You can’t rush the tide by yelling at it. Some things move on a schedule you don’t control.

A lot of frustration comes from arguing with timing. Replies, healing, somebody else’s readiness, the bruise, the growth spurt: none of them speed up because you are angry, and the energy you spend being furious was the one resource you could have used elsewhere. Accepting a schedule is not approving of it. It just stops you fighting a clock.

Make two lists this week: what you can affect and what runs on its own time. Put your work into the first. For the second, decide what you will do while waiting, since the waiting happens either way.