Thanks to my mother, I learned early on in life that I am the only person responsible for who I am, how I show up, and what I do. It’s always been a friendly reminder in the back of my mind but it honestly wasn’t until my most recent years that I really understood what it meant. The word responsible here is huge but more than that to understand that I hold the power to who I am in life and what I get out of it is monumentally life changing. One year ago I changed my life by t