<p><img decoding="async" title="Pegine Echevarria motivational speaker" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/pegine_echevarria_09.jpg" alt="Pegine Echevarria motivational speaker" class="alignleft" />I&#8217;ve got the power. It is a great day when you realize that you have the power to change your life, your perceptions of the world and your willingness to decide to succeed, no matter what.</p>
<p>It is shedding the layer of thoughts, ideas and perceptions that has held you back, and, instead embracing new ideas, new thoughts and beliefs about yourself and what you can be.</p>
<p>The decision to be free and independent &#8212; to truly declare and shout from the roof tops: &#8220;I am the only one who will decide what I want for me. I am the only person who has the power to think for me and to choose what thoughts I have. I can choose who I want to be.&#8221; That is true freedom. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2009/07/independence-month-by-pegine-echevarria/" title="Permanent Link: Independence Month By Pegine Echevarria" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":96,"date":"2009-07-15T22:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T03:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/07\/independence-month-by-pegine-echevarria\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T03:23:22","slug":"independence-month-by-pegine-echevarria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/07\/independence-month-by-pegine-echevarria\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Month By Pegine Echevarria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pegine Echevarria motivational speaker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/pegine_echevarria_09.jpg\" alt=\"Pegine Echevarria motivational speaker\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I&#8217;ve got the power. It is a great day when you realize that you have the power to change your life, your perceptions of the world and your willingness to decide to succeed, no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>It is shedding the layer of thoughts, ideas and perceptions that has held you back, and, instead embracing new ideas, new thoughts and beliefs about yourself and what you can be.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to be free and independent &#8212; to truly declare and shout from the roof tops: &#8220;I am the only one who will decide what I want for me. I am the only person who has the power to think for me and to choose what thoughts I have. I can choose who I want to be.&#8221; That is true freedom. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/07\/independence-month-by-pegine-echevarria\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Independence Month By Pegine Echevarria\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}