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“I keep telling myself I'm a victim of my circumstances.”
Hard things happened. That's real. But the story you keep repeating about why you can't move, that's a choice. Authorship begins the moment you stop letting your past write your next chapter.
Your Practice
Take a piece of paper. Draw a line down the middle. On the left, write what happened to you that you didn't choose. On the right, write what you can choose right now. Focus entirely on the right side for the rest of the day.
The Architects
“We won this fight because everyone made themselves the hero of their own story. Everyone took it as their job to save this crucial freedom.”
Aaron Swartz, "How We Stopped SOPA" keynote, F2C: Freedom to Connect, Washington D.C., May 21, 2012