Waiting on news you can’t control? Control the next hour. Eat, walk, text someone. One hour at a time.

Waiting on something you cannot influence puts your attention somewhere it can do nothing. The mind keeps working the problem because working problems is what it does, and with no surface to push against the effort turns into churn. Shrinking the frame is the only reliable move. An hour is a size you can actually act on.

Decide what the next hour contains and do that: food, a walk, a message to someone, one small task. Then repeat it. You are not distracting yourself from the news, you are keeping yourself in working order until it arrives.