Become less dependent on conditions you cannot influence.

Conditions you cannot influence make unreliable foundations. One employer, one market, one person’s approval, one set of circumstances holding steady. The more your life rests on those, the more of your stability is really someone else’s decision.

Identify the biggest uninfluenceable thing your life currently rests on. Then build one small piece of independence from it. You will not remove the dependence, and reducing it changes how the whole thing feels.