Future Shaped by Your Past

Por René González

Future Shaped by Your Past goes deep inside many of our big questions of why certain things happen (or not) to us and others. Rene explains with great detail the many possibilities of how our past and previous relations have shaped our present, many of which we were not aware of or, even worse, we thought was working pro or against us when in reality they may have worked otherwise.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 9 dic 2020
• ISBN: 9781643347417

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Future Shaped by Your Past

René González

Copyright © 2020 René González

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First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2020

ISBN 978-1-64334-738-7 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-64334-741-7 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

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Part 1

Chapter 1

The way we think

One way to determine your future is to examine your past (Bryan Tracy, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life).

Don’t let your past or the past of others shape your future. Great things will start happening when you let go of your past and begin expecting only great things to come. Always keep in mind that no one knows how much sand is left in our own sand timer.

When you and I were born, we had no idea what to expect from everything we were being exposed to. Our little minds were blank. We were absolutely at other people’s mercy—good people usually, who only wanted to give us their best. Our mom and dad were never told how to raise us, and if they were, it was someone else’s paradigm they were passing on to us. We were able to become anything our little mind could think of. As we were growing, we were told by our parents, siblings, friends, teachers, etc. what to do, what not to do, what’s right and wrong, what to expect, what not to expect, and a never-ending list of great advice, which came from people who loved us and just wanted the best for us. We were given other people’s points of view in life (their life) according to their own experience. They started since a very early age to shape our beliefs, our paradigms, our thoughts, our future.

Watch your thoughts; they lead to attitudes.

Watch your attitudes; they lead to words.

Watch your words; they lead to actions.

Watch your actions; they lead to habits.

Watch your habits; they form your character.

Watch your character; it determines your destiny.

These words of unknown origin tell us that our silent and often subconscious choices shape our future. Every aspect of our lives, at home and at work, can be improved if we use our power to think, reflect, and make conscious choices about our thoughts, attitudes, words, actions, and habits.

Instead, many of us think of ourselves as victims. We complain about our circumstances and what others did to us. Whatever psychological comfort there is in feeling powerless and blameless when things aren’t going right, in the end, victims lead unsatisfied lives.

We’re most vulnerable to victims when we’re under the influence of powerful emotions like fear, insecurity, anger, frustration, grief, or depression. These feelings are so powerful we believe our state of mind is inevitable. Our only hope is, they will go away on their own. Yet it’s during times of emotional tumult that using our power to choose our thoughts and attitudes is most important. We can’t make pain go away, but we can refuse to suffer.

Even when we don’t like any of our choices, we do have some—once we realize we can take control. It isn’t easy, but what we do and how we choose to feel about ourselves has a profound impact on the quality of our lives. Victims may get sympathy for a while, but that isn’t enough.

Taking personal responsibility for our happiness and success can be scary, but the payoff is enormous. Although we can’t make our lives perfect, we can make them better—usually a lot better. (Michael Josephson)

Ever since I was a young boy and began to reason by myself, I started to notice there were many different people in the world with too many different situations in their lives with too many different opinions of everything. Each person would do or say something different if exposed to the same situation. I started to notice that even though we were born in the same city (at this age, my mind could only go as far as I could see) on the same subdivision, the same street, even in my own house, people would have very different thoughts, opinions, ways of doing one same thing, different results, different ways of living, and so on. I was amazed at the different life situations and results. My house was the biggest on the block with a huge backyard, our own playground, horses, dogs, huge beautiful trees, a guesthouse, maids’ court, three maids at all times, a gardener at all times, chauffeur, and so on. However, our next-door neighbors—a family of around twenty, as far as I can remember, and all musicians—were living on a very small house with very limited commodities. We were neighbors for many years, and our ways of living was the complete opposite.

That and many other things always caught my attention, and I would always wonder, why? It was the big question at that age, a many-times unanswered question. In the same block lived a beggar, a forever drunk man, a taxi driver with a degree in law, a nonpractitioner doctor, and yes, successful people too. Growing up in