You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

At a certain point we get to decide who it is we allow to influence us.

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn’t lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?

There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

We can spend out lives letting others dictate our narrative, and cast ourselves as the victims. Or we can realize the truth: that we are the creators of our own story.

You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

We can’t always choose our circumstances but we can choose how we respond to what life throws at us, and there is power when we realize our ability to alter our destiny.

We are free till we make choices. After that, the choice controls us and we have no more choice.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

We can choose the narrative we tell about our lives. We're born into cultures, nations and languages that we didn't choose. We're born with certain brain chemicals and genetic predispositions that we can't control. We're sometimes thrust into social conditions that we detest. But among all the things we don't control, we do have some control over our stories. We do have a conscious say in selecting the narrative we will use to organize perceptions.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

We are the choices we make.