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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. Or 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.

Welcome to Ask Daily Stoke, where we answer your Stoke-inspired questions.

The first question we've got today are what are five habits that can improve my life?

So I got a couple for you. So number one, I would say wake up early, right?

Mark has really opened book five of the meditations of talking about waking up early, about getting out from under the covers.

You don't accomplish great things laying in bed. You've got to get up early.

And I like to get up early because that's where the stillness is. There's fewer interruptions.

You know, it's just great. I think the next thing from the Stoke should be journaling, right?

Are you sitting down and spending some time putting pen or pencil to paper and preparing or reviewing or reflecting on what lies ahead,

on what you did recently, on just things you want to improve or get better.

Marcus Aurelius' meditations is the way that he gets to where he gets at the end of his life.

That's how he accumulates wisdom. He's writing down these lessons, these observations.

He's following Epic Titus' advice, which is to keep these ideas and words around you all the time

and to be sort of engaging with them on a deep and active level.

The other I would say is like go for a walk every morning when I get up, I go for a long walk.

This morning I went about three and a half miles. My son didn't take the phone, got up early, was outside, was active.

You know, Santa can talk about, he's like, look, a mind over stress is easily fractured.

He says you have to take long, long during walks.

And there is a reason almost every philosopher is an active walker.

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