Things might not be great right now.
There are many versions of very tough situations.
We can’t control what we’re born into. We don’t have much control over our earliest years. And we often don’t have a lot of influence over things that others do.
Control is a fickle thing.
Here are things we can control.
We can control our very next move.
We can control how much time we spend on the couch when we need to be doing something else.
We can control how many skills we teach ourselves that make us more valuable.
We can control how we choose to show others we care for them.
We can control what food we consume, and we can control the information we consume, too.
We can control our very next moves, and we can control how big our goals are and what they look like.
Don’t give up.
Things may be bleak. Things might seem dark. You may feel stuck.
But things aren’t over.
Plot your next move, move, and do it again.
Don’t give up.
—
Photo: Flickr/Gemma Stiles
—
Earth, Water, Sky: YESSSSSSSS!!!! 3 Men, 3 Adventures, 3 Stories. Now on The Good Men Project
Produced in proud partnership with the United States Air Force
Sky High and Freefalling | Rock Climbing and the Rush of Falling | The Water Is My Home | The Hardest Part of a Triathlon: The First Step |
This sounds kind of trivial but actually it is anything but. It’s an extremely condensed version of Stoicism. Well worth exploring for any man (or women) who feels s/he is being yanked around by the nipples and going crazy because of it. The basic idea is that the only thing we can really control is our own mind. Not Trump, not the wife/husband, not the world “out there”. Not how other people think, not what other people feel, and not what other people do. If we try to control what is outside, we’re making a huge mistakes. At least that’s… Read more »