If past performance was less than desirable, you must invest the time in creating a past that you are proud of. Doing one good deed today is not much of a past. Doing good deeds over and over until you can’t remember when the last bad deed was done is creating a past. The road up is much harder than the road down. One bad deed can ruin a lifetime of good intentions. A lifetime of good intentions is created one good deed at a time.