Be honest here. Are you allowing your past to run your present?
You may say no, nope, not at all. Great and let me ask you, have you ever said “that didn’t work well, so I’m not going to do that again”? Or what about “I already did that, it didn’t work for me”?
Well if you have then you are allowing your past experience to impact your present day results. I’ll give you an example. A client of mine wanted so badly to increase her income. She told me she would do anything in order to do so. You probably know what is coming, right? Well, she didn’t want to do this and she didn’t want to do that.
When I would ask her why her response was that she had done that before and it didn’t work. That’s very valid, I’m not discounting that. However, the problem was that she wasn’t open to analyzing why it didn’t work. That left her unable to learn from her efforts. Notice I did not say “mistakes”. I believe there are no mistakes, only learning opportunities. The inability to learn from her efforts kept her firmly rooted in the past.
In order to move forward, it is important to look at what didn’t or isn’t working in order to do what will work. When you are stuck in the past because of disappointment, fear or limiting beliefs you compromise your future.
In business, I like to look at ROE – Return On Everything, something I learned from Sandy Carter of IBM. And in looking at ROE knowing what didn’t work and why is just as valuable as knowing what will work.
In order to increase your income, you must know first the 5 Key Money Areas, what holds you back from moving forward and having the courage to do both. Because once you know that the past has no power over your present moment, you are free to make decisions that will bring you to where you want to be and having the results you want to have.
When it comes to increasing your income, being in the past and in fear can have a direct impact on your results. If you would like to increase your income my free webinar training series the 5 Key Money Areas will help you do that. Below you will find the links to the first two trainings and make sure you follow me on Facebook and Twitter to get access to each subsequent training sessions (there are a total of 6 short trainings).
Training 1: 5 Key Money Areas
Training 2: Forgiveness
I’d love to hear your comments on this post, the trainings or anything you would like to share. You can also email me personally at kim@kimravida.com if you’d like to keep your comments private. I look forward to hearing from you.
I do here that a lot in my job, yes I still have a job…
business is not as it use to be, this is how ve have been doing. Bla, bla..bla….
I get so frustrated with these people not understanding that nothing is real other than the present moment.
Yesterday is an illusion as it is only a memory and tomorrow has not come yet. Actually what we do now will
create the tomorrow.
Juan, I applaud you for doing what it takes to reach your goals (even if it means having a job =).
I agree, people do not even realize that they are in the past and not even the present. I think though, conscious individuals can help to show what it is like to be in the present. Thank you for your comments.
–Kim Ravida
I LOVE THIS “ROE – Return On Everything.” This is such a good wa of looking at things instead of ROI. Some people are afraid of really going forward and so they will use the copout “that did not work for me.” And, you are right, maybe it did not work, however the bigger question is “did they try going through the entire process before they realized it doesn’t work…. that is where you come in to help them through this..it so much brighter on the other side.
Thank you Karen. When I first learned it I could see how it could be a game changer. I always like to look at things though the lens of “ok, that didn’t work, but what can I do differently that might” or even, “did I really put the effort I needed to in order to get the results I wanted?” Hmm…I feel a blog post coming on that =) Thanks for the idea.
–Kim Ravida
I’d like to say no I don’t base the future on things from the past, but I’m sure I do. I need to make a conscious effort to evaluate everything in the here and now. You never know what opportunities I might miss.
Terry, this could be fun. Take a look at things that might not be going as well as you want and see where you might be acting/thinking from the past. Keep me posted!
I love that you said ‘you never know what opportunities I might miss’ simply asking that question I bet opportunities will show up for you!
–Kim Ravida