What is really happening right now and what can I do about it?
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
We don’t want to feel the anxiety that might arise if we were to ask ourselves whether we’re on the right path, or what ideas about ourselves it could be time to give up.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
We can’t control what life throws our way, but we can control how we react to it. As we do, maybe we come closer to a meaningful life than any plan could ever take us. To do this, though, we have to let go of what we think we deserve and embrace what is, which just might lead to something better than we ever could have imagined.
Jeff Goins • The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
For people who are very self-reliant/high-agency, allowing the feeling of helplessness is one of the most powerful pathways to feeling supported and not alone in your problems.
My definition of helplessness: Experiencing that there's nothing you can do to change the outcome.
Joe Hudsonx.com• feel powerless, with no sense of choice?