Life is Tough When You Focus on the Past

There were times in my life where I was embarrassed because of a few things I did not accept about myself.

I was embarrassed that I had a high school diploma when I was around people in business that went to Ivy League schools, or other really great schools. Not that there is anything wrong with that, to each his own, but I only had a high school diploma and I barely earned it.

This was because I was not interested in school. It was just something that I did not want to do. It created a source of weakness for me because I was almost embarrassed about it. I would say that a few years ago I finally was able to embrace my past, my shortcomings, and the fact that I only got a high school diploma.

I was bad at getting good grades. So what?

It does not mean I’m dumb, it just means I did not apply myself. I know that I'm smart, and you know that you are as well.

Life is tough as it is so you have to get yourself to a point where you confront your shortcomings and your weaknesses. If you do not, your shortcomings will always be a source of weakness for you and it will be really hard for you to generate power as a person. Like reconciling your bank account, you have to reconcile your past. You have to confront it, look at it, deal with it, and be alright with it.

“We all have stuff going on and mistakes we have made in our past that we regret from time to time, but what are you going to do? The past is the past.” — Vick Tipnes

You have to leave the past alone and get comfortable with it. I have no problem nowadays saying, “Yeah, that was a major mistake. Did I do that? Yeah I did that. No one else did that but me.”

Embrace your past because you are too valuable as a person to carry around your past mistakes. Just the fact that you are reading this makes you highly valuable because you are actually interested in your own stuff, and interested in getting better.

I love you and I want you to know that you can be comfortable in your own shoes. You need to be happy with yourself and be your own best friend because no one else is going to be a better friend to you than you.

Keep fighting for yourself and share this with someone you know who needs to hear this message.

In the end it will be you with yourself.

Go get it.

- VT