What do you think you’re in control of? 

What’s not in your control? 

Where do you decide to draw the line?

“You are afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control,” Elizabeth Gilbert writes (via Oliver Burkeman). “But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.”

When you can clearly accept what’s actually in your control—and distinguish those from whatever your anxiety desperately wants to believe is in your control, but really isn’t—that you can start to make progress. Fine tuning your taste for this is always a valuable task.