To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?

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What is you but judgement? What decides everything you do but judgement? You create your beliefs, then, as things come to you, you act based upon those beliefs, which creates a sort of automatic choose your adventure. If you want to change the course of your life then first you change your beliefs.

You can look at people and see the clear evidence of this, you know people who desire money, look at where they are, you know people who desire pleasure, look at where they are, you know people who desire aversion from responsibilities, look at where they are. Where they are is the natural course of their desires interacting with externals. Choose what you value and what you do not carefully.