"...Bound to Repeat It."

"Those who don't know history are destined (bound) to repeat it." Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

What is not often shown in a project plan or schedule is where you have been. Focus tends to land solely on where you currently are and where you are going. There is usually little to no consideration of what has already transpired. I would suggest that it is imperative to consider and examine just how the past has affected your current placement. It seems that when we disregard or quickly discard any past missteps and/or victories we often set ourselves up for the possibility of a two-fold problem. We will either hop right back on the cycle of failure, which mirrors past shortcomings, or forget how we once obtained success, lose momentum by being uninformed, and wind up with a negative result. 

Experience has proven to me that the person with the best notes in the room has the most power. There is something innate in those who have found success in almost every field; they don't repeat past mistakes and they identify the formula, method and/or thought-processes that garnered success. Those items are documented and mastered as they move forward to greater conquests. 

As believers we have a great collection of historical "notes" contained in scripture. If we do not study the successes, promises, as well as the failures of others we are doomed to repeat them. Maturity and great success for me has become doing the seemingly elementary things consistently. In your own quiet time examine some of your great triumphs and defeats of the last few months and ask the Lord to help you identify areas that you should maintain, show you where you went wrong in the past and how to abandon those things moving forward.

 ^"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." James 1:22-25