One of the most important steps on your journey towards Self Awareness is determining whether you believe your life is up to Chance or if you think you actually have a Choice in how circumstances and conditions show up for you. 

We have been taught that our lives are up to Chance. We go about our lives thinking, feeling and acting as we are victims of external events. 

Most of us live out our days controlled by circumstances.

We wake up in the morning and wonder what will happen to us today- Will it be a “good” day or a “bad” day?  

When something “good’ happens we feel uplifted. When something bad happens we feel defeated. We hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
It doesn’t have to be this way. You can change. You always have a choice. Even when it doesn’t seem like it. 

One of the most powerful and liberating steps we can take, is to stop 

seeing yourself as a victim of eternal circumstances and realize that you always have a choice. 

And you are creating your life through your choices. 

You can choose your reactions. 

You can choose your attitude. 

You can choose to find meaning and purpose in your life. 

Even when life seems dark. Even when we have suffered extreme pain and loss. 

Dr. Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and author of the inspirational book, “Mans Search for Meaning” called our ability to choose our attitudes regardless of external circumstances, the last of our human freedoms. 

Even under the most trying circumstances, our choice cannot be taken from us. 

We can choose joy. We can choose optimism. We can choose gratitude. 

Life if not happening to us. We are happening to life. 

You are not a victim of circumstance. Your life is up to Choice not Chance.