Nigeria, July 20 -- Remember this: Your destiny does not ultimately depend on your environment or on other people. Yes, people and circumstances may influence your life, but they are not the final determining factors.

The ultimate factor that shapes your life is your decisions. Your decisions make you.

In many ways, we become what we repeatedly choose. Our decisions shape our habits, our direction, and eventually our destiny.

In fact, we all become servants, or slaves, of the decisions we make.

Think about it. Right now, where you are and what you are doing is the result of a decision you made. The fact that you are reading this message right now is because you decided to stop and pay attention to it. You could have chosen to do somet...