Don’t be a prisoner of your own mind. Confinement is challenging. Yes, it’s tough. But it can lead to incredible insight. What you do with your time speaks volumes. Focus on negative things, and you become those thoughts. Focus on the positive, and you materialize that. You reap what you sow. Truer than Paul Pierce in the ’08 Finals.

Prison isolates you. Generally speaking, it becomes punishment. But that’s only possible if you allow your mind to be ensnared by what’s surrounding you, rather than what you surround your environment with. Your mind is free. Free to focus on what you see fit.

Think about all the bad, how a certain move can set you back, and you’ll be a guest in that house of mental charades. Or focus your attention on those things that uplift your spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, discipline. All these things lead to life. A life worth living. Free from the chains of bondage.

Prison isn’t a place. It’s a mindset we allow that will eventually destroy us. Fix your focus. Set the price for something higher than what you can see. Challenge yourself to look past the distractions and all the noise. Be better than your circumstance. It was never meant to be easy. But it’s possible.

No one dreams of being isolated in a cell of withering dreams. So don’t allow yourself to become that person. It’s a battle of attrition. And the people with free minds will win.