Jim Rohn has said, “Don’t wish it was easier. Wish you were better. - Benjamin P. Hardy

The past is nothing more than the meaning you ascribe to it. Traumatic experiences can be changed. They are not fixed. Motivation is often broken into one of two categories: approach or avoid.

In the book, If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules, Cherie Carter-Scott presents 10 rules for life.64 You will receive a body. You will receive lessons — you are enrolled in a full-time informal school called “life.” There are no mistakes, only lessons. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. Learning lessons does not end — if you’re alive, that means there is still lessons to be learned. “There” is no better than “here.” Other people are merely mirrors of you — you cannot love or hate something about someone unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself. What you make of life is up to you — you have all the tools and resources you need, what you do with them is up to you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you — all you need to do is look, listen, and trust. You will forget all of this at birth.

Don’t let your past be forgotten. Always measure backward.