"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. "

Winston Churchill

Like Orrin Woodward’s writer points out in the previous entry… you cannot move forward in progress unless and until you can forgive your past.  Yes, stop long enough to learn the lesson that must be learned for the sake of avoiding the destiny of repeating it again.  Then... MOVE ON!  As Orrin Woodward and the Team not only teach, but do, focus on what you’re going to... not what you’re going through.  Some people continue to repeatedly focus on what they’ve already gone through, reliving it over and over again.  Listen, the funeral is over...  It’s time for the burial.  Orrin and the Team system have literally leveled the playing field for anyone willing to pursue a worthwhile goal or dream allowing them to leave their baggage of the past at the doorstep and enter with renewed opportunity to change the past by progressing into the future with hope and a new attitude for achieving better.  Whether it be in your marriage, with your children, perhaps financially, in your career or business, or maybe breaking the labels imposed upon you by society and trading them in for positive self-esteem, this is an atmosphere of encouragement where it's OK to reach for greatness, and if you stumble and even fall, you are supported, taught, and encouraged to get up and give it another go. 

From the book The Proverbs of Leadership by Stevenson Willis.

To find the way forward you must first find the way to forgive.

The only shame in failure is to neglect to learn from it.

To forget a mistake before seeking its lesson condemns you to repeat it and thus relive its pain.

To learn from error is to gain experience;  to forgive yourself the error, freedom.

This definitely reminds me of Orrin Woodward who always says, " The lesson continues until the lesson is learned."

Orrin Woodward says that everybody will fail, it is how we react that matters.  Do we learn from it and get ourselves back up and continue to strive to be the best we can.  I know that is what Orrin Woodward does and teaches his leaders on the TEAM.