#14: Make It Happen
I am someone who spent a lot of time when I was younger just sitting around and waiting for things to happen to me. Of course, at the time, I’m not sure I realized that was what I was doing, but with retrospect and introspection, I see now that’s exactly what I was doing.
Then I heard a phrase that blew my mind: “You are not the main character of reality.” The main character of a TV show or book could assume that they don’t really have to do anything because things will happen to them just to keep the story going. But that’s not how real life works. If we want things to happen, we have to make them happen ourselves.