Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Discipline is doing it anyway. You're tired, you're busy. Looks like it's going to rain. Be easier to stay home.

It's not going to be fun. It's not a big deal. It's the perfect excuse. Unless, of course,

you're disciplined because that's what discipline is. It's doing it anyway. Just that you do the right

thing, Marx Realis writes in meditations, the rest doesn't matter.

Cold or warm, tired or well-rested, despised or honored.

That's what makes the virtue, indeed any virtue, but especially discipline, so impressive.

When the person does it anyway, does what they need to do anyway, even when it's going to be

rough, even though it might not make a big difference, even though no one will notice.

And we're all capable of this self-discipline.

You just have to choose to do it, right?

You have to decide that right now things are going to be different and that this is the

time you're going to stop waiting for life to change and take control. I don't know how your new

year has gone so far. Mine's been a little disrupted. It was a little crazy. Basically,

we were sick for like the first two and a half

weeks of the year. So some of my plans, some my resolutions, got thrown sideways. Maybe it went

like that for you. Maybe you came back late from a trip. Maybe this was actually the crazy,

busiest time of the year for you. And only now are things just slowing down. But we decided, as a result,

I needed this as much for myself as you guys did, we're going to do another go of the Daily

Stoic New Year, New Year, New You challenge. Right? We did it all as a group for the first 21 days

of the year, but some of us fell off, some of us got interrupted. Life got in the way, right?

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