Hello everyone and welcome to a new month!!!It is the month of June and the year is already half way gone! Our time is going and our lives are also going with it. How would you want to end your year??

Today I want us to reflect on the need for women to learn to take 100% responsibility for their lives and happiness. I always get taken aback when I speak with women ( both married and single) and I hear things like, my husband will decide, let me speak to my mom about it, I need to call my dad to hear what he thinks, let me run it by my elder sister, etc.

The reason we have been given a brain is to develop it by reading, and stretch it by thinking, research and taking decisions. There is absolutely nothing wrong with seeking a second opinion, but if you call yourself an adult, you should be one who should be held responsible for the decisions and outcome of our lives. And the only way you can do this is to understand that your life is 100% yours. If you want to make that life productive, the onus rests on you to go in search of knowledge that would make your life beautiful and enjoyable. It is your life, not the life of another. Do not leave your decision making, your joy or happiness to a second person irrespective of what you call that person. Do you know why? The reason is obvious, someday that person would die and you will be left all by yourself to do those same things which you left for someone else to do for you, especially the thinking aspect of your life. Why then did I receive a brain, if I have to borrow another’s brain to live my own life??

I live in a country where a woman is almost not allowed to think for herself, if it is not the parents thinking for her and making decisions for her, it is the husband who should do that and I think that is so wrong.

Dear woman, please take charge of your life, take charge of your mind, go and read books to develop your mind and make the right decisions that would make you a more productive person, because that second person who you have sold your mind to, may have limited knowledge to guide you to your place of peace.

Welcome to a new month!!