The Daily Stoic - The Worry Part Is A Choice

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

We think if we just make enough money, someday we won’t have to worry about it anymore. We think if we just get big enough, strong enough, we won’t have to worry about being pushed around. We think if we can just get through this or that rough patch, we can relax and not be so worried anymore.Of course, it never works out that way.Does that mean worry is just a part of life? Well, no – unless you choose for it to be.✉️ 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, including the Premium Leather Edition of the Daily Stoic.📱 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.

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Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us dailystowup.com. The Worried Part is a Choice. We think if we just make enough money, someday we won't have to worry about it anymore. We think if we just get big enough strong enough, we won't have to worry about being pushed around. I think if we can just get through this or that rough patch, we can relax and not be so worried anymore. Of course,

it never works out that way. No one has ever gotten there and reported back on their worry-free life. Just as you must have noticed how this has gone with the progress you have made, you have more than you did today. How do you feel? Have all your problems disappeared? Does that mean that worry is just a part of life that stress is ever present no matter how successful or powerful we get? Well, no. Unless you choose for it to be. In Meditations, Mark's realist talks of his anxiety. He realizes that it's not coming from anything external, it's within him. It is a choice he is making. This is not to say that things cannot be made easier by money or that your lack of money isn't a problem It's that simply having and not having something is an external worry doubt anxiety stress indeed any emotion we experience in our lives is intern

We have influence over the latter not the former So let's try to solve the problem where it will actually make a difference. Let's stop lying to ourselves saying it will all be better in the future because the present isn't the problem. None of the external things are. It's our emotions that are at the root of our discomfort. They are within us. They are our responsibility to work.