The Past is The Past:  
Let’s Talk About How You Flutter Forward!

Kevin E. Taylor

I am a person who loves quotes and catchy phrases because they can be a launchpad for clarity and focus.  Sometimes those quotes come to me through brilliant thinkers, artists, activists, preachers and poets.  But sometimes they come through me, from a space that seems like “nowhere” but that is closer than breath.  I want to give you one of those today, and hopefully it will shift the ways you show up in your life.

“Butterflies Don’t Spend Any Time Trying to Explain Their Caterpillar Pasts!”

This is it.  This is the point in your life where you stop apologizing and explaining and trying to get the greatest number of people to like you.  People don’t really care about those details, especially when you don’t.  

We can waste time, effort and energy trying to justify our pasts and choices we made when we were younger and perhaps didn’t know what or why we didn’t when we didn’t know it.  Even if you believe that you understood what you were doing at that age, before now, you have grown to learn and develop a new sense of understanding.  You grew and flourished, expanding yourself into a new version of YOU.  And since YOU are not the YOU that you were a lifetime ago, a decade ago or even pre-pandemic, you have changed.  CELEBRATE THAT!  ELEVATE THAT!  Walk in that and stand by that.  You do not have to explain the mistakes, missteps and missed opportunities that you endured before today because they all got you where you are and, in case you are missing it:  YOU ARE HERE!

Now, are you ready to flutter forward? To flutter is to hover by flapping the wings quickly and lightly.  There is a grace, an ease and a clarity with which you are to move forward from here.  No more struggling and panicking and fear.  With a flutter forward and fly focus, you can do great things and you are supposed to because you are here on purpose, with purpose.  You worried before today but today, you get it. You don’t have to explain the stuff, the stuck, the stagnant, the scared, the scarred of your past any longer.  You get it!  You did it!  YOU MADE IT!  Celebrate that and keep moving.  You do not have to explain why you did what you did because it was all you knew to do.  You know better, now.  Do better now and do not look back.

FLUTTER FORWARD!