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Some things i learned from my article is if you stop believing you will mess up you will mess up less as well as if you consistently think negatively about yourself then in the future you will start to become what you believe you are and same thing goes for thinking positively. The article also explains how important of a role your past decisions play in who you are today.

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What i learned in my article was what you can do when you grow up and achieve what you want to do. The article talks about how if you feel some type of way today you'll probably feel the same tomorrow, so you should do what makes you happier instead of being all down in the dumps. You can experience whatever you want to experience depending on how you choose to live or look back. You can always look back and do things over again.

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Have you ever thought about why you are who you are right now, and how you will create who you will be in the future?

When I ask most people what makes them who they are right now, they respond, "My past experiences. My education. My environment. My genetics." These are things that either happened in the past or that you were born with-things you carry with you from the past into the future.

And when it comes to the experiences you had, you made decisions about those experiences that you also take forward with you. In fact, you project them forward into the future. You expect those decisions-those thoughts-to continue being true. Thoughts like:

I'm not good enough.

People don't like me.

I should have been a boy (or a girl).

Men (or women) leave me.

I never have enough money.

I'm not worthy of earning more money.

I make bad decisions.

I'm unlovable.

I'm ugly.

I'm stupid.

With these thoughts projected out into the future-with you expecting them to be true tomorrow, the next day, next week, a month from now-you perpetuate yourself being that same person you believe yourself to be in the future. You recreate the same experiences over and over again, proving to yourself over and over again that you are, indeed, this person.

When you stop expecting to find yourself in that same situation over and over again-expecting to find poof that you are that person, you will stop having those experiences. For this to happen, you have to leave all of these experiences and decisions in the past. Stop bringing them with you into the future.

I learned all of this long ago when I was doing a variety of self-help, personal growth and human potential workshops and seminars, like the Loving Relationships Training. It can be hard to remember these lessons though, when you aren't around other like-minded people who also know these principles. The other day a colleague invited me to a preview of the Landmark Forum workshops. There I was reminded of this idea.

It made me stop and consider what decisions I made because of past negative events or experiences that I place in my future and then create that same unwanted outcome. If I can become aware of the experience and the thought, or the decision I made about myself, I can then affect my future outcomes, I can begin changing them. If, for example, I believe I am unworthy of earning more than $50,000 per year because I've never been paid more than that before and I've had many experiences where I was told I would not be paid what I thought I should be paid based on my experience or worth, I can change that thought, that expectation. And I can expect to earn $100,000 per year or more.

By being conscious of the decision made in the past about myself, I can affect my future and change who I become. I can become someone who earns more money.

Byron Katie, an author, says we should always ask if we really know something is true. I would have to ask myself if I really knew it was true that I was unworthy of getting paid more. If I can't answer, "Yes, it's true," then it must be true that I am worthy of getting paid more. So I have to ask myself if this is true. Can I answer yes to that question?

Can you think of a decision you made in your past that is affecting who you are now? Do you know if the decision is based on truth? Can you change your mind so you can affect your future positively?

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How Does the Past Affect Your Future? - Nina Amir

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Have you ever thought about why you are who you are right now, and how you will create who you will be in the future? When I ask most people what makes them who they are right now, they respond, "My past experiences. My education. My environment. My genetics."

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I've been reading an article about the future when they grow up an adult when they could get a job and it tells me about everything. when you expect them to be true tomorrow, the next day, next week, or a month from now–you perpetuate yourself being the same person you believe yourself to be in the future. You recreate the same experiences over and over again, proving to yourself over and over again that you are, indeed, this person, that's what it says about the article.

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Have you ever thought about why you are who you are right now, and how you will create who you will be in the future?

When I ask most people what makes them who they are right now, they respond, "My past experiences. My education. My environment. My genetics." These are things that either happened in the past or that you were born with-things you carry with you from the past into the future.

And when it comes to the experiences you had, you made decisions about those experiences that you also take forward with you. In fact, you project them forward into the future. You expect those decisions-those thoughts-to continue being true. Thoughts like:

I'm not good enough.

People don't like me.

I should have been a boy (or a girl).

Men (or women) leave me.

I never have enough money.

I'm not worthy of earning more money.

I make bad decisions.

I'm unlovable.

I'm ugly.

I'm stupid.

With these thoughts projected out into the future-with you expecting them to be true tomorrow, the next day, next week, a month from now-you perpetuate yourself being that same person you believe yourself to be in the future. You recreate the same experiences over and over again, proving to yourself over and over again that you are, indeed, this person.

When you stop expecting to find yourself in that same situation over and over again-expecting to find poof that you are that person, you will stop having those experiences. For this to happen, you have to leave all of these experiences and decisions in the past. Stop bringing them with you into the future.

I learned all of this long ago when I was doing a variety of self-help, personal growth and human potential workshops and seminars, like the Loving Relationships Training. It can be hard to remember these lessons though, when you aren't around other like-minded people who also know these principles. The other day a colleague invited me to a preview of the Landmark Forum workshops. There I was reminded of this idea.

It made me stop and consider what decisions I made because of past negative events or experiences that I place in my future and then create that same unwanted outcome. If I can become aware of the experience and the thought, or the decision I made about myself, I can then affect my future outcomes, I can begin changing them. If, for example, I believe I am unworthy of earning more than $50,000 per year because I've never been paid more than that before and I've had many experiences where I was told I would not be paid what I thought I should be paid based on my experience or worth, I can change that thought, that expectation. And I can expect to earn $100,000 per year or more.

By being conscious of the decision made in the past about myself, I can affect my future and change who I become. I can become someone who earns more money.

Byron Katie, an author, says we should always ask if we really know something is true. I would have to ask myself if I really knew it was true that I was unworthy of getting paid more. If I can't answer, "Yes, it's true," then it must be true that I am worthy of getting paid more. So I have to ask myself if this is true. Can I answer yes to that question?

Can you think of a decision you made in your past that is affecting who you are now? Do you know if the decision is based on truth? Can you change your mind so you can affect your future positively?

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How Does the Past Affect Your Future? - Nina Amir

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What I learned in my article and how it connects to my question is that it takes time to get where we are. We have to take certain steps to take us where we want, it's not just magically given to us. It may come fast, but you still have to patient. His interset sparked only because of a simple air plane ride. Imagine if he decided to not ride it, everything would be different and he would have no interest in what he has now.
- Shuahlu

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Neil Armstrong, in full Neil Alden Armstrong, (born August 5, 1930, Wapakoneta, Ohio, U.S.-died August 25, 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio), U.S. astronaut, the first person to set foot on the Moon.

Early life and career

Neil Armstrong was the eldest of three children born to Viola Louise Engel and Stephen Koenig Armstrong, a state auditor. Neil's passion for aviation and flight was kindled when he took his first airplane ride at age 6. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and earned the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank attainable. He became a licensed pilot on his 16th birthday and a naval air cadet in 1947. His studies in aeronautical engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, were interrupted in 1950 by his service in the Korean War, during which he was shot down once and was awarded three Air Medals. He completed his degree in 1955 and immediately became a civilian research pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), later the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He flew more than 1,100 hours, testing various supersonic fighters as well as the X-15 rocket plane.

In 1962 Armstrong joined the space program with its second group of astronauts. On March 16, 1966, Armstrong, as command pilot of Gemini 8, and David R. Scott rendezvoused with an unmanned Agena rocket and completed the first manual space docking maneuver. After the docking, a rocket thruster malfunction sent the spacecraft into an uncontrolled spin and forced them to separate from the Agena. Armstrong then regained control of the Gemini craft and made an emergency splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, along with Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, blasted off in the Apollo 11 vehicle toward the Moon ( see Apollo program). Four days later, at 4:17 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), the Eagle lunar landing module, guided manually by Armstrong, touched down on a plain near the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquillity ( Mare Tranquillitatis). At 10:56 pm EDT on July 20, 1969, Armstrong stepped from the Eagle onto the Moon's dusty surface with the words, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." (In the excitement of the moment, Armstrong skipped the "a" in the statement that he had prepared.) Armstrong and Aldrin left the module for more than two hours and deployed scientific instruments, collected surface samples, and took numerous photographs.

On July 21, after 21 hours and 36 minutes on the Moon, they lifted off to rendezvous with Collins and begin the voyage back to Earth. After splashdown in the Pacific at 12:51 pm EDT on July 24, the three astronauts spent 18 days in quarantine to guard against possible contamination by lunar microbes. During the days that followed, and during a tour of 21 nations, they were hailed for their part in the opening of a new era in human exploration of the universe.

Later career

Armstrong resigned from NASA in 1971. After Apollo 11 he shied away from being a public figure and confined himself to academic and professional endeavours. From 1971 to 1979 he was professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio). After 1979 Armstrong served as chairman or director for a number of companies, among them Computing Technologies for Aviation from 1982 to 1992 and AIL Systems (later EDO Corporation), a maker of electronic equipment for the military, from 1977 until his retirement in 2002. He also served on the National Commission on Space (NCOS), a panel charged with setting goals for the space program, and on the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, the group appointed in 1986 to analyze the safety failures in the Challenger disaster. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Adam Augustyn.

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in this article, I learned about Neil Armstrong and his struggles growing up and what he went through. I connected this with my essential question because in every event that happens in his life there is a cause and effect, something that he does that has an effect on his life in the future at a point like when he piloted his first plane at the age of 6 which sparked his interest fr flying which made him a licensed pilot by the age of 16 and then after joined the air force and flown airplanes throughout his career. he left the airforce and was a teacher but was interrupted when he was called in to fly in the Korean war, in effect to the cause of him being in the airforce and flying planes he was shot down once which could be a deathly experience. but that made him take a break from the airforce. which in effect made him join NASA and was the biggest point in his life when he stepped foot on the moon. none of this would have happened if he hadn't flown that plane at the age of 6. meaning the action he made then impacted the rest of his life- timothy

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Neil Armstrong, in full Neil Alden Armstrong, (born August 5, 1930, Wapakoneta, Ohio, U.S.-died August 25, 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio), U.S. astronaut, the first person to set foot on the Moon.

Early life and career

Neil Armstrong was the eldest of three children born to Viola Louise Engel and Stephen Koenig Armstrong, a state auditor. Neil's passion for aviation and flight was kindled when he took his first airplane ride at age 6. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America and earned the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank attainable. He became a licensed pilot on his 16th birthday and a naval air cadet in 1947. His studies in aeronautical engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, were interrupted in 1950 by his service in the Korean War, during which he was shot down once and was awarded three Air Medals. He completed his degree in 1955 and immediately became a civilian research pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), later the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He flew more than 1,100 hours, testing various supersonic fighters as well as the X-15 rocket plane.

In 1962 Armstrong joined the space program with its second group of astronauts. On March 16, 1966, Armstrong, as command pilot of Gemini 8, and David R. Scott rendezvoused with an unmanned Agena rocket and completed the first manual space docking maneuver. After the docking, a rocket thruster malfunction sent the spacecraft into an uncontrolled spin and forced them to separate from the Agena. Armstrong then regained control of the Gemini craft and made an emergency splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, along with Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael Collins, blasted off in the Apollo 11 vehicle toward the Moon ( see Apollo program). Four days later, at 4:17 pm U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), the Eagle lunar landing module, guided manually by Armstrong, touched down on a plain near the southwestern edge of the Sea of Tranquillity ( Mare Tranquillitatis). At 10:56 pm EDT on July 20, 1969, Armstrong stepped from the Eagle onto the Moon's dusty surface with the words, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." (In the excitement of the moment, Armstrong skipped the "a" in the statement that he had prepared.) Armstrong and Aldrin left the module for more than two hours and deployed scientific instruments, collected surface samples, and took numerous photographs.

On July 21, after 21 hours and 36 minutes on the Moon, they lifted off to rendezvous with Collins and begin the voyage back to Earth. After splashdown in the Pacific at 12:51 pm EDT on July 24, the three astronauts spent 18 days in quarantine to guard against possible contamination by lunar microbes. During the days that followed, and during a tour of 21 nations, they were hailed for their part in the opening of a new era in human exploration of the universe.

Later career

Armstrong resigned from NASA in 1971. After Apollo 11 he shied away from being a public figure and confined himself to academic and professional endeavours. From 1971 to 1979 he was professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati (Ohio). After 1979 Armstrong served as chairman or director for a number of companies, among them Computing Technologies for Aviation from 1982 to 1992 and AIL Systems (later EDO Corporation), a maker of electronic equipment for the military, from 1977 until his retirement in 2002. He also served on the National Commission on Space (NCOS), a panel charged with setting goals for the space program, and on the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, the group appointed in 1986 to analyze the safety failures in the Challenger disaster. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Adam Augustyn.

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the article thought about how we can always have job changes but even if we are the first man on the moon it doesn't mean we want to be in the spotlight and have lots of people following us, in this case, Neal Armstrong still went back to his quiet life after going to the moon he went to be a teacher at a polite school and stayed there till he stopped working at 2002 to live a peaceful life. Neal went back to what he loves even after being shot in the Korean War and going to space so his actions did turn out good for him because he just went with it knowing what he wanted in his heart and never let it go

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The article thought me how to make better decisions with 4 simple steps. 1. Stop and be Aware, 2. Explain the pros and cons, 3. Think about your future self, and 4. See the bigger picture. Using these steps will help you to decide if you really want to make that decision or not based on how it's going to affect you now and in the future. - Jordyn

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Who you are today is a result of all the decisions you've taken in your life. That includes everything you've done, thought and said in the last few days.

So is the way your life looks like, the relationships you have and whether you're happy or not.

The thing is that the little decisions that eventually lead to actions are what defines how your life will look like someday. So with everything you do, you're creating your future.

Let's assume that you're in a bad shape and not satisfied with the body you have.

If you analyze the things you've been doing for the last few weeks, you'll realize that this is the only possible outcome.

You will remember each cheat meal, every time you missed a workout and chose to stay in front of the TV instead of going to the gym, the many times you avoided walking or basically every form of being active and chose driving, public transport, or just didn't go anywhere. Also, the nights you went to bed late, the mornings you skipped breakfast, the midnight snacks, and so on.

Thinking about each of this separately may look like nothing serious to you. But combining them and seeing the whole picture opens your eyes.

And what you need to do is change your habits and lifestyle in general.

That applies to every aspect of your life. To many of mine too. When I summarize my decisions in one area, the current situation seems absolutely expected. Here are a few ways to take more deliberate decisions and stop being indecisive:

How to Make Better Decisions

1. Stop and be aware.

We live on autopilot most of the time and do things unconsciously.

So before you do anything, try to stop for a few seconds, to look around, understand what's going on and think about it. That will make you mindful of what you're about to do.

2. Examine the pros and cons.

That can take just a minute or two but can become a solid reason not to do what you were going to.

So just tell yourself the good and bad (focus on these) sides of the situation.

3. Think about your future self.

Will the future you be happy with the choice you're about to make?

When it comes down to eating junk food, for instance, it won't be, for sure. You may feel the instant satisfaction this kind of food brings, but you're making future you fat and in a bad shape.

4. See the bigger picture.

You may make this choice now, okay. But if you're realistic, it won't be just one time (even if you're so sure now).
So consider the long-term outcome of a few decisions like that. Or doing it for years. Or daily.

Try to imagine how you're going to feel about it after some time. Maybe your unhealthy, spending, egoistic or career choices will make your future life full of diseases, jobs you don't like, money issues, no meaningful relationships.
Is that how you want to spend your life? Are these your big goals?

I guess not.

So the only way to change that negative outcome is to come back to the present moment, be fully mindful of it, and make good decisions.

And there are ways to stay positive and feel the benefits of these choices, even though you're not doing what you currently want to:

focus on what you already have;

be grateful, appreciate it;

know you're doing something about your future today;

imagine how proud you'll be some time from now;

you're fighting your inner demons;

every time you make a decision and consider your future self, you're building character and becoming a responsible person;

your willpower increases;

you're a role model for others.

Have you made small choices like that which affect your future recently? How do you feel after that?

See also:

Savor Discipline: Merge the Interests of Your Future & Present Selves
Think long term to make good decisions
Harness Your Mind's "Future Self" Bias to Make Better Decisions

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How Every Single Decision Affects Your Future (+ 4 Ways to Be More Decisive)

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this article taught me that to have a good future we need to make good decisions, for us and for others when we avoid the choices we are faced with we inhibit ourselves and cause ourselves to become overwhelmingly incapable of handling life and that if you want to change your life you need to start by taking small steps. - Macy Noble