Where should I focus my energy?

I love this visualisation of the circle of influence, where you have three circles. There is this large bubble of things which are happening to you. Then there’s a smaller bubble, which are the things I can indirectly influence. For example, I don't know, I can ask you to stand up but I cannot control you. I can ask you to do it. So I have a certain influence, for example. And then there are the things I don't know, I can influence directly, like taking off my glasses. That could be something which I can influence directly.

The thing is, if you are talking about or spending a lot of time on the pandemic, and wondering and complaining about the pandemic, your influence is just decreasing constantly because you're not spending your time and your mind on things which you actually have an influence on. Which decreases your influence because the time you spend on things you can influence is just reduced. And it's the other way around, the more time you spend on things you actually have an impact on, the bigger growth you influence because you see that you have more impact on those things. You actually want to change.