Some of you are so set in ways that clearly aren’t working: you feel like life is a series of moments of déjà vu.
We do not have to be trapped in a perpetual “Groundhog day”. Yet if we keep voluntarily following the same path of wrong or questionable decisions, how can we expect anything else but to keep reliving parts of our undesirable lives.
I know too many people (self not excluded at one time) who simply keep repeating the same behavior… picking the same type of wrong men or women in their lives… making the same poor financial decisions… consistently continuing to trust the same untrustworthy people… continuing to eat poorly and not exercising regularly while staying confused why they cant lose weight or get healthier… continuing to drive intoxicated or with weed in the car and complain about profiling and not getting a break.
We are the kings of our respective castles. We are the captain of our respective ships. We are the masters of our own disasters. Have I beat the theme to death enough? We cannot continue to make repeated poor decisions or engage in repetitive detrimental behavior and believe that the results will change.
There is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein that says, “the definition of insanity: is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Now I do not know if Einstein actually said this, but whoever is the original author, he or she didn’t need to be classified as a genius to have come up with one of the life’s greatest truism’s.
Moments of déjà vu in our lives should not come because we continue to repeat the same behavior. We have so much more control of our lives than we understand. Sure there are many things beyond our control, but we cannot focus on that. What we are able to focus on is ourselves and what we can control. We need to learn from our mistakes. We need to make sure that we are not engaging in self destructive behavior.
Making mistakes is a part of life. We all do. Repeated behavior that leads to the same mistakes is stupidity. Thankfully, that is something completely avoidable. Life should not be a series of negative déjà vu moments. Avoidable mistakes should not have us wondering how the predicaments we find ourselves in look so similar. You have the ability to write and direct so much of your narrative. You may not be able backspace and delete old mistakes, but you surely can prevent their repetition.
#dejavu, #control, #changethenarrative, #future, #positivity, #repeatingmistakes
