Back To The Future

Back To The Future.   Building a bigger, better, and more prosperous future with your mind on the past is impossible. You can’t climb a mountain looking downward, and you can’t race a car looking backward. If we want to succeed, our head, mind, eyes, and energy must be pointed in one direction, with one focus… Or we need to move so slowly and cautiously that we run out of time before we reach the finish line.     DISCLAIMER: This Podcast is for Construction Industry Business Owners who want to strengthen themselves, and their Businesses only. If you’re looking for cheesy leadership, business and development advice, watch a TED talk. Because that’s not how we roll.   We all have one   Mistakes are a part of life. Only people who’ve never tried anything make zero mistakes, which is a mistake in its own right. Life is for living, not dwelling, and we cannot live in the past. We can only live in the moment. In business, dwelling on the past typically involves missed opportunities, and mistakes on projects, hirings, firings, and clients. It’s important to remember how and where we made mistakes of judgment in these areas so that we can learn from them and be sure not to repeat them. However, that’s where the reflection must end. No good will ever come from spending too much time in the past, neither good memories nor bad. We cannot get those moments back or erase them from our memory. Just because it worked then doesn’t mean it will work now, or because it failed then, it will fail now. Regret is the ultimate negative trip down memory lane and carries the most weight. Significant accomplishments require enormous amounts of energy and effort. We cannot afford to waste either dwelling on maybes, what ifs, and should have done’s. One hundred percent of our focus must be on the task at hand if we are to stand a chance.   Driving you crazy   The most common analogy used to highlight the danger and difficulties associated with spending too much time focussing on the past is driving. The windscreen in our cars and trucks is glass for a reason. We must see where w