How to Take Charge of Your Life

I read this book back when I was twenty-four, and now at age forty-one, I still reap the benefits from the nuggets of wisdom passed on. This book was one of three books, the others being 'How to be Your Own Best Friend, and 'Celebrate Yourself' that truly changed my life and set me on the right track into adulthood. Every young adult should have a copy of this book!

Recognizing what you have control over and acting on that information can lead to fulfillment and satisfaction. All decisions are consequential in some way. The authors tell us "Making a decision is telling people who you are." You are revealed through the decisions you make.Toward the middle of the book they discuss having an internal dialogue with yourself to determine who you really are. This is designed to help you evaluate which goals you consider to be worth pursuing. Living life is much more rewarding that simply passively existing. They note, "To be passively involved during most of your leisure time in fantasies--your own or somebody else's--could mean that your life is lacking in real satisfaction."A person "creates" his or her own life by the decisions made on a daily basis. The mental choices lead to actions, actions lead to experiences, and cumulatively life progresses. Readers are encouraged to confront and overcome any mental assumptions that hold them back from living life the way it was meant to be lived.