JEFFERIES: Everyone is focusing on 5 things they can't control - they should focus on these 10 things instead

Alex Brandon/APFBI Director James Comey listens before a meeting of the Attorney General's Organized Crime Council and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Executive Committee to discuss implementation of the President's Executive Order 13773, at the Department of Justice, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Washington.Markets have been rocked in the past year by Brexit, a surprise result in the US presidential election, investigations into Russian campaign meddling and an increasingly bellicose North Korea.

While these are important storylines to follow, investment bank Jefferies says your time and energy are better spent on more pressing issues that can directly affect your life.

"Despite all of the incredible 'noise,' it is clear that one thing has certainly happened these past 12 months," CEO Richard Handler and executive chairman Brian Friedman wrote in an email to clients Wednesday morning.

"Miraculously the sun rose each and every day and the world continued to turn."

Here are the issues a vast majority of people won't be personally involved with, says Jefferies:

Instead, the bank suggests an alternative list of things that "may have a better chance of affecting this next twelve months than the five big-picture global challenges above" (emphasis ours):

It's good advice, no matter what your career or pay grade-and comforting words in a volatile time.

"We promise that on July 2, 2018, the sun will once again rise and the world will continue to spin," says the bank.

We hope they're right.

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