CHAPTER 1: FORGIVE YOU PAST AND MOVE ON!!! “Our choices can either free us or limit us “. JULIAN MANTLE Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from making mistakes and making mistakes comes from bad judgement. You may have made some mistakes in life but now is the right time to forgive yourself and stop judging yourself too harshly. The past belongs to the grave and it makes no sense to your future. One of the keys to wisdom is to learn from your mistakes and correcting rather than justifying them. Everybody can plan for life but nobody can control it because you only have the power to control the present moment and the truth is that you can’t control what has happened to you but this is one of the things that shows that the past belongs to the grave. ‘A life spent making mistakes is more honorable than a life spent doing nothing”. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If you are willing to forgive your past, God will also forgive you because he will never go against you when trying to do the right thing regardless of your past horrible sins that you have done in the past, God will always forgive you when you repent from doing all the wrongs that that you are doing and willing to start afresh with life. God will never be angry at you or reject when you confess your sins in fact he wants you to confess so that you can live a happy life without secrets. “Life is about choices”. PERCY MOSALA Every decision made by men will always consequences, bad choices brings bitter results and good choices always leads to sweet and fulfilling results. Sometimes the only way to repair a bruised soul is to forget about the wrong choices and mistakes that you made in the past and move on. There is nothing that turns out awesome than the choices that were made by a sober mind. Sometimes it may take a long time to live an honest life but at the end of the day you will live an honest happy life. The harder you try to change the longer it so let me tell you that is never too late to make the right decision today. “Pain and suffering are necessary in our lives”. JULIAN MANTLE Our small choices may lead us to the point where we lose everything, but the love of god our father will always shine on our face. God is the good father who runs to meet us when we have returned from pigsty. We don’t have to clean ourselves first before we return to him, you don’t have to fix your problems, but all you need to do is the willingness of doing the right thing, because there’s no man without history and I truly believe that that every man has a story to tell about his setbacks and failures. “Children get out of control when there are no parents around; this is like going to a destination without a map”. TOM DAVIS Pride can make it very difficult for you to admit your mistakes and your weaknesses. We are not honest to ourselves because pride taught us that all our mistakes are not our faults. Is so easy to allow pride to run our lives but we must be extra careful of the results that will face. Forget about what others have and focus on what you have and how to use it rather than focusing on the things that will make lose focus on your life because that is one of the temptation that will make you lose focus on what you have for an e.g. your abilities and talents. We are all the same but wisdom makes us all different. “If you are a man and you think life is difficult, then why didn’t you choose to be a woman”. Percy Mosala. Do not allow your negative past to hinder you from your dreams, remember that the negative situation was preparing you for victory, now is the right time stand up and stop following the wrong crowd, and dare to be different. Do not be trapped in the past. “When you were a baby, your parents did everything for you. They fed you, bathed you and changed you clothes. They stopped that at a certain stage in your life not because they loved you less but because at that stage you had to be more responsible in your life. Life is difficult yes but is worse if you are ignorant.” “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter that you think”. Unknown. Majority of the people are made to believe that their strong points are their weak points and their weak points are their strong points i.e. having a hot temper and being hard headed is a weak point while being kind, generous and patient are the strong points. Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Stat with a trembling voice, but start and don’t stop. Star where you are with what you have. Just star doing what is right now!! “Fortune favors the bold”. Unknown Sometimes when facing the difficult times, you should always figure out what you must learn from that situation so that in the next coming similar problem you should be able to come up with a solution right away.