Daily Stoic

The Daily Stoic for December 2nd, “Don’t Mind Me, I’m Only Dying”. “Let each thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 2.11.1 “What would you do if you found out tomorrow that you had cancer?” That’

The Daily Stoic for December 1st, “Pretend Today Is The End”. “Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. . . . The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each

The Daily Stoic for November 30th, “Follow The Logos”. “The person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act—they are at once both cheerful and self-composed.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 10.12b The logos. The stoics believed there was a powerful force governing

The Daily Stoic for November 29th, “You Are Going To Be Ok”. “Don’t lament this and don’t get agitated.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.43 Have you ever gone to bed thinking that there was something wrong? Nothing concrete that you can identify in your mind. But there it

The Daily Stoic for November 28th, “It’s Not On Them, It’s On You”. “If someone is slipping up, kindly correct them and point out what they missed. But if you can’t, blame yourself—or no one.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 10.4 “A good teacher knows that when

The Daily Stoic for November 27th, “The Pleasure Of Tuning Out The Negative”. “How satisfying it is to dismiss and block out any upsetting or foreign impression, and immediately to have peace in all things.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.2 I don’t read newspapers anymore. I mean, not only