46. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
–Steve Maraboli
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... for what happens to you. It’s tempting to blame your problems on some external factor, but to fix your problems you must have power over them. You can’t have power over aspects of your life unless you take responsibility for them.
It means owning your actions, mistakes, and current life situation.
Understand what’s in your control, and fully own it. If you don't like something, you have the power to change it. What others do is not your concern, nor your responsibility.
If you do not spend, somebody else will - somebody else must.
What then do you think the old practice that they should take who have the power and they should keep who can is less iniquitous when the power has become power of brains instead of fist? Though we may not take ...
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