Five things I could do without (and five things I couldn't)

Identify your priorities before your backs are against the wall.

You don’t need me to tell you how unstable the world feels.

We can try our best to focus on the things we can control, we can keep our heads down and stick with our plans, and we can dissociate into our coping mechanisms of choice. We can do all the things (I am doing all the things). But no matter what we do, it may not insulate us from the adverse fina…