Yo, today's QOD is, if it is to be, it is up to me.

Here we go. Welcome back to the quarter of the day.

I'm your host Sean Croxton.

It's Sean Croxton.

We got Jim Cathcart on this show today, and he's going to

encourage you to, if you haven't already, to make today the day when you go pro, where you say,

okay, I know what the circumstances are. I know what the conditions are, but I am going to take charge of my life.

I'm going to flex the agency that I have to be able to change the situation that I'm in.

I am willing to take full responsibility for how my life turns out. It is a very rare thing to do that.

Most people aren't willing to do that.

But the choice, my friend, the decision is with you and only you.

Jim Cathcart's coming up.

I'd like to ask you an important question.

When was the day you decided to take control of your own life?

Many people never make that decision, that choice.

They go through life blaming circumstances or luck or blaming some other person or

blaming genetics for heaven's sake.

But those who really make the mark in this world are the people who decide at some point,

if it is to be, it's up to me.

I'm going to take charge of my own life. I remember profoundly the day that that

happened for me. I was in a seminar in Little Rock, Arkansas, many, many years ago. I can still

picture the room. And it was a seminar called Adventures in Attitudes. And they asked us as one of

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