Live in the now

St.Peter Stiftskulinarium, Salzburg, Austria have served food since AD 803, making it the oldest restaurant in Europe, and by most measures, in the entire world. While there have been renovations and improvements done to the restaurant in over 1000 years, they live by the motto “We love the history, but we do not live in the past.”  So many of us carry the burden of the past. We are told time and time again to live in the moment, Carpe Diem, be present ...yet the baggage we carry holds us back and in a lot of cases, is the barrier to us being our best. The motto from this restaurant will be on a T-shirt by Friday.Love your history but don't live in the past. That should be the motto for 2023. Yes we've been through some challenging periods over the last 2 or 3 years, acknowledge it learn from it, debrief it, do an after action review, but don't live there. At 1200 years old, you would have a hard time arguing against its' claim of being the oldest restaurant in the world..... although I sure someone will no doubt challenge that claim! ​