You can’t change the hiring process, industry environment or talent preferences, but you can control the story you communicate to your target audience.

By focusing on what you can control, accepting the inevitable, and building your emotional muscles, you cultivate a more fulfilling outlook.

Life will through wrenches into your plans and learning to control what you can and letting go of what you can't will allow you to move on and become a beyond average person.

Hopefully instead of stewing in your resentment, you take care of the things you can control and are a net positive citizen. Turn off the news, get some exercise and control what you can control.

You can’t control the stock market. But you can control your spending. With so much uncertainty, it’s hard to know what to do — and not do — in this precarious moment.

Consider what you care about With regard to ESG issues, you may or may not care from a big-picture perspective. However, activist investors can expose issues that you might not know about.

You can’t change the hiring process, industry environment or talent preferences, but you can control the story you communicate to your target audience.