Joshua Markle / BLOG

Don't over complicate your life

2026-10-16 · 2 MIN · NOTES

It is too easy to overcomplicate our problems in life.

You know the solutions to all of your problems. Deep down, you know the things you aren’t doing, the things you should be doing.

Ultimately, there is a series of things that are within your control and the rest is noise. If you decide to be anxious about something that is out of your control, understand that is your choice. Getting anxious over things out of your control is a good way to feel sorry for yourself.

If you take the right actions, do your best with what you got in those moments, it wouldn’t make sense to have regrets, because you did the best you could with what you had where you were at.

Nobody is omnipotent, its natural to want things to be different. Instead, be inspired to make better decisions in the future. Take great joy in learning from your mistakes or unexpected setbacks.

There will be truly unavoidable tragedies within life. That’s life. I’m not saying that you should be some machine and hate yourself because its hard to move past certain things. But you should acknowledge a respectable limit for any self inflicted pain and suffering.

Your whole perception and understanding of the world and your own life is internal. You create your own highs from achieving your goals and experiencing new things. But you also create your own lows from