I have the power to change my life.

Trace something good in your life backwards. Nearly always it narrows to one unremarkable act: a message sent, a room walked into, a yes given slightly against your instincts. Nobody experiences that moment as power. It feels like an ordinary afternoon.

Which is worth knowing on a day when changing your life sounds impossibly large. Lives don't get changed at the scale of lives. They get changed at the scale of a decision that takes four minutes and looks like nothing from outside. You are probably one of those four-minute decisions away from something, and you likely already know which one it is.