Looking Backwards to Move Forwards

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Becoming the person you dream of takes a lot of self-reflection and diving into the past to figure out who you wish to be in the future. Your history holds many pearls of wisdom that can help you map out where you want to go and what direction to take. Today I am talking about using your past as a springboard and motivator to help you move forward. I'll be sharing the importance of sitting in discomfort, reflecting on who you've been, and permitting yourself to let go of the past.

What’s In This Episode:

Using your past as a springboard to move forward

Accepting and reframing the way that you look at your past

Reflecting on who you used to be and how you feel about who you want to become

Deciding where you want to be and mapping out the direction you’ll take to get there

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity not just to do more, but to achieve what's truly important to you. And this season is all about you, U2.0. To learn more about yourself, take Tanya's free quiz and discover your own productivity style at
0:21.3	Tanya Dalton.com. And now get ready. Here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello everyone.
0:28.9	Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. And this is episode 158.
0:36.2	Looking backwards to move forward. That's right. Today, I want to talk about something
0:41.9	that so many people get hung up on when they're thinking about making changes or they're making
0:46.7	adjustments in their lives, the past. I know. I feel like I should have done like dun,
0:52.0	dun, dun, done afterwards, because the past always seems to be one of these things that holds us back, that we feel, oh, because of my past, I can't move forward or because of my past, I can't do this.
1:06.0	Our past is one of those things that we like to look at as an excuse. Let's be honest, it's really easy
1:11.4	to blame our past. But really, our past can be a benefit. It can be the springboard we need
1:17.6	in order to move forward. Now, as you know, this is the second episode of our newest season,
1:24.0	season 13, called U2.0. So all season long, we're going to be exploring ways to make
1:30.3	some small tweaks, some minor adjustments that will help us feel, well, maybe a little more
1:35.5	in control of who we are, to feel a little bit better when we look in the mirror about what we see
1:41.5	looking back at us, to help get rid of some of that negative self-talk that
1:46.1	we like to give to ourselves. So each episode is designed to help move you forward, to help
1:52.4	drive you towards that person you're really wanting to be. It's not about changing who you are.
1:57.4	It's not about shifting into a whole different persona. It's really about what can you do
2:02.3	to make yourself the best version of you you can be. So that's why we're talking about the past,
2:08.2	because it does tend to hold this back, or we think it does, even though maybe it really doesn't.
2:14.0	Because you know what? We all have a past. We all have things we don't like. We all have
2:19.4	things we're ashamed of or that we wish no one knew about. We all have got it. So even those people
2:24.7	you look at who you think, oh, they've got it all together, they have a past. We all have a
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