Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

If you want to be great, do this. At the start of the year, we said we were going to go to the gym more. We're going to eat better.

We're going to be more present at home. We're going to read more. We're going to waste less time. We're going to finally get serious about the thing we keep saying matters. And then life got in the way. We missed a day here, another there. We had a bad week, which became two. The routine slipped. the momentum disappeared, and before long we weren't just off track, we'd given up.

And so we haven't just off track, we'd given up.

And so we haven't been who we want to be. How do we fix it? Epicetus reminds us how. He says,

every habit and ability is confirmed and strengthened by the relevant actions, the ability to walk by

walking, the ability to run by running. If you want to be a good read or read,

if you want to be a good right or write, if you wish to do something, make it habitual.

Habits are not built or rebuilt by guilt. They are not restored by grand declarations or perfect

plans. They are strengthened by doing the thing. We said this last week. Excellent, good habits, virtue. It's not a state

of being. It's a state of action. If you want to be it, you got to do it. And that's what the

habits for success, habits for happiness challenge we have for daily Stoic was built around.

It's six weeks of stoic-inspired challenges to help you build and maintain good habits,

habits that make you better, habits that make you stronger, habits that make you happier.

And we built this challenge several years ago. It's been one of the most popular things we've

ever done, but we updated it now for this moment. We wanted to keep the things that worked. We wanted to add some new ones. We added some great new tools to help you reflect and

sort of meditate on the changes you're making. There's also a great new community space because

I think habits are something best done with others. It's really awesome. We're going to start it

on July 21st. So I'd love to see it in there. We're offering a group discount if you enroll with some of your friends. And it's going to be awesome. I don't want you to think about the year is over. I don't want you to think about the person you want to become as being something out of reach. Just get after it. And you can sign up right now for the Daily Stoic

Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness Challenge and get back on track to being that person you want

to be. That's what it's all about. And you can sign up right now at dailystoic.com slash

habits.

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