The restless mind iz restless

One thing I need to keep in mind to mitigate my frustrations with the creative process and being published:  My road is not anyone else's road to building a career.  I can analyze things to death... wonder if my sales are holding up, wonder if people will like book three, fret about starting book four, compare my sales to a million others, worry about the new series idea I have... all these things that are outside of actually writing the damn books... but I have to remember that no matter what,