Andy Stumpf

influence, which is very small, and your sphere of concern, which for most people, to include myself, is very large.

So if it was the size of this table, that would be your concern.

The influence would be the size of a pin drop on the table.

And the exercise is actually really simple.

Take a standard piece of paper, draw a line down the middle, concern on one side, influence on the other, and you just take the time to write down the things that are occupying your waking hours.

I don't know if you're anything like me,

I try not to set an alarm unless I have something really pressing that day.

But if I do wake up and my brain does a revolution, I have to get out of bed because otherwise I'm staring at the ceiling in the bedroom.

And if I have really sticky things in the morning,

I'll usually do this about once a month or once every six months now, but almost every time that thought will be on the left-hand side of the calm.

It's just a concern.

Why is it preventing me from going back to sleep?

Why can't I let go of it?

And it's social media, the world that we all live in.

It's things you can't control.

It's just all the stuff that you spend your energy and effort focusing on.

And then you go to the other side of that paper, and I'm still yet to find –

more than one thing that you can write down.

And that's the direct influence that you have.

And all you really can write on that is yourself.