I am capable of creating my life exactly as I want it to be.

Someone moved the mugs to the cupboard above the kettle, and the kitchen was better for the next four years. It took an afternoon. Nobody had done it before because the mugs had always lived somewhere else.

Most of a life is arranged the way it is because of decisions no one remembers making — where the money goes, who gets Sunday, which drawer holds the important letters. Whatever else is out of reach, the arrangement is yours to alter, and alterations compound faster than people expect.