You can't control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond. That's where personal freedom starts: mastering your own reactions instead of trying to control everything around you.
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So where do we start? Where do we start when we're working on gaining more personal freedom? And this is where I say we have work to do on multiple levels, because there are circumstances and situations that are beyond our immediate control. And there are circumstances and situations that happen to us, and they happen and they feel like they're beyond our control. And they certainly can be. The thing we have control over is what we have control over the way we respond. We have control over the way we respond to any circumstance. And so the first place that we need to be showing up, the first place that we need to be focused when we've got things going on, is we need to start with ourselves.