Life is change – it is never static.

No matter how much we may want things to remain the same, they never are. Every moment is different from the one before and will be different from the one to follow.

This can be frustrating if we are trying to hold onto things.

We can feel that life is slipping through our fingers, that we cannot control what is happening, that we are helpless victims of circumstance.

But we are not victims, we are creators.

We are where we are in life because of the choices we have made along the way. We may not feel that we have always had a choice, but if we look closely we will see that we did.

Even not taking action and allowing things to happen to us is a choice.

Because we are creators, we have a responsibility to ourselves to create the environment, perceptions and thoughts that support us through life.

It is very easy to slip into habits that are not supportive – we give our power away to others far too easily by holding on to negative emotions like fear, guilt and resentment.

But we have power. At any single moment we can change the course of our life.

We can choose a different path.

It starts with a decision to change how we think. Right now.

If we don’t like something in our life, we can change it by changing the way we think about it. The inner world precedes the outer. Our thoughts create our experiences.

And it is in the eternal present moment that we have the power to determine how we will live our lives.