"Wrap your arms around a memory"

"And even if these scenes of our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would be like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not."

The passage is from the book "In Search of Lost Time" (À la recherche du temps perdu) by Marcel Proust.

How does this relate to business? Well...there are a few folks out there who try and hold onto the past and especially if it was the 'glorious' past. There are important reasons to look at the past for work so you can show you have pedigree but remind yourself that we don't always have a way to cling to it. The past is the past. There are no ways to bring it to the forefront of your current situation. Learn from the past but don't automatically equate it to the present day. Meaning...just because it worked before doesn't mean it's going to work again.

Allow yourself a moment to enjoy your victories but don't 'live in them' because guess what? They are gone. Create new ones. You did it before...so do it again.