Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Almost every worry contains two things fused together: the part you can act on and the part that will do whatever it does. While they stay fused, your effort leaks into places it cannot reach, and you finish the day tired with nothing moved. Pulling them apart is not resignation. It is aim.

Take whatever is sitting on you today and split it into two columns on paper. Do the first thing in the column you control, however small. Then practise letting the other column be, without pretending you do not mind.