[A lesson from The Academy] Often, the only difference between a problem being painful or being powerful is the sense that we choose it.  That we are responsible for it.   If you’re unhappy in your current situation, chances are it’s because you feel like some part of it IS outside your control - that there is a problem you have no ability to solve, a problem that was somehow thrust upon you without your choosing.   So how do we make the shift to empowerment? How do we choose our problems? Well….that’s the catch. You already are.  Whether you like it or not, whether you are aware of it or not, you are taking an active role in what’s happening TO you, and what’s happening WITHIN you.  You see we are always choosing the values within which we live, and the metrics that we use to measure everything that happens to us in terms of success or failure -  and everything in between.