>>58519516>YOU are 100% responsible for the way you experience lifeEasily proven wrong.
>it is by far the hardest thing you'll ever doIt's hard because it means brainwashing yourself into believing something so obviously false. It's like attempting to believe in flying pink elephants just because you think it would improve your life somehow.
The rest of your post is solid advice, but the premise is beyond deluded. You are NOT in command. Believing in that fiction may be a comfortable fantasy, but it is entirely wrong. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that acceptance of the fact that you have very limited control over your own life is an important step on the road to happiness. Shit happens. All you can do is do your best and hope it works out. (But accept that it might not.)