How Is It Worthwhile to Adjust Our Mindset/Headspace/Psyche Selves?

It’s worthwhile because it’s the only thing we can genuinely control.

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Ever find yourself thinking about something utterly outside of your control?

I don’t just mean a random, passing thought. What I’m on about is giving deep, analytical thought towards something over which you have zero control.

For example — politics. Apart from voting, protests, phone calls and letters to our representatives — there’s nothing we can do. When it comes to the world stage, there’s even less that we can do.

Similarly — celebrity gossip. The weather. How and why our friends made choices we cannot understand — but we still endlessly question and mull over.

Chewing on these thoughts and digging into them doesn’t serve us. Why? Because they are not in our control.

The truth is that there’s very little we truly, genuinely control. What’s more, we’re frequently presented with examples of “control” on the parts of politicians, religious leaders, business moguls, and the like. The vast majority of any arguments they make are all about the things they believe that they can control.

Control, however, doesn’t need to go beyond ourselves. In fact, it can’t. The…