# 5 practical ways to take control of your life

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDNext 2025
- Speaker: Jim VandeHei
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jim_vandehei_5_practical_ways_to_take_control_of_your_life)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

You can't control the world — but you can control you. That's the mantra that took Axios CEO Jim VandeHei, a once "unremarkably unremarkable 20-year-old," all the way to launching companies and interviewing presidents. He breaks down a career's worth of observations into five deceptively simple things you can control, and explores why mastering them can change the trajectory of your life.

## Lectures

1. [5 practical ways to take control of your life](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jim_vandehei_5_practical_ways_to_take_control_of_your_life/dc08cd65cb20), 11 min (TED's player)