Don’t Take Control, Take Charge

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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1:06.6	Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight and wisdom every day life.
1:15.6	Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women.
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1:26.6	www.dotitcontrol.com
1:43.6	Doe Tick Control, take charge.
1:46.6	In her page a day book, Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much, the writer Anne Wilson Sheff makes a distinction that the Stoics would have certainly agreed with.
1:57.6	There is a difference she writes between trying to control everything in your life and taking charge of your life.
2:05.6	Trying to control our lives puts us in a position of failure before we start, she writes, and causes endless and unnecessary pain and suffering.
2:16.6	Taking charge of our lives means owning our lives and having respond ability to our lives.
2:25.6	Respond ability is a great word and one we should add to our vocabulary today. The same goes for the distinction between taking charge and taking control.
2:36.6	As the Stoics try to teach us only a fool thinks they can control fortune or prevent bad things from occurring through worry or endless work.
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