When your memories of the past are bigger than your dreams for the future, you're on your way to the grave.
Do you long for the past when your practice was more fulfilling? Do you long for your youth when you had fewer responsibilities? Do you long for the days when life was simple and decisions easier? Do you long for the time when patients would follow your commands? Do you long for the era when insurance reimbursement was more generous?
If you're living in the past, focused on the "good old days," you've surrendered to a memory and resisting what is. Life is supposed to be an adventure! Resisting change and clinging to a romantic notion of the past is merely a feeble attempt at making your world small enough to control. Not only will your effort be in vain, but your attempts will make you increasingly brittle, irrelevant and unappreciated.
Dream!