Others have done it before me. I can, too. - Corporal John Faunce
The simplicity of life comes through when I start to feel more confident, but repeating a task, and realizing that i'm like everyone else in many ways. There are so many things that I could have done in the past, but hid from through fear.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. - Thomas A. Edison
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! - Henry For
I think this is the principle behind the book by Max Malz, who wrote Phychocybernetics. It's by a surgeon who does cosmetic surgery, and arrives at the conclusion that cosmetic surgery didn't change his patients view of themselves or their "self-esteem", despite others responding to their surgery and outer looks.
Any one who doesn't have skeletons in their closet probably doesn't have a closet. I regret some of the past but know I can't change it. I keep the door on my closet closed unless I'm about to make the same mistake again.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. - African Proverb
Looking at the past isn't often healthy, unless I look at where I slipped. I regret a lot of decisions, but as Arthur Ashe stated, " I'm doing the best I can with what I know, when I know more i'll do better".
