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 control
"Energy goes where attention flows"
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