For some years now, I’ve been a student of stoic
philosophy. The biggest lesson from this philosophy is to focus on
what you can control rather than things you cannot. It’s often
difficult to do and one can easily forget to apply this.
Most of the time, all you have control over is your
actions and the outcome is not within your control. Focusing on the
outcome—especially when it causes stress—can really drain a lot of
your energy. Energy that you could use on the part you can control
which is your actions.
I recently found myself doing exactly this.
Focusing nearly 100% of my attention on the outcome and not on the
actions required to achieve the outcome I wanted. The result was me
performing below my own standards since a lot of energy was
diverted.
The moment I realized I was doing this and
redirected my focus on the controllables, my stress levels went way
down. Do you find yourself focused on the outcomes rather than the
actions you need to take to achieve what you want?
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