I threw coins in the Trevi fountain. I visited the Villa San Michele. I drank lemon cello spritz in Amalfi. I had a holiday!   Italy and France were wonderful and I’m so glad to be home after five weeks away.     And I've been reflecting on how the past doesn’t have to define us. And it doesn’t create our future unless we let it.   I heard a great story recently originally told by Alan Watts.   If you imagine your life as a boat, and you stand at the back looming down into the water, you will see the wake.   It’s where you’ve been, but it doesn’t drive the boat.   What drives your life is the present moment energy and direction you give yourself. Like the motor of the boat.   If like me,  stories form the past sometimes engulf and threaten you, it’s good to remember this, and I'm exploring it on the podcast today.