“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

--Albert Ellis, psychologist

I doubt any of us can go more than a few days without encountering one or more individuals who blame someone or something else for their failings. I’ve about had it with this type of person. Man up, take control of your own destiny, and act like the type of individual you ought to be -- and not the sniveling child who thinks things are never his/her fault.

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