The Daily Stoic - A New You For a New Year

Episode Date: December 24, 2023

It’s kind of crazy to think how recent December 2019 feels. Not that long ago, it seems, we were getting ready for what a new decade might bring us. It’s even crazier when the truth settles in: 2019 was FOUR years ago. We are almost half way into that “new” decade.So much has changed. So much has happened. But at the same time, so little has changed. We’re still struggling with the same things. The aspirations we had back in 2019—this was the year we were going to turn a new leaf, lose weight, start that big project, learn a new language, work on our temper—are still there, that potential still waiting to be realized.Our New Year New You Challenge is all-new content, guided by thousands of responses and reactions to our previous challenges, courses, videos, and emails. It’s a whole new challenge based on painstaking research and timeless science, for an all-new, life changing experience.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance, and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers, we explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, and most importantly, to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

A new you for a new year. It's kind of crazy to think about how recent December 2019 feels. Not that long ago, it seems like we were getting ready for what a new decade might bring us. And it's even crazier when the truth settles in that 2019 was four years ago. We're almost halfway into that new decade. So much has changed, so much has happened. But at the same time, so little has changed. We're still struggling with the same things. The aspirations we had back in 2019, this is the year we were going to turn over a new leaf, lose weight, start the big project, learn a new language work on our temper, it's still there. That potential

is still waiting to be realized. To that end, the great Stoic Epictetus has the perfect question for us. How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? How much time are we going to let escape us? Hopefully, not much longer. The main thing is that we stop expecting this to simply happen. In one of the best passages in Mark's Realises Meditations, Mark's Realises tells himself to stop hoping and be his own savior while he can. And it's great advice. It's the advice to follow here as we stand on the precipice of a new year, 2024.

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