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Looking Back, Charging Forward

Reaching back can sometimes help you leap forward.  The past can be a predictor of the future.  Taking a look backward can improve the way you move forward.

Intuitively understanding the results associated with certain actions or behaviors is a learning experience.  This knowledge should guide the forward approach.

Continuous Improvement

Continuous improvement is an ongoing process. Making an effort to improve how you do things.  Improvement requires an understanding of past actions and results.

The top of mind question is how would this have been better.  Understanding the past enables you to leap forward into the present with confidence.

Changing what you did or how it was done is key to making a positive change, i.e., an improvement.  However, looking back should not be morose but rather reflective.

That is don’t dwell on failures or lack of success but rather consider the past an opportunity to make the future golden.   Past results are intricately tied to how you acted.

Acting the same is likely to give the same result.  Consider your behavior, remember what resulted and cogitate on how to improve the outcomes.

Burst Forward with Anticipation

Changing your activites is exciting.  The potential for improvement is truly motivating.   Anticipate the greater returns you will gain by improving your practices.

Reviewing past events and making changes is not without work.  Anticipation builds excitement and motivation and this will help you put forth the effort needed.

Maturity

Individuals and groups who demonstrate they are at an advanced stage relative to their behaviour are typically classified as mature. Their experience influences their decisions in a positive way.

To some extent, maturity is related to age however variances in levels of maturity for individuals of the same age, or the age of a group – recent pr long running, can be wide so this is not an absolute measure.

Building Maturity

Maturity is a skill that can be embraced and developed proactively although it also  occurs by default.  That is, age will create a change in overall level of maturity.

The pace and magnitude of the change of the change can be influenced and the defaultor sub-conscious approach will not necessarily achieve the best results.

All of us can benefit by enhancing both our personal maturity as well as those of groups we participate in (e.g., the family group).  A key attribute of maturity is a well founded set of values

Encouraging Maturity

While self awarness of your own behaviours, against a template of social cultural expectations is how personal maturity can be nurtured, mentoring others and helping them expand their own level of maturity is a critical component of building mature groups.

Act in mature ways and others may imitate you (and they may not) however if you are not an example others opportunities to grow their maturity may be left to chance.

Your own level of maturity can be a barometer for others.  Likewise other peoples level of maturity can reflect in your actions.  Contributing to  overall maturity levels is everyones role.

Better Things

English rock band the Kinks song “Better Things”expresses the epitome of optimism in the chorus line ” I know tomorrow you’ll find better things.”

The song was first released on the album titled “Give the People What they Want” in 1981.  What a fabulous album title.  No artistic crap, let’s play what people want to hear.

Optimism

It is all good.  What is wrong with this perspective.  That is, believing everything you do and everything that is done to you is good has got to be pleasant.

Not just believing it, but feeling it.  Knowing it is true, your life is magical.  There is a strong case for consistently practicing and displaying optimism.

Basically, optimism has no downside.  Back to “It’s all good”.  Hopefully this mantra is not just lip service.  Thinking and believing that ultimately everything is beneficial, even if painfull in the moment, leads to a life well lived.

Attitude

Happiness (like sadness) is both infectuous and addictive.  When your underlying emotional construct is positive not only do others see and feel it, but they catch it as well.

Of course the same goes for a dismal gloomy attitude.  Sadly though what people want is better things.  As a human race, overall, one underlying motivator of all behavior is improvement.

As a race, we believe in better.  So why not practice it every day.  Embrace the concept that it is all good and in the words of the Kinks, I know tommorow you’ll find better things.