Your (Work) Past is Nothing

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I love a good reinvention story, but what I love more are people who decide who they will become, no matter what their past is like…for good or for bad.

People who have had everything go “right,”…and people who have had some devastating hits.

This read is not about your personal past (though there is much we could probably write on that!); this is about your work past. About how things have gone for you, how you’ve approached things, and what has worked out for you or what hasn’t.

It has been my belief for a long time, in doing this work, that the past is not just a bad place to live, but a dangerous one. It will cripple both your success and your progress. Usually, we only think about that with the people who have had things go wrong (and we’ll address that), but this is true even if you are the person where everything has gone right (which very few discuss).

Sitting in the good stuff of the past will actually keep you small in ways you can’t imagine, too.

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I am going to challenge you to put on some uncomfortable blinders, face forward almost exclusively, and drop a lot of bad mental habits your past has created. Whether you are successful or just starting out, you’ve got them (and I’ll give you a checklist at the end of the document to run through).

What I’m going to show you in this edition is why you want to be sitting in the present, how to do it a bit better, and how to use that to be the most effective person you’ve been in probably a long time.