The Future is Promise, not suggestion

​Do you ever watch those Olympic springboard divers? They bounce on that board, trying to get every bit of lift that board will give them. In the earliest moments of what they are about to do, they know that board is their best friend.

These days, I see myself as a springboard diver. Without the speedo shorts of course. 🤦‍♂️

I'm getting all the lift I can get. Not so much to escape where I am, but to leverage all the lift I can get to propel me to where I am going.

Edith Eger says, "you can live in the prison of the past, or you can let the past be the springboard that helps you reach the life you want now."

We have that choice. Always. Stay in the prison of our past. Sink deeper and deeper into it like quicksand. Because our past has no mercy. It will swallow us and move on to its next victim without a second thought.

So it's OUR thought that matters.

It's me who decides, I'm climbing this springboard and bouncing my way up and on. Not up and out; but up and on.

Because our past doesn't move on. Our past doesn't heal. Our past just sits there, an eternal invitation to come back.

And sink.

Our past never quits suggesting, you shouldn't have done that.

Our past never quits suggesting, you're a bad person.

Our past never quits suggesting, you're ruined now.

The past never quits suggesting until we decide I'm tired of the past's suggestions. The past doesn't suggest things we refuse to listen to.

The future has a voice too, you know. We simply need a springboard to hear it.

To hear you're going to make it.

To hear your best self is in these best days ahead.

To hear your past is ugly, but your future is going to make miraculous beauty of it.

And that future voice, it isn't suggestion; it is promise.

It is promise if we'll climb that springboard. And spring up. Not up and out, but up and on.

And on....