The least risky option is the one that allows you the ability to choose your own path. 

If you want a different life, 

find a different story,

tell a different story,

believe a different story. 

The answer is not desire, willpower, or motivation. 

The answer is always commitment, discipline, and courage. 

When you focus on what you can control, your path becomes clear. 

You cannot control predictions of the future;

you can control your integrity, courage, and discipline.

Being two faced is worse than being rude. 

Being two faced is worse than being a jerk. 

Being two faced hurts others in multiple ways, continuously, while protecting yourself. 

Being a rude jerk only hurts once. 

When we understand ourselves, we begin to understand others as well. 

If we spend enough time, we will figure out the best way to help. 

Doing something we know will work, often stops us from doing anything. 

Society has rules.

There are practices and norms in every culture and community. 

You don’t need to believe in them, or even follow them.

But the consequences don’t care about you or your beliefs. 

They come no matter what, based on how you act. 

Hope needs Strategy.

Strategy needs Hope.

Hope is a great motivator, but Hope is not Strategy.

Hope ignites the action, but the knowing of what to do and when to do it is the Strategy.

Hope without Strategy is lost. 

Strategy without Hope is fruitless. 

Combined Hope & Strategy create correct action and drive real results.