This post covers the third and final week of the Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge. Click below for the first two weeks! Week 1 Week 2 Day 15: Cut Out One Recurring Expense Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent.…
This post covers week 2 of the Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge. Click here for week 1! Day 8: Open Your Mind: Read Something by Someone You Disagree With “It is likely that you will ask me why I quote so many of Epicurus's noble words instead of…
In July I took the Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge and documented my progress here. It was an interesting experience, a challenge in discipline which I found worthwhile and rewarding. So when Daily Stoic announced their New Year New You challenge I was happy to sign up and use it as…
This is an account of day 21 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge, for accounts of other days please click here. In Theory The task for day 21 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge is to pretend you're watching your own funeral. Like some of the other tasks…
This is an account of day 20 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge, for accounts of other days please click here. In Theory The task for day 20 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge is to create a pebble jar. Part of the inspiration for this task is…
This is an account of day 19 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge, for accounts of other days please click here. In Theory The task for day 19 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge is to pick one Stoic passage to memorise. Research suggests that modern technology is…
This is an account of day 18 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge, for accounts of other days please click here. In Theory The task for day 18 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge is to laugh it out. Per Seneca, “He who laughs has joy. The very…
This is an account of day 17 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge, for accounts of other days please click here. In Theory The task for day 17 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge is to buy or make a nice gift for someone else and send it…
This is an account of day 16 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge, for accounts of other days please click here. In Theory The task for day 16 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge is to read an old newspaper. The point is to find evidence that this…
This is an account of day 15 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge, for accounts of other days please click here. In Theory The task for day 15 of the 21-Day Daily Stoic Freedom Challenge is to solve one nagging problem. The more we delay tending to problems, completing…