A New You For a New Year
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
It’s kind of crazy to think how recent December 2019 feels. Not that long ago, it seems, we were getting ready for what a new decade might bring us. It’s even crazier when the truth settles in: 2019 was FOUR years ago. We are almost half way into that “new” decade.
So much has changed. So much has happened. But at the same time, so little has changed. We’re still struggling with the same things. The aspirations we had back in 2019—this was the year we were going to turn a new leaf, lose weight, start that big project, learn a new language, work on our temper—are still there, that potential still waiting to be realized.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. |
| 0:10.0 | Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, |
| 0:14.8 | something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, |
| 0:20.0 | temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:21.6 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. |
| 0:26.4 | We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the |
| 0:36.8 | challenging issues of our time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more |
| 0:41.5 | space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:44.4 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, |
| 0:48.5 | to sit with your journal, and most importantly, |
| 0:50.9 | to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:57.3 | A new you for a new year. |
| 0:59.6 | It's kind of crazy to think about how recent December 2019 feels. Not that long ago, it seems like we were getting ready for what a new decade might bring us. |
| 1:09.0 | And it's even crazier when the truth settles in that 2019 was four years ago. We're almost halfway into that new |
| 1:16.7 | decade. So much has changed, so much has happened, but at the same time so little has changed. |
| 1:21.1 | We're still struggling with the same things. The aspirations we had back in |
| 1:25.2 | 2019, this is the year we were going to turn over a new leaf, lose weight, start the big project, |
| 1:30.0 | learn a new language work on our temper. It's still there. That potential is still waiting to be realized. |
| 1:35.9 | To that end, the great Stoic Epictetus has the perfect question for us. |
| 1:40.0 | How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? |
| 1:44.0 | How much time are we going to let escape us? |
| 1:48.0 | Hopefully not much longer. |
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