Dreaming and Looking Back

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson

You should spend four times as much time dreaming as you do looking at the past.

Really, it’s true, there have been numerous studies that have shown . . . .

I’m kidding, there are no studies.

And I don’t know the right ratio of dreaming:looking-back, but I do know that only place that anything happens is the present.

And the present is formed by either one of two things: what we aspire to and wish to avoid.

Spend more time sorting out your aspirations.

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