future.  If you spend all of your "now" stuck in the past...what kind of future can you have? 

I am so happy to be at a point in my life that all those bad moments no longer drag me down...but energize me because I pulled through.  I am able to file them...to be used in moments when I want to quit but won't ... to help propel me forward...almost as if I use them as fuel when my tank is nearing empty.  

The past is just that...and I am happily living in the present, both eyes forward....excited to see what is around the next bend!