Epictetus opens his handbook with a simple sorting: some things are up to us, and some are not. Your effort, your choices, your attention—these are yours. The weather, other people's moods, how a day turns out—these are not. So much worry comes from gripping things that were never in our hands. This morning, notice where your energy is going. If it's poured into something you cannot move, gently bring it back to what you actually can do. You don't have to fix everything. You only have to tend your own small patch well, and let the rest be what it is.

Inspired by the old idea of dichotomy of control. Written by Ugo Charles.