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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.

If you want to feel better, do this. You're frustrated, you're scared, you have a million things you have to do. Happiness, hell, even not just feeling bad, seems a million miles away.

What do you do? Is there some secret that can give you peace and pleasure? The ones who crave so much? Yes, there is, and it's simple. Stop thinking of yourself, start thinking of others.

Eleanor Roosevelt said the surest way to happiness was to seek it for others. She was referring to doing good to being of service. It's how she found happiness despite the tragic loss of her father and her painful childhood.

It's how she got through a troubled marriage and her husband's affairs. It's how she endured the depression and the wars and so much else. She did good. She made herself useful. She sought relief for others.

Sennaka said that each person presents us an opportunity to do kindness. They also therefore present us the opportunity to find happiness. Remember Stockdale as a POW tapping out US in code to his fellow prisoners unity over self.

Remember Marcus Aurelius, the fruit of this life is works for the common good. So if you want to feel better, if you want to find a bright spot in this dark landscape of uncertainty and fear, the solution is simple. Do good, help others be of service.

Think less of your problems, try to help others with theirs. You'll be amazed at the happiness this brings to you and to them.

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