How to make your future bigger than your past.
Ideas have power. When you truly get and understand new bold ideas, they open you to a whole new world of possibility and potential.
This article explores 4 important ideas to ignite your growth in 2023.
Here we go.

- Learn to Embrace Failure
âIf I had to live my life again, Iâd make the same mistakes, only sooner.â -Tallulah Bankhead
Most people hate failure. They run from it. They let their results determine their self-worth, and therefore, failure is something to be avoided.
However, if youâre not failing, youâre not learning. If youâre Qnot learning, youâre likely reliving your past. Youâre âresting on your laurelsâ and simply going through the motions.
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Hence, Hugh MacLeod has said,
âA lot of people in business say they have twenty yearsâ experience, when in fact all they have is one yearâs experience, repeated twenty times.â
Indeed, if we all want more from our lives in 2023, then we must have the courage to attempt more things that might not work.
We must give up our certainty in the present to embrace a bigger future. As Jerry Weintraub said, âAs soon as you feel comfortable, thatâs when itâs time to start over.â
- Take Your Commitment to the Next Level
âI suggest you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didnât get the life you wanted.â -Grant Cardone
In this life, we can choose to create our own realities. The visions you see in your head can be alive and real in your outward reality. However, your future will be shaped by the results youâre most committed to.
Brendon Burchard said, âWe must remember we are not the sum of our intentions but of our actions.â Darren Hardy has similarly written,
âIf thereâs a discrepancy between what you say and what you do, Iâm going to believe what you do every time. Habits and behaviors never lie.â
In 2023, itâs time to put our actions where our thoughts are. Itâs time to decide specifically what we want and put our all into.
Said Jay Shetty, âIf you donât sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.â
- Write Your Goals Down Daily
âUntil your dreams become emotional, they wonât be powerful enough.â -Benjamin P. Hardy
You solidify your commitment to your goals by writing them down daily. Each morning is a chance to set your life in the direction you intend to go.
However, most people wake up and are immediately drawn into a reactive and unintentional state by the allure of their smartphone. They then go through their day, and not much different happens from the day before.
Of course, Benjamin P. Hardy once wrote,
âHow you start something is generally how you finish it.â
Abraham Lincoln similarly said, âThe best way to predict the future is to create it.â
You create the life you want by intentionally planning and designing it. You must be the architect of your life rather than the victim of it.
So, writing your goals down is something that need not take more than 10 minutes upon waking up. Simply take a few minutes to pull out your journal and visualize the future you seek to create.
As you make this a daily habit, you transform the ideas in your head from just that to an emotional experience. The more emotionally-charged you can make your future vision, the more youâll be driven to achieve it.
In his book, The Miracle Equation, Hal Elrod wrote, âWhatever future may seem like a fantasy to you now is simply a future reality that you have yet to create.â
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- Love Your Life in the Here and Now
âLove the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Donât think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.â -Hal Elrod
As you strive for bigger and better futures, donât lose appreciation for the blessings in your life today. People think theyâll be happy when they obtain some future result, but this is a trap that always leaves you wanting more.
As Benjamin P. Hardy once wrote, âUntil you appreciate what you currently have, more wonât make your life better.â Andy Rooney similarly says,
âEveryone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while youâre climbing it.â
In 2023, donât think life will get better on the other side. Instead, see the perfection in your life today. Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams, as joy can only be found in the present moment.
Said Thich Nhat Hanh, âIf we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy â tomorrow, or after tomorrow? What is preventing us from being happy right now?â
Contributed by Reece Robertson
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