Looking Forward

Quoting the baseball great Satchel Paige, "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." That's the theme of this mini podcast.

 Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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"The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that  seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom. 

Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:

• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options? 

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Transcript

Looking Forward

I woke up one morning and The Grasshopper was sitting on my pillow.

And he said, “If you look at life through a rearview mirror, your biography has already been written.”

Well . . . that was a time saver.

No need to write an autobiography. Just find someone who’s always looking back, read their story, and then change their name to yours.

It reminded me of two old sayings I’ve heard forever:

If you want to know where you’re going, look where you’ve been. And . . . if you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.

Now, there’s wisdom in both of those.

But when you’re forging ahead, it’s a distraction to be staring backward.

That reminds me of something that happened years ago.

I took Snuffy — the black-nosed Beagle — out for a walk. We stepped out the front door, and there, right in the middle of the yard, sat a rabbit.

I thought, “Oh God, here we go.” I figured Snuffy would explode — howling, dragging me at lightning speed across the lawn.

He didn’t.

He went into stealth mode.

The micro-movements in his muscles . . . it was a thing of beauty to watch. He crept forward, inch by inch, laser-focused on that bunny. Patient. Calm. Locked in.

And then . . . it happened.

A car came down the side street.

Snuffy shifted his focus just slightly — just enough to notice the car —

And that rabbit took off like a shot . . . like it had somewhere very important to be.

NOW I was being dragged at lightning speed by a howling hound.

Looking back can give you perspective. But it can’t give you a directive.

It can tell you what not to do. It rarely tells you what to do next.

Looking forward? That’s a discipline. It requires keeping your focus on what’s right in front of you.

Because every time you look back, you take your eye off the ball. And when you do that, you swing at the wrong thing.

If you want to write a different autobiography, your backstory doesn’t get to run the show anymore.

Your front-page headline has to be in big, bold type:

LOOKING FORWARD.

I don’t have a step-by-step plan for you.

Just this suggestion: Focus on what’s right in front of you.

That’s what gives you the presence of mind to stop reliving what already happened . . . and to stop letting your prey get away.

All the best,

John