Ampersand Answers: Affecting the World

The Question: 

How do I have an effect upon my world?

&mpersand Answers: 

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world.
Holly Black, author and editor
MEInk 12.31.25

And herein lies one of the greatest secrets of life, one which few know, and fewer practice, but most would say to which they subscribe whole-heartedly. 

FREE WILL. 

Ask anyone. Most people will tell you, having been raised in a social structure based upon Judeo-Christianity that of course I have free will. 

Ah, but do you use it? Do you even know how to use it? Have you ever had any instruction or even conversation on how to use it? 

Most of us haven’t, and, as a result, live based on what I call Free Won’t—using their will on what they don’t want, not what they do want. 

First, free will only works on what you do want, and never, ever in reverse.
Second, you have to use it, exercise it, get clear about it, speak it.
Third, you get to keep using it until you get what you want or you change what you want. 

It’s kind of like a muscle. Say, a calf muscle. You have to use it or … and I know the saying is, lose it, but that’s not accurate. What you lose isn’t the muscle. It’s the potential of the muscle. Same with will. 

Using your free will is a ticket, Belovèd, to a victimless life experience.  

Think on these things.