You’re starting a project or a new exercise plan, and it’s in shaky new territory for you. You feel doubt about whether you can do it, so you’re tensely doing everything you can to make sure it will turn out the way that you hope. The stress, fear, doubt, and tension you feel likely come from an attachment to how things will turn out. For example, we want to lose weight and get fit through exercise or be brilliant at our new project and have everyone think that we’re wonderful. But perhaps we could acknowledge these truths. The outcome isn’t always fully in our control. Sometimes other people get in the way or unintentionally sabotage a project. Sometimes things happen that we didn’t expect. Sometimes, despite our best efforts, things just turn out differently than we pictured in our heads. The weather might turn, or we might come down with …