What Do I Have to Do with It? And Why Me?, 7

What is you problem, right now? Whatever it is, only you know. But whatever it is, it traces back to the basics reported here.
On one side, only you know which precarious branch you’re sitting on; on the other side, whatever the branch, the roots of the tree are here. Therefore, no one but you can see both sides and thus trace the link back from your own personal branch to the common roots. And this is the case with whatever branch.

If you look at things from the point of view that you can be cause or effect, a first point is that the more one is cause the more one is likely to make things go right, and the more one is effect the more one is likely to make things go down the pan: stay behind the wheel, and you get through; let go of it, and you crash.
A second point is that thought is the requisite of action: you won’t do a given thing unless you consider you can do it and you’re going to. Thus no one will ever be more cause than one considers one can be.
A third point is that thought not only is the requisite of action, but it also affects it, and thus its outcome, too: given equal physical shape, the force applied by the optimist is greater than that of the pessimist, and so are his chances to get through.
Therefore it’s not a matter of assessing how much cause one can actually be, it’s a matter of assuming the most useful viewpoint available: totally cause.
In other words, to avoid any risk of clipping one’s own wings, one’d better assume the viewpoint of being personally, boundlessly, totally cause. Who cares how much it’s true: it’s functional, useful.
This way, one avoids any risk of missing anything one could have achieved due to considering it out of reach from the start. If one is to have a chance, that’s indispensable; after all, life already provides enough barriers without us siding with them against ourselves, isn’t it?