You own your effort. You don’t own the result. Put your energy where your control actually lives.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Outcomes are a mixture of your work and a long list of things that have nothing to do with you: timing, other people, luck, whatever the room happened to need that day. Treating the result as entirely yours makes success arrogant and failure crushing, and neither reading is accurate. What genuinely belongs to you is the preparation and the attempt. That territory is smaller, and it is the one that answers to effort.

Before the next thing you are anxious about, write two lists: what is yours and what is not. Spend the week on the first one.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which outcome are you carrying that was never yours to control?

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