Two weeks ago I wrote the newsletter Keeping Our Wits About Us in a Complicated World. At the end I asked, “If you have habits and tools that help you stay your best in the face of life’s challenges, I’d love to hear them, and will share them in a future newsletter.” This is that newsletter!

If this hasn’t happened to you personally, I’m sure you know family and friends who have experienced it. You go in for a regular checkup—for instance a mammogram—and you don’t think twice about it until the phone rings, and you’re told they’ve found something “suspicious” and you need to go back for more testing.

I’ve been thinking about the worries of the modern world this weekend, and how we can manage our day-to-day lives with hope, love and joy in the face of them.