Being that I was born on a small island in the Atlantic ocean into an uneducated working class family and then grew up in a subsidized housing complex, I must say that I’ve tested this gift of free will and witnessed, as well as explored, the attitudes that create the distinction between ‘owners’ and ‘victims’. We can choose to take genuine ownership of our lives and consequently change everything for the better or we can choose to believe pre-programmed limiting beliefs and remain as ‘victims of circumstance’.

So far I am the only person in my family’s extended history that has graduated college and then grad school so I guess I definitely broke a pattern there and chose to do something different from what had been done before. I don’t know if I necessarily needed to go through all those years of hard work and struggle with a self-financed overseas study but at the time it felt like that would be my ‘way out’, so to speak. I consider myself to be very successful in life, and my sense of success is not based on the number of dollars I may or may not have in the bank but on the fact that I wake up every morning in love with my family, and in love with my life, and I get to do exactly what it is I want to be doing! And, all because of the choices I made and keep making each and every day. The point of power is always in the present moment… where you go from here has nothing to do with luck!

Thank you for your visit to my blog and for sharing your thoughts and for questioning and even challenging this newly popular ‘school of thought’, and hence creating this fun discussion☺