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Differentiate between what you can and cannot control

Differentiate between what you can and cannot control

From the course: Resilience Skills to Navigate Disruption and Uncertainty

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Differentiate between what you can and cannot control

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- Before I share with you the five practices of highly resilient people, I want to share a practice that I use daily whenever I'm facing difficult things that are outside of my control. Educator, author, and businessman, Stephen Covey, introduced "control the controllables" and how we take back our control in his book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People." Covey delineated between what we can control and what we can't. And while most of us know what's within our control and what's outside of our control, just because we know it doesn't mean we do it. I interviewed people about how they invested their time during the day, and I asked people how much of their precious resources, time, energy, and mental space they expended on things that were outside of their control versus within their control. This is going to shock you. Even though every person I talked to knew what was within their control and what wasn't, they shared with me that they only invested, are you ready for this? 38%…

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