As Steve Meriboli said, we all make mistakes, have struggles and even regret things in our past,

but you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power

to shape your day and your future. And you've got to be careful about what future it is that you

decide to shape. You have to be careful about the thoughts that you let inside your mind. So many

people live their life by the law of accident, never grabbing hold of something with intention

and deciding that that's what they're going to think about, deciding that these are the thoughts

that they're going to allow in their mind and intentionally rejecting other thoughts. But as

Marcus Aurelius says, your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought

for the human spirit is colored by such impressions. And that's why it's so critical that you

decide the things that you're going to pursue mentally that you decide what you're going to

hold on to. And you have to make those decisions based on what you decide you want to become.

But it all starts with that. It all starts with knowing what it is exactly that you want to become

and recognizing the truth of the way that the human mind works, whatever you repeat, whatever you

repeat, you are going to become. If you repeat something empowering, you will become empowered.

If you repeat something self-destructive, you will destroy yourself.

But people don't act like that's true. People act like they are something that the world is

going to tell them who they are and that once they have a vision of themselves, that they are

simply recognizing the truth. But that's the lie. That is the great fallacy. That may be the greatest

lie that we've ever believed that we are somehow stuck in time that we are somehow made created

and like a pot of clay. The only thing left is to break and start over, but that's not how it

works. The way that the human mind works, we are completely malleable and we are shaped entire.

By what we hold in our minds. So take control of that process. Decide who you want to become and

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