If you won't make your own ways to live, someone else will hold the athourity to make.
"the pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hands" - Irene C. Kassorla.
In order to be happier and successful, it is important to take responsibility in each of the areas of your life. A lot of people feel helpless today but it is a false feeling. You can absolutely free yourself from fears and the feeling of helplessness. All you need to do is to take a complete control of your life. you are supposed to be that authority that makes all the important decisions about you.
Now here's the question what ceases you to make the influence of yourself on life? what makes you rely on others? well, it is because people are afraid of taking responsibility for the consequences. they lack the confidence and the right beliefs and then they start becoming dependent on others.
Living life is just like driving a car. now it's to you to drive it yourself or let others sit in the driver's seat. you can sit on the back seat, complaining about the happenings around, Making excuses for the failures. Or you can take the hold off driving seat and determine your ways to reach your destiny. you will face short-term fears and accidents may be. but then slowly you will learn to drive the car of your life perfectly. another important thing is that car needs a fuel to getstarted. Now, what is that fuel in life? That is the knowledge. The knowledge is the key. The knowledge is the fuel. To be succeeded in your life you need to have a right kind of education or knowledge and what is that? this is what related to your field. Generally, when we see people around gathering information which is not linked to their profession, they are involved in useless information, gossiping around about. You need to have right kind of information to get your goals.