How to Live Your Own Life

You will never find peace of mind by allowing other people to live your life for you.


The most profound fact concerning humanity is this: The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengeable right of prerogative over one thing, and only one thing - our own mind. It must have been the creator's purpose to encourage us to live our own life, to think our own thoughts without interference from others. Otherwise we will not have been provided with such a clear dominion over our minds.
Simply exercise this profound prerogative over your own mind and life, you may lift yourself to great heights of achievement in any field of endeavor you choose. Exercising this prerogative is the only real approach to genius. A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
We all know stories about famous people who turned adversity into advantage, who overcome great obstacles to become rich and famous. They are the successful people who converted stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
But there is a far greater number of lesser-known mortals who refuse to accept defeats. They simply refuse to become one of the vast majority who do little more than eke out a living and experience mostly misery, disappointment and failure.