220823MakeYourFuture

Always Make Your FutureBigger Than Your Past 

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A bigger future is essential for lifetime growth. The past is useful because it is rich with experiences that are worth thinking about in new ways—and all of these valuable experiences can become raw material for creating an even bigger future. Approach your past with this attitude, and you will have an insatiable desire for even better, more enjoyable experiences. Use your past to continually create a bigger future, and you will separate yourself from situations, relationships, and activities that can trap you there.

Your future is your property. Because, by definition, it hasn’t happened yet, it exists only in your mind. This means that you can choose to make it whatever you want. The act of making your future bigger than your past is the very act of growth itself: the bigger future is the vision, and growth is what makes it real. A bigger future includes anything you want to see that’s somehow an improvement on what’s true now: greater learning, contribution, opportunities, capabilities, understanding, confidence, quality of life, compassion, connectedness. The list goes on and on, limited only by what you can imagine. Some people’s bigger futures are mostly about themselves, and others’ encompass contributions to many other people and things.

be essential for: 对……必不可少的

raw material: 原材料

insatiable: adj. 无法满足的，贪得无厌的

by definition: 按照定义；当然地；明显地

somehow: adv. 以某种方式，用某种方法；由于某种不明原因，不知为什么

contribution: n. 贡献，促成作用；捐款，捐助；（保险金、养老金等的）定期缴款；稿件，投稿

compassion: n. 同情，怜悯 

encompass: v. 包含，包括；包围，环绕；<古>促成，实现 

contribution to: 捐助；促成；对……贡献