Eddie Pinero

So maybe you did.

But what does that have to do with right now?

What does that have to do with realizing the control you have over your life?

Because simply realizing you can disconnect from these narratives, that they are not you, is a superpower.

Realizing that calling yourself a bad student because you failed a test is like never taking off your raincoat because it rained yesterday.

It's like, no, the sun is out.

Adapt.

Then once you realize right now is the beginning of the rest of your life, you can start making little changes.

Identify not who you were, but who you'd love to be and move towards it.

read the power of habit and atomic habits so that you can understand change isn't crazy or big or scary it's moving little things in your life around so that they work for you not against you start waking up and thinking about not what has happened but what can happen not what can go wrong but what can go right you are always one decision away from a totally different life because you're always one decision away from change from walking away

from the narratives that you have accepted, and so remember that.

But remember it not just when things are fine.

Remember it when you're struggling, when you feel restless or uneasy, unsure, uninspired, sad, angry, not content with the reflection in the mirror.

When you feel that negativity, you're not looking at what can be, you're looking at what you have been.

And there's no room at the table for that distraction.

Not when you can reach out and start building something new.

Not when you can put on a new pair of shoes and walk down a different path.

You are always one decision away from a totally different life.

And that decision should be first and foremost to choose future over past.

Your next step over the last one, choose your ideal world and start building.