The Daily Stoic - It’s About Crossing One Thing Off After Another

Episode Date: October 19, 2020

"One thing addicts trying to get sober quickly discover is just how resilient their addiction is. They quit booze and suddenly find themselves smoking a lot more pot. They quit pot, but now issues are popping up with eating or with sex. Or they get rid of all those bad habits, and realize for the first time that they have a temper or a procrastination issue or terrible anxiety."Ryan talks about the mindset you need to deal with your worst habits on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.Sign up for Daily Stoic's Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness course: http://dailystoic.com/habits***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. It's about crossing one thing off after another. One thing addicts trying to get sober quickly discover is how resilient their addiction is. They quit booze and suddenly find themselves smoking a lot more pot. They quit pot, but now issues are popping up with eating or with sex, or they get rid of all those bad habits and realize for the first time that they have a terrible

temper or a procrastination issue or terrible anxiety. The point is, for every action, there is a reaction. The energy of one bad habit once removed, emerges in the form of another. Those of us who are not addicts can certainly relate to this as well. The road to progress is rarely as straight as we'd like it to be for every two steps forward.

We take one back or end up on some detour, we never anticipated. But that's what this philosophy is about. Remember, Senica said that each day we should ask ourselves what bad habit we've curbed, what thing we've stopped. Maybe 24 hours is not the right form of measurement for you. Maybe it's a monthly thing or a yearly thing. If you live to be old, hey, maybe you'll have finally gotten rid of most of your bad habits and bad impulses, but the point is you have to keep going. Don't despair, keep chugging away. We assemble our lives action by action. Marcus Aurelia said, no one can stop us

from that. Cross one thing off after another, take one step after another. You're making progress, you're getting better. The idea of habits of setting one foundational habit up after another, that's the core idea in our challenge, habits for success, habits for happiness, it's six weeks of really great stoch inspired research-backed ideas from the smartest people on habit formation, habit breaking, systems, organization, all that kind of stuff. These are habits I try to use in my life. These are habits that have made it possible for me to write this email every single day.

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