Almost hour by hour the news bombards us, one thing after another. If we just let the waves smack us again and again and again, that doesn’t do any good. It knocks us down and can paralyze us so that our lives go on around us without us participating in it at all.

Is that what you want? I don’t. I want to live as much as possible.

The way to do that is to figure out how to surf. What can you do to surf and not be smacked?

Continue to do the things that matter to you, things you enjoy. You can go about living your life while still paying attention to actions you can take so you don’t feel like an ostrich. But you don’t need to react to everything that the news reports. Be choosy.

Tell us how you’ve learned to surf.