“By changing the way I think and talk about my life I believe that I have the power to create my own destiny!”
Dwayne Alvin Hearn
A definition of initiative from Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/destiny
destiny
des·ti·ny (děs’tə-nē)
n. pl. des·ti·nies
- The inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person or thing is destined; one’s lot.
- A predetermined course of events considered as something beyond human power or control: "Marriage and hanging go by destiny" (Robert Burton).
- The power or agency thought to predetermine events: Destiny brought them together.