How You Can Resolve Your Past

Remember the movie Back to the Future? Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) invents a time machine in the form of a DeLorean that takes Marty (Michael J. Fox) into the past, where he inadvertently changes the time continuum. The movie gets its title from Marty having to correct the changes in the past to get back to the future he wants. On an historical note, it was the most popular movie of 1985 and critically acclaimed. I highly recommend it!

No, I’m not turning this into a movie review blog, though admittedly watching old movies is easier and often more fun than pursuing personal development. Back to the Future provides a metaphor for overcoming challenges in your past that still hold you back today. Did you:

Develop bad easting habits?

Avoided exercising?

Spend money unwisely?

Never make time for play?

Form a flawed self-image?

Avoid creating solid friendships or business relationships?

Not take getting an education seriously enough?

Abandon G-d?

Have a lousy relationship with one or both of your parents?

Adopt values that are not in concert with how you want to live?

Or any of a number of issues that make your life other than what you want it to be?

Like Marty, you can change your future.

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It only affects your future to the extent that you believe it has too. Whether it’s a bad habit, an emotional trauma, or a deficiency in some aspect of your life, you can go forward to conquer your past by committing to change.

In some cases you may be able to do so on your own. In other cases you may need professional help, a coach or therapist, to help guide you through the steps that will lead you to a future free of impediments from the past. But even in the latter case, you have control over your destiny by engaging that person to work with you.

Unlike Marty, you don’t have a time machine to take you back to the past were you can alter events. But you don’t need one. The future is the ultimate time machine, each day, hour, minute gives you the opportunity to correct the shortfalls of your past and realize the future you want.

What step do you need to take to free you from a past impediment? Please comment below.