Yesterday plays back only. Next week hasn’t finished editing. This minute right here is the one scene where you’re holding the camera.

The past is fixed and the future is speculation, which leaves one place where your choices have any purchase. Most worry lives in the other two, replaying what cannot be altered or rehearsing what has not arrived. It feels like effort and produces nothing, because neither place accepts input.

When your head goes forward or back, name where it went and ask what is in front of you now. Do the next small thing rather than the whole imagined sequence. Attention only works in the present, and it is the tool you actually have.