You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes

“You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.” Thus spoke Mark Victor Hansen, the sage of self-creation, teaching that the power to shape one’s fate lies not in stars nor in circumstance, but in the mind and the will. These words carry the flame of ancient wisdom — the eternal truth that each soul is both sculptor and stone, both dreamer and doer. To live fully is to realize that destiny is not written for us, but by us.

From the dawn of time, the wise have whispered of this power. The Greeks called it daemon, the inner guiding spirit. The Romans named it genius, the creative force dwelling within every man and woman. In the East, the mystics taught that thought is the seed of reality — that what we dwell upon, we become. Hansen’s words are but the modern echo of this timeless song: as you think, so you live; as you believe, so you become. To master thought is to command the first element of creation, for before every empire, invention, or act of love, there was first an idea — a dream made visible through the fire of determination.

To record your dreams and goals on paper is not a mere act of planning — it is a sacred ritual. The ancients carved their visions into stone; today, we inscribe them upon the page. In that moment of writing, something unseen stirs — intention becomes incarnation. The dream takes shape, the invisible begins to move toward form. Each word written with purpose becomes a seed cast into the soil of the universe. The act itself is an agreement with destiny: “I will not wait for life to happen; I will create the life I seek.”

Consider the story of Thomas Edison, the man who brought light into the modern world. He was not gifted wealth, nor certainty, but he possessed a mind that refused to surrender. He kept journals — volumes filled with sketches, notes, and dreams. In those pages lay the blueprint of a thousand inventions. Edison failed more than a thousand times before the light bulb finally shone — yet each failure was merely a step toward fulfillment. He once said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Like Hansen’s teaching, Edison knew that the pen and the mind, united in purpose, could shape reality itself.

To put your future in good hands — your own is to rise above the illusions of fate and luck. Many wander through life as if carried by the winds of chance, blaming misfortune for what they have not achieved. But the awakened soul understands: every thought is a choice, every choice a brushstroke upon the canvas of destiny. No king, no storm, no circumstance can enslave the one who has mastered their mind and set their heart upon a purpose. Such a person walks with quiet power, for they have become both navigator and vessel upon the sea of life.

Yet with this truth comes responsibility. To control one’s destiny is not to demand ease, but to embrace the discipline of creation. The mind must be guarded as a sacred temple. What you think, you feed; what you feed, you become. Therefore, fill your thoughts with hope, courage, and clarity. Write your goals not as wishes, but as promises. Each morning, look upon your written dreams and ask: What step will I take today toward them? For vision without action is illusion; but vision with action is transformation.

Let this, then, be your lesson: the future is not found — it is forged. Take up your pen as the ancients took up their swords. Inscribe your purpose, nurture it with action, and protect it from the shadows of doubt. When fear whispers that your dream is too great, remember that the ocean began as a single drop. The same power that shaped mountains and stars dwells within you, waiting only for your command.

And when the years have passed, and you look upon the life you have built, may you say with pride and peace: I was not the servant of destiny, but its author. For as Mark Victor Hansen reminds us, your fate has always rested in the best of hands — your own.