S4E1: You've Got Two Buckets
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Imagine two buckets.
On each there is a label that reads:
🪣 - Bucket #1: Things you CAN change
🪣 - Bucket #2: Things you CAN’T change
You can only choose to carry one around with you at any given moment.
Some things that always are within reach for you within bucket #1:
- Your response to the things that happen
- The story you tell yourself about what is happening or has happened
- What you choose to make / build / think about/ do
- Your next decision
Some things that always out of your reach, deep in the endless bottom of bucket #2:
- What other people think of you or your ideas
- What other people make / build / think about/do
- What the weather does
- What your favorite (or least favorite) sports team/politician/religious leader/business does
- The events of the past
- Basically everything else
When you’re focused on the things in Bucket #1 🪣, you will feel empowered, centered, (mostly) at peace, and in a state of flow and presence.
When you’re focused on the things in Bucket #2🪣, you will feel powerless, scattered, afraid, frustrated, disappointed, angry, and in a state of chaos, anxiety, and distraction.
Accepting (and yes, perhaps even embracing) the things you can’t change — and then acting accordingly — isn’t a sign of weakness.
It’s the only thing that will actually leave you feeling empowered out of that hole 🕳 you’ve found yourself stuck in.
The first step to getting out of a hole is to stop pretending you’re not in one in the first place.
The question then becomes: what are you going to do about it?
You’ve got two buckets in that hole with you.
Only one of them will help you get out of it.
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