Everyday I become more empowered to take control of my life.

Control is always partial, and people who cope well have made peace with which part is theirs.

Sailors don't argue with the wind. They spend their entire attention on the two or three things they can adjust — the sail, the rudder, the hour they leave harbour — and treat everything else as weather to be read rather than negotiated with.

Most frustration comes from spending effort on the wind. Take one thing currently bothering you and sort it honestly into the two piles. Whatever lands in the adjustable pile deserves all your energy. Whatever doesn't will still be there tomorrow, and it was never yours.