Eddie Pinero

And if you're willing, Godspeed.

The first step towards creating the life you want is taking responsibility for the life you have.

What does this mean?

Well, it's easy to accept the good things.

The things you're proud of.

It's easy to move forward under the banner of victory.

But what about the things that may not be under your control?

The things that happened unjustly?

Or what about the things you did in your past that you're not proud of?

See, if you're going to own the good, you have to own the bad, too.

Because you can't change anything.

You can't alter the reality on the ground until you own it.

You can't make something better that you have not acknowledged and claimed to be yours.

See, our inclination when we feel like we've been wronged by life is to shake our fist at the sky, innately aware of the cosmic injustice that has occurred.

And I get it, we want to point out that injustice, label it as an adversary, maybe even an excuse.

It feels good in the short term.

But ultimately, it's depriving you of your strength, the ultimate advantage, which is substituting the word fault for responsibility.

When you're fixated on the word fault, the emphasis is placed on finding the blame.

It's replaying yesterday's movie.

Responsibility, on the other hand, says regardless of how or why this came to fruition, it's mine to fix.