FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN CONTROL NOT WHAT YOU CAN'T.

Lesson: Don't waste energy on things outside your control. Focus on your own actions and reactions.

Worrying about the result is a distraction from what you really should be thinking about: how you can respond, and what happens next.

Your work leaves your hands at some point and what happens next is almost always out of your control. People either like your work of art or they don’t. 

Stoicism teaches us to identify what aspects of any situation we influence versus what we cannot change. This lets us focus our energy productively rather than frustration over the uncontrollable.

Before reacting to events, pause and reflect – can I do something about thi...