Things I needed to learn

Things I needed to learn before I could be “healthy” Part 2:

90-95% of the things that go on in the world are completely beyond my control. Spending a lot of emotional energy worrying about them is a waste because none of that energy is going to change the outcomes of those things, but it is going to make me manic. Better to expend my energy on the things I can control and can have an impact on.

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