Control

Are you capable of:

1. exercising appropriate control over things you legitimately can control and
   
2. letting go of what is not within your control?

This is different from the prevailing conventional wisdom that it is necessary to exercise control over everything in order to reduce one's stress. Paradoxically, the conventional wisdom would lead to an inherently stressful goal, since no one ever can be in control of all variables.

Think back to the Personal Power Grid in the Letting Go portion of our major Stressors and Sustainers section.This is precisely what was cited there.