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.