self-help books are evil

This is going to be short, I'm not sure how sweet. I've come to realize it's important to be accountable, to take responsibility, to take hold of your life. Guide it, direct it. Leave the excuses behind. They're a crutch for mediocrity. You are where you are in life because of actions you have taken or failed to have taken, decisions you've made or chosen to ignore, comments you have made and those left unsaid. So if you're happy, healthy and successful - well take pride in it. It's not luck or chance or fate that swung the pendulum of fortune your way. You've earned it. And if you're unhappy of where life has "taken" you, or you are tired of getting the raw end of the stick, well then stand up and take a measure of yourself. YOU control your life; your happiness, your well-being, your good fortune. Our future is not predicated on a die cast by a gamble-crazy diety. You alone have the power to control your life. So what are you waiting for?

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michaelangelo

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." R. Fritz