Have you ever seen someone so plagued by the past that it haunts their entire being? Where ….. the past has such a firm grip upon their soul that it takes control of their life? It’s like they are dragging this massive weight behind them, holding them back and keeping them from moving forward.
I am a firm believer that if you want to have a present or future, you must let go of the past.
The past is a double edged sword. It can be a great thing and a terrible thing. The past can give you experiences that can keep you from danger in the future and you should learn from them. However, the past can also keep you from living a great and happy life. Have you ever dealt with someone who has had a terrible unhealthy relationship? The past can take control of their life and hurt all of their future relationships by making people pay for their X’s mistakes. We can be so worried about not letting the things that happened before, happen again —- that we forget to live the life we have right now. Before we know it, we can look up and it’s over. Don’t be the person that one day realizes they have wasted years of their life because the past has reign over them. It can be helpful, but it can also suck the life out of you.
Don’t let the past keep you from having a future. It’s your choice if you give the past power over you. Yours and yours alone. You have the choice to build yourself up again and move on, or let it drown you. You can let the circumstances shape you or you can do the shaping.
It’s NOT what happens to you… but how you HANDLE it.
I love movies, being around them, watching them, and learning from them. I have some family members and close friends in the industry and I am so excited they followed their dreams of being actors and actresses. They went for it… decided to throw caution to the wind and just plain went for it. WOW — isn’t that liberating? I love just thinking about it. I have a close friend from Kentucky that called me 10 years ago and said, “Hazen – I am going to California to become an actor” —– I told him that if anyone could do it…. it would be him… hands down. He is fearless and he attracts people like a magnet. He went out there and said the secret to his success has been outworking everyone around him. WHAT? You didn’t get “discovered?” You weren’t JUST the guy they were looking for when you moved out there from Kentucky? hahahaha…. He outworked everyone around him and took the jobs NO ONE wanted. 
Everyone knows what I am talking about here… right? I hope so… because the more successful you are the more people want to cut you down to size. Why is that? Why can’t people realize there is plenty of business to go around? Why do people think they have to be sneaky? Why do people want to drag you down with them? WHO knows… hahahaha… and the truth is … it doesn’t matter anyway. 
Do you know anyone in your life that you would JUST LOVE to give this card to? It’s straight to the point, it’s funny, it’s also very courteous – it says so at the bottom of the card and you could implement this very quickly in any situation. Couldn’t you?
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