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Today's Daily Inspiration is inspired from the card entitled "Victim" in The Oh Cards deck.

Marie T. Russell's Daily Inspiration

The focus for today is:  I am responsible for my own choices.

A stance that keeps us stuck in the past is playing the victim. The traits that we embrace when we choose to play victim are not only rigid, they are disempowering.

After all, a victim is one who has handed over or relinquished the power over their lives to someone else. A victim remains stuck in past events and current powerlessness. Whether it is done consciously or not, choosing to be a victim is choosing to be weak and to relinquish any control over our lives.

The path to flexibility and freedom lies in self-empowerment, and one cannot be a victim and empowered at the same time. Victims are powerless, or at least they think they are. But our power resides in our deciding to no longer be a victim of others, or of circumstances, or even of our own thoughts and beliefs. Choosing to claim our power and acknowledge that we are responsible for our own choices and our life is the way out of victimhood and into being our true empowered self. 

Today's Focus was excerpted from the InnerSelf.com article:

From Rigidity to Change
by Marie T. Russell

Read the original article here.

This is Marie T. Russell, publisher of InnerSelf, wishing you a day of acknowledging your power (today and every day)

Join me again tomorrow for the Daily Inspiration and focus of the day.

Today, we acknowledge that we are responsible for our own choices.

Today's Daily Inspiration is inspired from:

The Oh Cards
by E. Raman

From educators and artists to therapists and trainers, thousands of practitioners are using the OH Cards. There are 88 picture cards and 88 word cards - place a picture on a word and an inner story begins to unfold. These decks are designed to increase intuition, imagination, insight and inner vision. With 88 pictures and 88 words, there are 7,744 possible combinations.

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About The Author

Marie T. Russell is the founder of InnerSelf Magazine (founded 1985). She also produced and hosted a weekly South Florida radio broadcast, Inner Power, from 1992-1995 which focused on themes such as self-esteem, personal growth, and well-being. Her articles focus on transformation and reconnecting with our own inner source of joy and creativity.

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