Every thing that occurred yesterday, and the yesterdays earlier than that, is actual. It occurred.
Maybe it’s the exhausting work you probably did to earn a level, or a major error that price you and others an important deal. Perhaps it’s a group you selected to affix, or one that you just didn’t embrace.
All of those prices are sunk. We will’t undo them. They’re a present from our former selves.
However like all presents, we don’t have to just accept them.
We will say to that former self, “no thanks.”
“I understand how exhausting you labored to get that regulation diploma, however I don’t have room for it on the shelf.”
“I do know you paid a value for that transgression, however that value is paid and I’ve work to do.”
No thanks.
Shaka Senghor has written a poignant new e-book that places a face on actual prices, prices that reside up to now however threaten to overwhelm us every day. On July 25, I’ll be doing a reside interview with him and anybody who pre-orders a duplicate of the e-book at that hyperlink is invited to attend.
His e-book is a uncooked memoir, but additionally a helpful framework, a sensible means to consider the brand new choices we get to make every day. We’ve got beneficiant work to do, and if our story will get in the best way of that work, it pays to discover a technique to rewrite it.
