It’s time to get real and admit that there are certain things that are beyond your control. Stop hitting your head against that brick wall and tell yourself you can try again at a later date when things are more in your favor. Today, just get a fix on what you can accomplish and ignore the rest. In a way, you’ll be giving yourself a road map to follow, and it won’t steer you wrong. This isn’t a good day to push your luck, so hold off asking your boss for that raise.

You need to dial in to the small stuff now — it can, in fact, make a huge difference. Pay attention consciously and carefully to see things that tell you all you need to know.

You can’t look at your relationship like it’s an algebra problem. Solving for variable X just doesn’t work when, frankly, everything is a variable. That’s the joy (and the rub) of being in a human partnership.

Making money comes easily to you so you don’t need to bother with schemes. Others aren’t as lucky, though, and they are trying hard to rope you in. Resist their sales pitch. No matter how often they change their approach, you know the underlying message is the same.