Work out where your energy is actually worth spending

Use this one-page tool to work through what’s bothering you. The stuff that’s truly out of your hands, the things you can influence, and those you fully control. Once it’s on paper, most people are surprised by how much has been sitting in that middle pile unnoticed and by how short the list of things they can’t influence is.

It takes ten minutes and a pen. You sort what's draining you into three columns, then use a set of straight questions to challenge the sort, because we're all a bit too quick to file things under "nothing I can do". Sometimes with that honest second look you spot an opportunity you hadn't seen. Sometimes it gives you permission to put something down.

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