Where Are You Going?

Many people say to me, "haven’t you done well," or "you’re lucky, look at all the things you’ve accomplished."  I tell them (and also usually put this in my public speaking talks), "it doesn’t matter what I have done in the past, that isn't important. What is important is what am I going to do in the future."

I am not saying that we can’t learn things from our past experience -  of course we can, and we do! 

However, the world’s information supply is getting faster and faster.  Twenty years ago, when I started doing transformational leadership work, the world’s information supply was doubling every seven years, today it is doubling in less than one year.  There is so much high speed technology, with innovations taking place almost daily.

What is important is to focus on the future, where we are going to spend the rest of our lives. Make decisions in the NOW. 

One of the sayings I have, is "I am going to do it better today than I did it yesterday."  This came out of a saying I heard long ago, which was from the work of a French doctor in Paris in the early 1900s when medicine was not as advanced as it is today. 
He made his patients say at breakfast time, morning tea time, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner: "Every day, in every way, I am getting better, and better and better."  They had to say it ten times on each occasion, and the amazing thing was that most of them got better. 

I think it is also important, that when you see yourself creating success, that you tell yourself, "Well done."