Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you in your everyday life.

On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual

lives.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy.

Come back to the rhythm.

Archer Sirilius wasn't perfect, with so many responsibilities competing for his time

and attention he was guilty, as we all have been of letting his good habits slide.

Why else would he remind himself to keep returning to philosophy if he didn't occasionally

find himself reverting the old ways in the bad habits?

There he is in meditations, reminding himself to return to a simple diet after he caught

himself overdoing it a little, reminding himself to get up early and get a move on his

obligations, perhaps after sleeping away one to many mornings.

Of course he needed reminders to re-engage with those good habits he let slack.

All human beings do.

Despite our better judgment and best intentions, life has a nasty habit of getting in the way,

sending us on accidental hiatus from our hobbies, our good habits, and our resolutions.

Then what?

Well, some of us start to feel guilty and ashamed about it.

We tell ourselves it's proof that it's impossible that it won't work that we can't change

or grow.

We reach a point where we think we might hang it up for good and abandon it entirely.

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