On Making Choices

There are some things you can control in your life, but they aren't many. You can't control how people act towards you, or how the weather goes, or is the bus driver is a jerk, or even how your own body behaves, or your emotional impulses.

What you can control is how you think of things; the choices you make. For example:

I can't control what job I get or how much I get paid, but I CAN make the effort to put myself in the path of getting a better job.

I can't assure that my novel will someday be finished and published, but I CAN will myself to write each day, finish the manuscript and send it out to as many publishers as it takes.

And I can't make a man love me, or even be attracted to me, but I CAN keep my emotions under control, go out and meet new people and make an effort to look nice.

So now that I have an understanding of what I can control and what I can't, what now?

WILL

That's all it is. Will power.

So my problem is this: what's stopping me? Why am I so comfortable accepting the crummy way things are when I know for a fact that I can be doing things to make it better? Am I simply lazy? Do I have to hit rock bottom first?

This is definitely something I'm going to have to think about in the coming months...