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Hitchhikers assign control over their financial plans to others, which effectively introduces probabilities to victimhood.

The Law of Victims: You can’t be a victim if you don’t relinquish power to someone capable of making you a victim.

Responsibility owns your choices.

Taking responsibility is the first step to taking the driver’s seat of your life. Accountability is the final.

Failure doesn’t become the badge of victimhood—it becomes wisdom.

Immunization for victimitis occurs when you are both responsible for AND accountable to your actions and the action’s possible poor consequences. Own your mistakes, failures, and triumphs. Reflect on your choices. Are you in a situation because you put yourself there? Did you error in the process? Were you lazy? Most bad situations are consequences of bad choices. Own them and you own your life.

The Law of Victims says you can’t be a victim if you don’t relinquish power to someone capable of making you a victim.

Sidewalk: Poverty
Slowlane: Mediocrity
Fastlane: Wealth

First, wealth is not about luck but about process improving probabilities. Second, events of wealth (lotteries/casinos) are long shots and not process. Process is rarely defined by a 1-2-3 system. And finally, only you can deliver yourself to true wealth.

Wealth is not authored by material possessions, money, or “stuff,” but by what I call the three fundamental “F’s”: family (relationships), fitness (health), and freedom (choice).