We are told, often, at a young age that "its not all about you". Well, I'm here to tell you that it is all about you. You are the one who chooses your own actions, you are the one who assigns meaning to your life (according to Victor Frankl), you are the who assigns thoughts to what has happened to you (according to Albert Ellis.) You chart your own destiny, and you are the one who has to choose to cast away the limitations provided by seeing yourself as a victim. Roseanne Barr said that people don't take our power away from, we give it to them. We choose to give our power away, mainly because of fear. I believe that if we boil down our reasons for any choice that does not lead to our growth, it is because of fear. We have a tendency to deny that...but I also believe that under nearly every negative emotion (jealousy, anger, sadness, depression), we find fear if we dig far enough.
Susan Jeffers has a wonderful book "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway". She's so right, in my opinion. Fear can't kill you. You can overcome your fear, if you want to and if you work hard enough. It all comes down to choices.
What do you choose - your growth as a person, your freedom....or fear?? Its up to you.
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