Control - or the lack of it?

I have forever been a student of life, and the emotions that it brings. So many of them are out of our control, sometimes even the emotions that it elicits from our being. Why do I feel the way that I feel when someone gets a promotion instead of me? Why do I feel the way that I feel when someone buys a house that I cannot afford? What is in my control and what is not? Is my health in my control?

Is it possible to practice the separation of what you can and cannot control? Work hard on the things that you can control, and appreciate the things that you cannot control and wave to it as it passes you by.

I can control my own work, and appreciate the feedback that I am receiving from the community to improve myself. I can control how I spend my days and my hours, and how to make myself better at each of my jobs and roles in life. I can control how disciplined I am in my life, and how I continue to study discipline even on days when I am on the fringes of it and looking at it as an illusive concept so far from reach. I can control how I respect my body with the food and with the activity that I make it do. I can control the kind words that I say to people - some that I know and love, and others who are strangers that are passing me by. I can control how I can make people feel loved and valued by simple kind words of appreciation. I can control being honest and transparent with people - while being respectful and honoring their self.

There is so much that I can control, and yet, sometimes we surrender and worry about the things that we cannot control.

If you can control it, think about it, and change it. If you cannot control it, then why think about it?

So what is it that you control and cannot control? What are you doing about both of these aspects of your life?