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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.

Blame yourself or no one. The causes of things are complicated and rarely do they go how we'd like them to go.

So it's easy to point the finger at other people at unfair conditions, the weather, at the advice we got. If it hadn't been for blank out of one, why did so and so have to get involved like that? It's all blanks, fault.

And yet the causes of things are also quite simple, at least according to the Stoics. Because to them, the fault always lies with us. We're the one who chose to listen to that advice, they'd say.

We're the one who left the outcome up to chance, who didn't plan for all the contingencies. We're the one whose expectations set us up to be disappointed.

Marcus Aurelius' rule was, blame yourself or blame no one. It's the other side of the idea we were talking about not long ago that the only place to look for approval is within yourself.

The same goes for disapproval and fault finding. As soon as you try to get it from other people, you've compromised your integrity, you've handed over your power.

So either don't blame anyone or blame yourself for whatever happens, for everything that happens. Those are your only options.

You know, I always ask people what would getting rid of one bad habit be worth or what would add in one new positive habit be worth? What would you give to be the person you know you're capable of being?

Well, that's why for this new year we've made a daily stoke, new year, new you challenge that's going to help you do just that.

It's 21 custom challenges delivered each morning. There's a video from me. There's a printable 21 day calendar. There's a group Slack channel. It's going to be awesome. I'm doing the challenge alongside everyone. This year we can do it together. We can talk together. We can make ourselves be better.

You can check it out at dailystoke.com slash challenge.

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Entrepreneur Phil Knight started a company called Blue Ribbon Sports on the strength of what he called a crazy idea that American joggers needed better running shoes and that they pay top dollar to get them.

Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondering Show business movers. We tell the true stories of business leaders who risked it all, the critical moments that define their journey and the ideas that transform the way we live our lives.

In our latest series, Phil Knight sets out to build an empire by importing athletic shoes from overseas in Japan. But in 1971, a dispute with a Japanese manufacturer almost brings Blue Ribbon's growth to a screeching halt.

In this moment of crisis, Phil bets the future of his company on a big move. He creates an in-house brand and takes control of the production of his product.

Following this bold new direction, Phil ultimately creates one of the most recognizable and successful companies in the world, Nike. Follow business movers wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen and free on the Amazon music or Wondering app.

The 10% happier podcast hosted by me, Dan Harris, has one overarching message. Happiness is a skill. The mind is trainable. So why not get involved with this?

I used to be a fidgety skeptical news anchor, but after having a panic attack on national television, which was pretty inconvenient, I decided to change my life. I went on a whole trip to learn everything I could about the human brain, the human mind, the human psyche.

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