There's no sense trying to change the present

I heard the message below on a podcast this morning and thought that is was worth repeating here.

There's no sense trying to change your present situation for the present is constantly changing and is a perfect reflection of your past decisions.   Since we cannot change our past decisions or actions we must change the way we interpret their outcome to find out what brought us to this present situation we are experiencing.  The key is to  focus our energy in the future toward the desired present situation you wish to create for yourself and make decisions based on that. 

That concept seems like common sense but that insight isn't always easy to see when things aren't going the way you'd like.  Hopefully I'll remember this the next time it happens to me.