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"Control the Controllables"

As you control what is within your reach, the thoughts in your head will become clearer, as your head is able to hit the pillow a little softer each night.

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"Control the Controllables"
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Every day is a struggle getting out of bed. Every day you're wondering something: What's for breakfast? When is this class going to be over? How many more days until break? What am I going to do this weekend? How will I get all of this work done? What even is sleep?

You're that college student. Our brains never catch a break. They are constantly working to keep up with our busy lives and clustered minds: late nights to bed falling asleep with something on your mind and waking up with something on your mind.

Especially at the college age as you're learning more about who you are and what you want in life, you come to terms that there are a lot of things you are curious about in life. You wonder why you can't have control over what you wish you could have control over.

You cannot control the amount of work and pressure a teacher or professor or coach puts on you, but you can control your mindset in going about that work and you can control your level of commitment. You cannot control the rain, but you can control whether you are holding up an umbrella or dancing in it. You cannot control when you will find a boyfriend or girlfriend, but you can control being thankful for who you have in your life and the friends you can lean on. You cannot control people's actions, but you can control your own. You cannot control how every day in life will go, but you can control setting goals you want to achieve each day and getting out of your bed to go work towards achieving them.


"CONTROL THE CONTROLLABLES."


My coach told me this just a few weeks ago, and now I have it envisioned in the back of my head and think about it all of the time. There are so many things that happen in our life that we don't know why they happen and want so badly to know: "What did I do wrong to not be 'good enough'?" Or wondering why such things happen to the nicest of people. We will never know. Every day you get some answers and every day you raise more questions. That's the inevitable beauty of life. What's even more beautiful is how you rise above: get another large coffee and keep standing tall.

You have more control than you think. It all starts with tenaciously pushing through the extraneous thoughts in your mind to find the ones you put in there on your own. You know what you value and you know you are valuable; you just need to believe in it. As you control what is within your reach, the thoughts in your head will become clearer, as your head is able to hit the pillow a little softer each night.



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