<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[A Life in Libraries]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://cherylbecker.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[cbecker53]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://cherylbecker.wordpress.com/author/cbecker53/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Own Your Past, But Move Beyond&nbsp;It]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>In our personal and professional lives, we need to look forward, move forward, and create successful future endeavors.  It is important to own your past (both successes and failures), but &#8220;more of the same won’t birth new futures. Looking back and holding on stagnates, solidifies, and congeals life like cold bacon grease.&#8221;</p>
<p>So strive to <a title="Find Your Future" href="http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/six-ways-to-find-your-future/" target="_blank">Find Your Future</a>.  Move beyond your past.</p>
<div style="width: 250px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/18090920@N07/4438763529" target="_blank"><img class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" title="future" alt="future" src="https://i0.wp.com/farm5.static.flickr.com/4013/4438763529_5dc0784325_m.jpg" width="240" height="83" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">future (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee)</p></div>
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