Focus on What You Can Control

The Daily Writer · Jan 7, 2021 · 3m

You were having a perfectly good streak. Things were going well with your writing, and you were making great progress with your book, blog, client work, or something else you were working on. But then it happened. Maybe it was family drama. Maybe it was a work situation. Maybe an appliance or a car broke down. Or maybe there was political or social chaos that made it hard to focus. Whatever it was, it was an outside force that made it harder for you to get your writing done. What should you do? How should you respond? Here is a great example from the history books. The 2nd century Roman…