You Can Create Your Own Future (By Brian Tracy)

The management guru Peter Drucker wrote, "The very best way to predict the future is to create it." Everyone wants to be happy, healthy, popular, prosperous, and successful in whatever they do, but the only way for you to achieve and enjoy all that is that is possible for is to create your own future. And the good news is there have never been more opportunities, in more different areas, for you to fulfill you dreams and goals than there are today. Your chief aim in life should be to take full advantage of everything that your world had to offer.
There are basically two types of people in our world, the active and the passive. Only about 10% are proactive, and although they are very much in the minority they are the movers and shakers in every area. They are the people who take their lives into their own hand and make things happen. They accept complete responsibility for themselves and the results of their actions. They dare to go forward in the face of risk and uncertainty. When you decide to create your own future, you join this vital minority. You begin to push to the front of the line in your own life.
The majority of people tend to be passive in their responses and reactions to life, constantly wishing and hoping that something good will happen to them. They buy lottery tickets, watch television endlessly, and complain about their situations. They resent successful people, but they are not willing to make the efforts that others have made to achieve what they have achieved. They live their lives like people waiting for a bus on a street where no buses go.