(Related to /inputs-vs-results ?)

Nervous in the queue for a rollercoaster, but once I was sat down and strapped in and came to terms with the fact that there’s essentially no getting out of the situation, the anxiety would lessen. There was no longer anything I could do to control the situation, so I’d come to a place of acceptance.

Likewise with flying.

There’s something freeing about realising you have no control over something.

In those examples it’s clearer that everything is out of your control.

But I think there are a lot of everyday life and business situations where we’ve fooled ourselves into thinking we have control, and end up creating our own stress trying to control those things.

And paradoxically can be very freeing to ‘give up’ trying to control those things that were never really in your control anyway. It’s not actually relinquishing control, it’s accepting the reality that it was never really in your control to begin with.

You can only control your inputs. Your current action.