Is Your Past Holding You Back? How to Move Forward to Find Success

摘要

We all have negative baggage from our past abuse from family members, name-calling from school friends, and destructive self-talk, just to name a few. And while these negative events occurred in our childhood, many adults allow their past baggage to dictate their present and guide their future. For example, perhaps when you were in elementary school a group of classroom bullies constantly called you "a dummy." Their words hurt you and got ingrained in your mind. Now that you're an adult and rarely, if ever, think back to your elementary school days, you still believe you're too dumb to handle many situations. As a result, you don't try as hard as you could at work, and vour results suffer.