I didn’t know anything was wrong with me until I noticed the signs on my pillow slip.
There were no blood stains, just sweat stains. Sweat from my face and head.
My external reaction to my internal interaction.
The same distressing story kept waking me each night with the same beginning and the same end. The story would take me back to the time I made a bad decision. One that would have lasting effects on my life and the others around me. The constant rumination.
Of course, I would curse my decision and then replay different scenarios of what I should have said and should have done. And the sweat would start.
Each morning, regardless of how much I thought and fought the decision, the sun rose, and the day began. Just like the result of my bad decision. It never changed.
Only I could change the ending to what happens next. There is always a choice.
As Steve Covey said, ‘We are not products of our circumstances, but products of our decisions.”
The only way to stop the “recurring past” was to put energy into “refocusing the
future”.
“What action will I take to get me closer to the future I would have had?”
Don’t be a prisoner of your past, but an architect of your future.
Since reinventing and refocusing, the dreams have abated, and the pillow slips are cleaner.
What actions are you taking?
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