And what you are.

“We are our choices.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre

Choice not chance determines your destiny. That is, you can choose to hear your calling and fulfill your purpose, not lay in wait for fate.

Since excellence is never an accident, it cannot be consigned to chance, circumstance or happenstance.  And to convince yourself of these falsehoods is to fully believe that “it wasn’t meant to be”, or “my timing was off”, and “I didn’t want this anyway.”  Responses that are embodied in some form of luck, as it were.

Choices actually serve to create the chance to be your best.  Choices guide your decisions in situations when unforeseen circumstances raise their head.  Choices ultimately dominate happenstance and coincidence, transforming them into opportunity. Another way of considering how the impact of your chosen response, to an event, produces an outcome.  

You can choose to believe it wasn’t meant to be – or – you can make it be.  If the timing seems off, maybe your choices made it so.  And if you didn’t want it anyways – you never really did.  You simply chose to be dishonest with yourself. 

Chance serves as an excuse that enables one to validate failures, blame others, engage in self-pity  and defend disengagement. 

Choice is the engine that drives you to become all you were meant to be. 

And what you are.