Most people waste energy worrying about things they can't control while ignoring what they actually can. Meditation and journaling help you notice this pattern, then shift focus to the decisions and actions within your reach.
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lot of us, our awareness is kind of on autopilot. We wake up in the morning and our brain starts firing and neurons start going and we start just focusing on the same old things we always focus on. But when you meditate, when you journal, when you take time to slow down and you just become aware of your awareness, literally, that's like the key point, then you can actually start to control it. Then you realize that you're the one in the driver's seat here and your focus doesn't continue to control you and like send you down all these pathways. that you don't wanna go down, keeping you distracted all day. And a specific part of controlling your focus that I wanted to hone in on, 'cause I know a lot of people struggle with this, is focusing on what you can't control. This is really, really common. So, and this is actually a paradox, because we obsessively try to control things we have no business controlling, when we don't control the things that are our business to control. So, if you find that you're kind of overthinking everything, you're, you're like future pacing like a million steps ahead, you're trying to figure everything out beforehand, you're worrying about all these facets of the business, of your personal life that you literally cannot control, then the quick fix for that is to go, what is it that is in my control that I've been neglecting?