Have you hit your good years yet?

I like this quote from Dan Galvin's Thought For The Day mailing list:

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
-Albert Ellis (1913 - 2007)


Dr. Ellis sounds like an interesting guy. From the New York Times' obituary of Dr. Ellis:

----------
Where the Freudians maintained that a painstaking exploration of childhood experience was critical to understanding neurosis and curing it, Dr. Ellis believed in short-term therapy that called on patients to focus on what was happening in their lives at the moment and to take immediate action to change their behavior. “Neurosis,” he said, was “just a high-class word for whining.”
“The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you to feel better,” he said in a 2004 article in The New York Times. “But you don’t get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.”
----------


----------
Technorati tags: life