Self-responsibility horizon

Kind of like the circumference of a circle, the boundary between those areas of life in which one feels capable, able and empowered and those other areas in which one feels incapable, unable or disempowered. This self-construed horizon determines whether the power in one’s life lies with one’s self (inside the horizon) or with someone or something else (outside or ‘over’ the horizon) relative to a given experience.

See: Power, Victim.