Restlessness

the mind that won't sit still

The mind keeps starting things it won't finish, jumping before you've landed. Don't fight it for now — walk four short steps with these lines, set down by people who knew a mind that wouldn't hold still.

A restless mind feels too quick and slippery to do anything with. The oldest answer isn't to force it quiet — it reaches instead for a craftsman's patience, someone who knows a thing is only fixed by hand:
Just as an arrow-maker carefully straightens each shaft, a wise person patiently straightens their own wandering, restless mind, even though it fights back at every turn.Dhp 33
That work is worth the patience, because of what a steadied mind turns out to be made of:
Taming your mind is worthwhile, even though it's wild, slippery, and goes wherever it wants. A settled mind is the root of genuine happiness.Dhp 35
And this steadying is something you do, not something that happens to you. The text sets you beside the people who shape the world to their will — and then turns to a harder, quieter mastery:
Those who manage water channel the rivers; fletchers straighten the arrow shaft; carpenters shape the wood; and the wise shape themselves.Dhp 80
It won't come all at once, and it isn't meant to. Stay with the plain steady work, and notice where it arrives:
Wise people who practice consistently, patient, steady, committed, arrive at deep peace. Not through dramatic breakthroughs, but through showing up every day.Dhp 23

You came in with a mind that wouldn't settle. You don't have to wrestle it still right now — you can let this be the first quiet minute, and trust that the rest is just more of the same patient work.