David Parker’s Reviews > Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa > Status Update

Responsibility is a position. An attitude towards events. You can either take responsibility or you can feel victimized by the world. Your choice of whether to play the victim or take responsibility will determine whose power grows — yours or someone else’s. If you take the position of victim, you lose power. If you choose responsibility, you have power then, to do something about what’s happening. Attitude.

Complaining is like blaming the wind for the dust.

Join the mob or go for what you want. Give yourself plenty of quiet time alone in order to get in touch with who you are … Focus power of thought. Remind yourself that the world is yours for the asking. The non-risk taker does not grow, you just get older. When you have decided which ideas, beliefs, relationships and situations no longer work for you, it is time to release them. Let go of negative thoughts—