The "Chosen Ones" Choose Themselves

There is no outside white knight or savior who can or will magically hand you the results you seek. Only you can do that.

a willingness to be agents in shaping their lives. The world beckons to each one of us, challenging us to ply our talents and carve our own paths. As the existential philosopher and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl discovered during his World War II concentration camp internment, it is our voluntary action, and not what we’re forced to do, that determine

I’m inspired by all of these people, perhaps because I see a hint of my own journey in theirs. As my daughter Anne says, I’m a believer. I had a real fighter mentality growing up. A lot of bad things happened in my life, but I taught my daughters that you can either let them control you, or you can make the rest of your life great.

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what?