When driving a car there is a windshield and a rearview mirror both serve.
Life looking in rearview mirror.
Stop looking in the rear view mirror.
You can t drive by looking only in the rear view mirror of your car.
When you are always looking back you become focused on what didn t work out on who hurt you and on the mistakes you ve made such as.
Live your life through the windshield not the rearview mirror colin cowherd the quote above might not be exactly correct word for word but the important thing is that it retains the message that the original author meant to convey.
Now let s shift our focus and identify some key strategies for living life looking through the windshield realize that much like the saying we each have been given one mouth and two ears to be used in proportion there is a very good reason that cars are built with the windshield much larger than the rearview mirror.
But you will never see them by looking back.
Likewise you can t go through life looking only through the rear view mirror.
If only i would have finished college if only i d spent more time with my children.
Looking at life through a rear view mirror 15 july 2020 27 january 2018 by ray hermann d min.
If we live only in the past we miss the joy and blessings of the present and the opportunity to plan for the futur e.
Look ahead it s tempting to go through life looking in the rearview mirror.
My wife and i recently went on a boat trip through some areas of puget sound in northwest washington.
The past can t be changed and there is no guarantee we will have a.
After all the present is the only time we really have.