Keep moving forward

When you look behind you, you're only seeing what you cannot change. But when you look ahead you can see what you can do with where you are.


When in Junior High, I had a great teacher who taught me many things. One thing that comes to mind from those two years of learning was this:

On scantron tests, you have 5 choices for each question:
[ A ]
[ B ]
[ C ]
[ D ]
[ E ]

Now imagine that the first time you read the question, you think that the answer is [ D ], and you write it in. But then upon re-reading it, you wonder if your initial thought was wrong and that it might actually be [ C ], but you really have no idea as to which one. But you must be wrong, right?
So you erase it as perfectly as you can and change it to [ C ].

And right there, you doubted yourself.

When you get the test back, sure enough the answer is [ D ], and if you had only trusted yourself in making that decision, then it would have been fine.

It's been shown that more often than not, your first answer is the correct one (if you're guessing that is). So why should life be any different? You know what's best for you, there's no reason to sell yourself short just because you're thinking that you must be wrong.

If you end up making a mistake, so what? You're only human. Once you make that mistake, you need to step over the rubble and keep on walking. It's the only way.

(And please don't think I've got it all together. This is as much for me as it is for you. I'm only human too you know...)