Freedom

The greatest freedom in life is not money, or physical strength, or sheer charisma. The greatest freedom you could ever have is the freedom to choose.

Before you use your money to create opportunities, before you use brute force to make things happen, before you charm yourself into a favorable position, you make a decision. Whether or not this decision will bring you the results you desire is irrelevant to the principle of freedom that having a choice holds.

The world could declare war against you, but you still have the freedom to surrender, or go down swinging. You could be face to face with a ferocious lion right before it opens its mouth wide open to take a bite out of you, and you have the freedom to get eaten, or give life a shot and lay the smackdown on the goliath.

A choice. A decision.

When you think about it, that's the only thing that separates your actions. In between actions are simply your decisions. Your decision to do good, or do evil. To do something, or do nothing. It's beautiful, isn't it?

Granted, there are many influences around us that play into the decision we make. There are influences from within us that have somehwat been programmed as we were raised. But ultimately, we are free to choose what we want to do.

This is where no is as much an option as yes! Where 'have to' turns into 'want to.' And where a life of slavery to external factors become a lifetime of freedom coming from internal factors.

You have power to choose. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Because ultimately, this will determine whether you'll succeed in life. Successful people choose success. Unsuccessful people follow others in their success. Which one would you rather be?