Believing in the talents God has giving you is not pride it is Faith.
It is your triflingness that should trouble you the most as it is the underlying cause of most failures.
Success if not doing better than others but doing better than you have before.
There is calm before the storm and a clam after the storm so focus on the clams not the storms.
There will likely be troubles and problems today, so go ahead and have breakfast and then surround them with prayer and get after them.
Know yourself, prepare for you weaknesses, and then get on with your life.
Problems are not to stop you but to help lead you in the right direction.
Your circumstance may be beyond your control but your character is not.
The most common way to give up your power is to not realizing you have any.