ARE YOU BEING HELD CAPTIVE?
ARE YOU BEING HELD CAPTIVE?
As a reference point I will use this quote from Mark Caine: The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you find yourself”.
Throughout your lives you will find yourselves in environments that you may or may not have chosen. But the question becomes, How do you deal with it? Do you fret and complain because of where you are or do you vow to not allow the environment to dictate your future? Sometimes it is not possible to extricate yourself from your environment, i.e. where you have to live, until you become self sufficient, or the family into which you are born.
In most cases, however, you do have a level control – the choice to remain or extricate yourself. Either you take control of your environment or your environment takes control of you. When you realize that where you are in your life is not where you want to be only you can take control of the situation and begin taking steps, even baby steps to move to where you want to go.
Early in my life I could have allowed my environment to dictate the direction of my future. As a young girl who grew up on a small farm, college was not high on my agenda after high school. Instead I wanted a “good” job and did not think I needed a college education to get one. After floundering in dead-end jobs for four years, I came to the realization that I needed a college education to have the kind of life I wanted. It was only after I got serious about taking control of the direction of my future that positive things began to happen. I started college at the age of
twenty-two instead of eighteen. I accepted the fact that it is never too late to do something if you want to do it badly enough. Fortunately, I made this discovery at a young age. No matter what your age, if you are not happy with the environment in which you find yourself, it is never too late to make a change.
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June 13th, 2010
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June 16th, 2010
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June 20th, 2010
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June 22nd, 2010
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June 22nd, 2010
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June 23rd, 2010
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June 25th, 2010
Glad the issue was clarified. Need not let your environment control your destiny.