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Give yourself a ‘presidential pardon’

The value of a presidential pardon is that it erases all previous crimes and convictions from your record. These may no longer be used as evidence against you. You get a chance to start over with a clean sheet.

Give yourself a presidential pardon. Stop referring to past mistakes, this is ‘failure reinforcing’ and forms the beliefs that you have about yourself and your abilities. The great danger of 'failure reinforcing' is that it leads to ‘failure forecasting’ and you expect to get more of the same.

Imagine that you can wipe out all of your mistakes, your failures, the things you did that you shouldn't have done, the decisions you made that turned out wrong. Imagine that you could dump all the worries, resentment and guilt that you are carrying with you. What would change in your life? How would you change? What would you do differently?

Realise that unless you change your behaviour you are merely going to make the same mistakes again. You know, there are a lot of people who sow their wild oats from Monday to Saturday and then on Sunday pray for a crop failure.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people ask for forgiveness of their sins every Sunday. My question is, if you were forgiven last Sunday, why did you go out and sin again? If you know enough to ask for forgiveness for what you have done, then you knew enough not to have done it in the first place.

The first time you do something wrong that's a mistake and is easy to forgive. The second time you do the same thing wrong that's carelessness, don't expect forgiveness so easily. The third time you do the same thing wrong then that is deliberate and you do not deserve forgiveness.

Now I am not saying that you should ignore your past actions what I am saying is that you must stop beating yourself over the head because of what you have or have not done. You cannot change what has been. You cannot go back and make a fresh start, but you can start now to change the way you live, to change the things that you do.

However, you must realise that you are responsible for the consequences of your actions and you should not try to avoid that responsibility. If there is anything that you should, and can, do to make amends for your actions then do it. If there really is nothing that you can do then drop it.

Learn to evaluate yourself and others on present, not past, performance. We have all done things that we wished that we had not done, anyone who says different will lie about other stuff too. But you can change, you no longer need to do those things. Many people have been able to overcome tremendous problems and totally change their lives. You can too.

Acknowledge the tremendous potential that you have within you, The ability to change and grow. It is not what you did not know or what you did or did not do that counts.

What counts is what you now know and what you are now doing about what you did or did not do. Give yourself a new start, free yourself from the emotional jail of worry and guilt "Give yourself a presidential pardon."

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