Imagine two buckets.

On each there is a label that reads:

🪣 - Bucket #1: Things you CAN change

🪣 - Bucket #2: Things you CAN’T change

You can only choose to carry one around with you at any given moment.

Some things that always are within reach for you within bucket #1:

• Your response to the things that happen


• The story you tell yourself about what is happening or has happened


• What you choose to make / build / think about/ do


• Your next decision

Some things that always out of your reach, deep in the endless bottom of bucket #2:

• What other people think of you or your ideas


• What other people make / build / think about/do


• What the weather does


• What your favorite (or least favorite) sports team/politician/religious leader/business does


• The events of the past


• Basically everything else

When you’re focused on the things in Bucket #1 🪣, you will feel empowered, centered, (mostly) at peace, and in a state of flow and presence.

When you’re focused on the things in Bucket #2🪣, you will feel powerless, scattered, afraid, frustrated, disappointed, angry, and in a state of chaos, anxiety, and distraction.

Accepting (and yes, perhaps even embracing) the things you can’t change — and then acting accordingly — isn’t a sign of weakness.

It’s the only thing that will actually leave you feeling empowered out of that hole 🕳 you’ve found yourself stuck in.

The first step to getting out of a hole is to stop pretending you’re not in one in the first place.

The question then becomes: what are you going to do about it?

You’ve got two buckets in that hole with you.

Only one of them will help you get out of it.



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