Monday, February 24, 2025

Wish toward the future

Wishing will not change your past actions or present circumstances. What it can do is motivate you to improve your current behavior and future outcomes.

Rather than harbor your regrets, harvest them. Allow thoughts about previous misguided choices to push you toward much better choices going forward.

Transform wishes for what you could have done into specific actions you can now undertake. Though it’s too late to avoid past mistakes, today is the perfect time to steer clear of future regrets.

You can’t go back and go to bed earlier last night, yet you absolutely can do so tonight. You can’t go back twenty years and save more money, but from now on you can spend less and invest more every month.

With every wish for what could have been, you have an opportunity. You can learn from that wish and apply its energy to positive, productive habits and actions.

When you consider the ways time has worked against you, you’ve also identified how you can now use time to your benefit. Point your best wishes toward the future, and do what you must to make them real.

— Ralph Marston

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