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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's an important power that you have. The ask is just an ask, you know. Whether they're asking you to pass the salt or asking you for a hundred thousand dollar loan, whether they're asking you what you weigh or if you can come in and work on Sunday, the ask is just the ask.

We decide that it's offensive or presumptuous or rude. That's what epictetus was saying when he observed that it's not events that upset us but our judgment about events.

The request is objective, just words coming out of someone's mouth. The opinion that it's objectionable is just that, your opinion.

We have to remember that we hold this power. We don't need to get upset. We don't need to be taken apart. We just need to realize that all someone has done is utter some words at us and that we are free to ignore them, grant the quest or politely explain why we're not interested.

Epictetus said that when we get offended, when we get upset and think how dare they or wow, that's a huge imposition they are trying to foist on me. We are complicit. We have chosen to be upset. We have chosen to hear and read the request that way.

We could have just let it go. We could have seen it for what it was simply an ask and moved on. We have that power. We choose whether we exercise it or not.

Hey everyone, obviously you're listening to this podcast. You've probably read our Daily Stoke book. Maybe you get our Daily Stoke emails. If you wanted to take some Daily Stoke wisdom with you to the office for your kitchen counter, well we've made a Daily Stoke page a day calendar. It's starting with the year 2020.

It doesn't take a profit to guess that 2020 is going to be a crazy year. It's an election year in the US, start of a new decade. And I think we could all use a little guidance in the year to come.

And so this Daily Calendar features quotes that match that page in the Daily Stoke each day. So these are our original translations of Mark's Relius, Santa, Epictetus and many others.

Each month has the same theme as the book and each day has a quote and a theme as well. And I think this will help you live your best life throughout the year. You can check out the calendar in the Daily Stoke store DailyStoke.com slash store 2020 starting soon. And this is the only place you can get this awesome calendar.

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