We humans have a rather funny tendency to blame or attempt to change the people around us when things aren’t going according to our hopes – it seems easier than transforming ourselves. Is there anyone you’ve tried to change lately? How’s that working?

So let’s hold in our minds a truth about life, one of the big ones: we don’t have the power to change people. Parents, siblings, teachers – they just are who they are. Their stamps on our lives are inevitable, the good ones as well as the challenging ones, so no pointing fingers at Mom. No blaming your first grade teacher. No getting stuck in the “Victim Habit.” The only true source of power comes when you turn your finger around and point it at your own chest, accept the habits that manifest in your life today, and then make choices about how and who you want to be tomorrow, next week, and next month.