500 You Can't Control: For Those Who Overthink and Try to Control Everything

By Diana Lee

We spend too much of our lives worrying about things we were never able to control in the first place. Other people's reactions. Emotions - ours and theirs. Nature, timing, outcomes, misunderstandings, change.

500 You Can't Control is a straightforward, grounding book built around one simple idea: showing, through 500 real-life examples, how much of what we stress about is actually beyond our control. Each example highlights a situation many people struggle with, not to offer solutions, but to offer relief - the relief that comes from realizing you can finally stop carrying what was never yours to manage.

This book does not teach strategies or techniques. It does not try to fix you. Instead, it gently shifts perspective by naming the uncontrollable moments of everyday life, helping you recognize them, accept them, and let them go. By seeing these situations clearly, readers are invited to worry less, blame themselves less, and stop exhausting themselves with impossible expectations.

Written for anyone who feels overwhelmed by responsibility, pressure, or constant overthinking, this book serves as a reminder that peace often comes not from doing more, but from releasing what you cannot influence. When you stop trying to control the uncontrollable, space opens up - for calm, for clarity, and for living with a little more ease.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GL1HBPC8
• ISBN13: 9798246506752
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"