CTL-VII-0001
“I'm obsessing over something I can't control.”
Some things belong to you. Most don't. When you obsess over what isn't yours to control, you spend energy that belongs elsewhere — on yourself, your choices, your next step.
Your Practice
Write two columns: what you can control about this situation, and what you cannot. Draw a line under the second column and write "not mine." Return your attention to the first column only.
The Architects
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”
— Epictetus, Epictetus, Discourses I.1 (Of the things which are in our power and not in our power), George Long translation