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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.

Here is a pleasure you can have any time. The Stoics did not reject pleasure. They just rejected the dangerous ones, the ephemeral ones. They were not afraid of joy. They just wanted to earn it.

Epicetus loved to quote Socrates, just as one delights in improving his farm and another his horse, so I delight in attending to my own improvement day by day.

Delight, not a word you'd expect from Epicetus, but there it is. And to be found in such an unexpected way, not in material things, not in a hobby, but in oneself, in improving oneself.

We can imagine Marcus Arelius actually having fun while writing his meditations because he was attending to his own development.

The same goes for Seneca as he did his crazy philosophical practices, whether it was diving into a freezing fountain at the beginning of the new year or living frugally to prepare himself for changes.

Cater took real pleasure in challenging himself, walking barefoot and bareheaded to sleeping on the ground with his soldiers, in dressing simply and working hard.

And so can you, we can become our own hobby. We can become our own source of satisfaction. The economy determines what we can do professionally, but no one can stop us from working on ourselves personally.

No more can anyone or anything take away the pleasure we earn by getting better day to day.

And by the way, this is one of the reasons we've set up our new year new you challenge, which starts in just a few days.

Now's your chance to commit to attending to your own improvement in 2020, and to experience the joy and the rewards that will come out of challenging yourself.

Check it out at dailystoic.com slash challenge, but January 1st is the cutoff. I'll see you there and we will delight together in our own improvement.

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