Gaining Control to Get Back to Work

Well, hello there and thanks for surfing my wave!
 
I was over-protected and heavily controlled.  The leash around my neck was rather stringent.  Maybe that’s why I hate wearing ties…  During college, I was never able to stay over during break; I always had to fly home.  Couldn’t do what my friends were doing whether it was skiing, hiking in the mountains or just hanging out.  I was constantly micro-managed and told what to do – seldom allowed to make choices or decisions as a child which is, quite possibly, why I might have made more mistakes than I would have liked as an adult.  Inexperience: not being empowered to make small judgments where the outcome would not have been a toll on me as a person but, rather, would have given me tools, confidence and self-esteem that would have better prepared me for adulthood.
 
As a new driver, I was invariably abusing curfew and it’s conceivable I chose the wrong University for the wrong reasons.  I was reasonably inefficient organizing, keeping to schedules and budgeting time.
 
Control.
 
It can be dominating, crushing and divisive; useful and cathartic all at the same time.  I knew myself better than most and, through extreme trial and error, was and still am highly cognizant of my limitations.  I learned.
 
Now, more than ever, I must take all my life’s lessons and take control.  In our jobless, undirected lives, we must quickly calculate, analyze and develop a barometer of what is working and what isn’t.  What controls are affecting results and which are weighing us down.  In my childhood and as a young adult, these tools were nonexistent; right and wrong were expressed, not permitted to develop and bloom.  The plane we must pilot now requires skills and power beyond our reach.
 
Control.
 
We must research and test alternative airstreams.  The dashboards and instrumentations of yesterday are fading faster than the virtual ink on the pages of your last application.  To avert a crash we must either change gears or come up with newly created ones to keep us on course and guide us to a safe landing.  I urge us all to design a craft in which you can be the pilot, where you too can regain control of those lost flights and errant miles.  Build yourself a vessel and locate new associates to board your flight plan and maybe, just maybe, you won’t have to keep coming home if you’ve been informed you’re lost.  You will have the self-assurance and proper personnel to maneuver your world to success and freedom.  Freedom to know you can.  Freedom to know you can beat the odds… oh, wait a minute.  The odds were always in your favor; you just allowed yourself to believe that somebody advised you they weren’t.
 
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