In/out of control
#Thinking
My mentor asked me a simple question when I was catching up with her: What’s in your control, and what’s not?
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I’ve touched on this topic before, while talking about stoicism and what we can control. That was February of this year, which seems both like a short time and a lifetime ago. I had a pretty pithy line to summarize then:
Things happen, and the only thing we can control is how we respond to them.
Well, turns out, in life, things do happen.
With work, what is it that I can control? What is it that I struggle with accepting that I can’t control?
I can’t control:
The (types of) clients the team engages with
Other people’s actions, reactions, and decisions
Whether people would participate in one thing, and not another
How others perceive me
What I can:
How I react to these things happening
How I respond — a slight nuanced difference from the first thing, which is more in the moment
How much action I take, or do not take
The mindfulness I take towards my actions
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