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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

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 at DailyStoic.com.

A new year is a new opportunity. We are what our choices make us. Do we walk the 15 minutes to work or do we take an Uber?

Hit the snooze button or get up early? Do we have the difficult conversation or hide from it? Is good enough? Really? Good enough?

Will you resolve to be better this year or just stay the same? It's your choice and what you choose is who you are. The Stoke's believed that a beautiful life was the result of beautiful decisions.

They also believed that the only way to freedom to strength to wisdom was through continual effort. Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, Epictetus said, but by working on yourself daily.

The question for you then today, and really for this upcoming year as well, comes down to one word, when? To quote Epictetus again, how much longer are you going to wait to demand the best of and for yourself?

Because life is short, the time is now and gains are cumulative. The sooner you start, the sooner you'll see results and the further you'll end up going.

For the last two years at DailyStoic, we've been doing what we call challenges. And on January 1st, we're starting again with a new challenge for the new year and for a new you.

We're calling it the DailyStoic New Year New You Challenge and it's designed to help you do exactly what Epictetus was talking about and what we have spent so much time talking about in these emails, taking action on becoming the person you know you're capable of being.

It would be easy to let December bleed into January to let 2020 meander and stultified just as you did with 2019, but that's not what stoicism is about. That's not what you want to be about.

Instead, you must seize the moment you must seek out challenges. As Epictetus said, we must undergo a hard winter's training so that we can be ready for whatever life throws it up.

A resolution is not that. A resolution is just words. It's hope dressed up as a plan. If you want to train, you'll need a training regimen and you can't just pin your goals on a wing and a prayer.

You need a guide that you can follow to reach your desired outcome. And that's what this 21 day stoic challenge will do will help you create a better life and reshape a new you here at the start of a new decade that is set to reshape the world.

The daily stoic new year new you challenge is 21 actionable challenges presented one per day built around the best most timeless wisdom and stoic philosophy.

It's 21 challenges designed to set up potentially life changing habits for 2020 and beyond that will help you become the kind of person you know you're capable of being the kind that can handle any of the uncertainty and difficulty and opportunity that the next year and the next decade are sure to throw it us.

This challenge each day you'll be inspired in a new area of your life. We're going to help you stop procrastinating learn new skills abandoned harmful habits be more generous develop immunity to distractions strengthen your character and become the best version of yourself.

I always ask people what would getting rid of one bad have it be worth what would adding one new positive have it be worth what would you give to be a positive person what would you do to be part of a community that held you accountable and helped you make the progress you know you want to make well here's your chance you can sign up at daily stoic calm slash challenge I will be doing the challenge right there alongside you it's going to be awesome they're delivered each morning there's a video for me there's a principle 20.

There's a principle 21 day calendar there's a slack channel for accountability and community let's do it and look if you've got a friend who's always planning a never acting you can give it as a gift as well again daily stoic calm slash challenge will do this together and will make this be a new year for a new you a new decade and a new you for that as well good luck and I'll see you there daily stoic calm slash challenge.

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