As I stand looking in the mirror, reflecting on my life and all the wrong choices that have led me to this point, my tired and weary reflection reminds me of one vital thing.
“I am the biggest problem in my life.”
We often look at our unfulfilled life and blame the world, family, friends, racism, broken systems, or bad luck. While all these are real problems, the most consistent force in your life is you. 
Until we acknowledge and accept that everything begins and ends with us, we will always be the biggest obstacle in our own lives.
I am slowly learning life lessons that I wish my pride, and ego had allowed me to learn in my youth.
Anything we are not trying to change, we accept to occur in our lives.
The truth is not always readily accepted, but it is essential to bring about positive changes in our lives. 
This book is about confronting that truth and rising beyond it.
Hopefully, after reading it with an open mind and heart, you will be able to grasp and accept that an uncomfortable truth is always preferable to a lie that soothes our fragile egos.