My to-do list can touch the floor if I wanted it to. I can think of 10 things off of the top of my head that I really should get done today. I bet you can too. Being busy isn’t hard. We are all usually busier than we would like to be. But is being busy the way we are supposed to live our lives? Most of the time we associate being busy with being ambitious, driven, and goal-oriented. It can also be associated with being rude, rushed, short, or overwhelmed. What makes the diffe

Control—we all want it. We want control over our lives, our bank account, other people, circumstances, and our hardships. We feel that if we have enough control that our lives can be free of all worries, trials, change, and unpleasant surprises. But it’s this very quest for control that can make us lose all sense of our control. So what do we do? We focus on the only control we can ever fully claim—control over ourselves. My whole life I have felt like I was in a power strugg