Don’t be beating yourself up or jumping to erroneous conclusions when things happen in your life. Just stop for a minute and think about all the negative emotional energy you have expended on getting worked up about stuff. Count up those occasions and just imagine what it would have been like if you had enthusiastically embraced each and every challenging situation—if you even jumped around and did a happy dance every time this occurred. Would it have had any impact on the outcome? Probably not, but you would have felt better, and been in a much better frame of mind for launching yourself into rescue and recovery mode. Maybe that would have impacted the outcome in a favourable way. Either way, you will not know the difference, because you can only inhabit one outcome pathway at a time, and that happens sequentially. So you will not have the ability to compare and contrast. The only thing you can actually monitor is your state of mind or emotional well-being. True warriors are aware that they cannot be aware of paths not taken and lives not lived. True warriors realize that they can only experience the path taken, and that by being in the best possible condition at all times, they choose to be happy, humble, and inquisitive. Such is the power of our God-given gift of free will and choice.

You are warriors. Choose happiness over strife, humility over your ego, and integrity over instant gratification, and you will be a man among men or a woman among women who can (and will) be counted upon. So it is written.