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 1Week 2 Day 15: Cut Out One Recurring Expense Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all…
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 words taken from our own…
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 a kick-start for 2020. I…
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 over the course of the…
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 the four-foot tower NFL quarterback…
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 having profound effects on our…
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 soul must be happy and…
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 anonymously. When we are kind,…
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 saying is true: "The more…
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 outstanding tasks, the more anxiety…