Short first-person reflection in which the speaker recounts hearing the phrase "My future is my property" and describes the phrase as a transformative realization. The speaker explains they had previously treated their future as controlled by others but, after adopting this mindset, committed to stop making excuses and take ownership of progress toward their goals.
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My future is my property. And when he said my future is my property, it was like a baseball bat to the head for me because I had been thinking that my future was someone else's property. I was waiting for someone else to come along and tell me what my future was going to be. And when Dan said my future is my property, I said, God darn it, you're right. My future is my property. It's not butchers, it's not the governments, it's not the people on our team. It's not the frustration I'm feeling. The future is what I want it to be. And that changed my mentality in the most profound way that anything has besides getting married. And once I accepted that my future was my property, I was no longer going to take any BS from myself. I was no longer going to be the excuse for me not getting what I want or making progress towards what I want.