The power is indeed yours! We all have the power to make good and bad decisions. Claiming that you weren’t given any options is simply a cop out and shrugging off our our responsibilities of our actions. It is us who decides our fate and how much effort we put into a task and no one else.
Think about any tv show, drama or movie. There’s always a character that ‘chooses’ not to tell the truth, chooses to cheat, or chooses anything that they believe won’t have consequences but sure enough later on happens to do so.
It is our power to create, produce, react and respond with what is within our control