Don’t Fight Back, Fight Forward: A New Perspective on Personal and Professional Growth.

In our journey through our professional and personal lives, we often find ourselves embroiled in battles, both big and small.

We are driven and conditioned through emotional and instinctive reactions to fight back, to retaliate, to return fire with fire. This is our programming from the day we enter into this world. We are taught these lessons as a way of life, as a way to survive.

I ask you, what if we’ve been looking at it all wrong?

What if the key to winning isn’t to fight back, but to fight forward?

The phrase “Don’t fight back, fight forward” is a call to shift our perspectives on handling our missteps in our personal lives and our professional careers.

It’s about not getting stuck in the past, or dwelling on our mistakes, but instead focusing on the future and the potential for growth and progress.

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
Maraboli, S. (2013). Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience.