I love this article from the Daily Targum titled Why moving onwards requires looking backwards. It's a fitting reading for this time of the year.
Like many these days, I'm looking back to what happened in the last twelve months. It's a good way to see how far I've come and to extract the learnings from my experiences. Learning that I will use to plan the year ahead.
However, if I don't pay attention, I quickly end up counting wins and losses and dwelling on the second ones.
But dwelling is of no help in moving forward, as the author of the article from the Daily Targum reminds us. Plus, our memories are less reliable than we think and hope. They are highly influenced by our emotions.
Still, it's essential to look back. As long as we remember, the past is the past. So, take the learn and move forward.
If we move forward without ever looking back, we will never know of improvement. If we continuously look back and never look forward, we will never know what it means to move on. To put it simply: Learn from the past but also learn to move on from the past. By doing both, we can better ourselves while gaining the resilience we need to live life to the fullest.