Exercise #3: What's within your control vs. outside your control - Deepstash
Exercise #3: What's within your control vs. outside your control

Exercise #3: What's within your control vs. outside your control

You can draw a circle: Inside the circle there are the things within your control, and outside, the things that are outside of your control

This will help you understand if you are wasting your energy and thinking on the things you can do nothing about

Also this will remind yourself to focus more on what you can controlย 

"Energy goes where attention flows"

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