You know when two completely different moments… just click together?
This week I heard Samuel Havida say:
“In a car, the window that shows you ahead is so much bigger than the small mirror that shows you the back.”
And then this morning, this quote from Jim Carrey came back to me:
“Don’t let your memories be bigger than your dreams.”
And I thought… it’s the same message. Just said in two completely different ways.
But here’s where my mind went next…
Regret.
Because you know when regret shows up… it feels so justified.
Like you should look back.
Like you need to replay it one more time just to understand it better, or fix it in your mind.
But the truth is… regret has a way of quietly anchoring you to the past.
It keeps you emotionally parked…while your life is asking you to move.
And the longer you stay there, the smaller your dreams start to feel.
Do you get what I’m trying to say?
Because this is exactly why I care so deeply about the message of the Life Engineering Podcast.
It’s not just about growth.
It’s about creating a life of no regrets.
Not by having a perfect past, but by refusing to let the past lead your future.
By making decisions today that your future self won’t have to look back on and question.
By choosing to look through the windshield…even when the mirror is calling your attention.
Because your life doesn’t expand in the direction of what you remember, it expands in the direction of what you’re willing to build.