☀️ Stoic Morning Minute: Control What You Can

You have power over your mind

Author

Jon High
February 11, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

💭 Modern Translation

Your brain's spinning worst-case scenarios again. The meeting that might bomb. The email you're waiting for. The decision that's out of your hands.

Here's the plot twist: The stress isn't from uncertainty - it's from trying to control the uncontrollable. Even Marcus Aurelius, running the entire Roman Empire, couldn't control most of what happened to him.

What if uncertainty isn't your enemy, but your GPS to peace?

⚡️ Your Move:

Take your biggest current worry and ask two questions:

1. "Can I directly control this?" (Like, actually control it, not influence or wish really hard) 2. "What's one tiny thing I CAN control about this situation?"

Then do that one tiny thing. Right now. That's it.

(Warning: This is addictively effective.)

Until tomorrow,

Jon