Ever find yourself trapped in a state of self-loathing over something you did or said in one of your many yesterdays?

Me too.

In fact, that’s exactly the emotional molasses I found myself stuck in when I opened this morning’s newsletter from The Growth Equation only to receive a gift:

the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A reminder.

We’re here to learn, not to be perfect.

Yesterday’s passed. Tomorrow isn’t here yet.

Any noise about yesterday is a distraction from the NOW we’re meant to be inhabiting.

And right NOW you’re doing this- whatever your this is, and you don’t need to be perfect!

You just need to be IN IT.

Beating up on yourself pulls you out, drags you down, and prevents you from engaging in what’s yet to come with a fully engaged, high flying spirit- cheating everybody out of receiving the gifts of your true magnitude.

I was reminded that none of us, including myself, has the luxury of doing that. Our gifts and light are sorely needed by a suffering world.

So pick yourself up and take in a breath of self-appreciation and resolve to clear your slate and start fresh.

You’re exactly where you’re meant to be in this moment, doing exactly what you’re meant to be doing in this moment.

BE there- without “being cumbered with your old nonsense.”

After all, new nonsense surely awaits us. 😉

“My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I’m never going back, the past is in the past

Let it go, let it go
And I’ll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand in the light of day
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Kristen Jane Anderson-Lopez / Robert Joseph Lopez

Let It Go lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company