The single biggest predictor of happiness isn’t your circumstances. It’s your attention. And attention, unlike circumstances, is something you can redirect right now. Not tomorrow. Not when things calm down. Not when you’ve finished optimizing your life. Right now. In this moment. The only one that’s real.
Lachlan Brown
The life you're living right now is the sum total of every decision you've made and every decision you've avoided. That's either terrifying or freeing depending on how you look at it. I choose freeing. Because if your life is the product of your choices, then you can change it at any point. You're not trapped by circumstance. You're trapped by the belief that you can't choose differently. But you can.