No fate

"There is no fate, but that which we create for ourselves." - The Terminator

In the first Terminator movie from 1984, Sarah Connor (played by Linda Hamilton) carves the words 'NO FATE' into a wooden bench with a giant bowie knife.

For those of us who are old enough to remember, the whole point of the movie revolved around Sarah Connor's quest to change the future. The Terminator may have been sold at the time as science fiction, but there is nothing imaginary about the underlying philosophy on which the story was based.

Because the future is not predetermined. There is no such thing as fate. We all have the agency to shape the future as we would prefer to have it.

By making specific choices today, the future is created. Choices are literally the building blocks of tomorrow. Whatever we choose carries with it consequences, and whether we acknowledge it or not, those consequences are of our own making.

The greatest untapped asset that is hiding in plane sight is that the future is always open to design. It can be whatever we choose it to be.

If how you are seeing the future play out is not to your liking, you can shape it to be otherwise. You are fully capable to make other choices today to steer the future in a different direction.

There is no fate, but that which we create for ourselves.