A voice came across as a thin, tinny voice into the Apollo 13 Mission Control Center located in Houston, Texas in the '60's after a fire broke out in the small capsule.

"Houston, we may have a problem."

The fire was quickly contained in the cramped compartment but did devastating damage to many of the systems necessary to control, navigation and life support.

However, the story has a happy ending. With a clear realization of the reality they were operating in, the astronauts and the ground crew with Intention, Grit and Awareness applied creative solutions to what might have seemed an impossible problem, dooming the crew to an inevitable fate.

They had a problem but they did not operate in a world of certainty. They had choices. It was hard, it was scary and it had a large amount of uncertainty but they did not give up.

The astronauts survived and because of the team's actions, the Apollo program continued and marched forward over programs and generations to a place where we are today. All because of a series of decisions.

Our society's check engine light is on. It's a warning and a diagnostic notification. The engine hasn't frozen or thrown a rod. Nor has it yet lost it's power. Sure, it is running rough but it can be repaired.

And that just begins by paying attention to what each of us, as individuals can do.

― Leo Tolstoy

This article was prior to my hit and run accident. A few weeks before. I was already working on the migration from where I used to be to where I belonged. This isn’t a physical place per se, but physicality does come into play as things begin to change.

It might be going new places, doing new things or even flat out changing your latitude entirely. You never know, so don’t give it too much importance and just follow the flow. Anyway, the change happens first inside of you.

As a choice. Once you chose to make the shift and head in a new direction, things outside begin to change. Slowly. The physical real your realities exist in (yes, realities).

The current and the possible) is like cold maple syrup. Thick and resistant to movement. But, it does move if you keep ‘pouring the syrup’.

You just have to focus or visualize the change and build the new habits within yourself that drive it all. You have the choice and you have the power. No one has any greater power over you to shift how you chose to come into your reality and deal with it or change it than you do.

Remember that.

Don’t give your power away. And, don’t believe the perceptions you encounter or the false realities that are served up or sold to you by others. Often, they are nothing more than a mirage.

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The whole experience has shifted my thinking and how I view the world around me, and what choices I make differently.

In this piece, I share some of the thoughts and decisions that I am experiencing and making in the hopes that it might inspire you to think differently, look at your life differently or perhaps even make a few new small but consequential changes…starting today.