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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.

It's about crossing one thing off after another. One thing addicts trying to get sober quickly discover is how resilient their addiction is. They quit booze and suddenly find themselves smoking a lot more pot.

They quit pot, but now issues are popping up with eating or with sex, or they get rid of all those bad habits and realize for the first time that they have a terrible temper or a procrastination issue or terrible anxiety.

The point is for every action, there is a reaction. The energy of one bad habit once removed emerges in the form of another. Those of us who are not addicts can certainly relate to this as well.

The road to progress is rarely as straight as we'd like it to be for every two steps forward. We take one back or end up on some detour we never anticipated.

But that's what this philosophy is about. Remember, Seneca said that each day we should ask ourselves what bad habit we've curbed, what thing we've stopped.

Maybe 24 hours is not the right form of measurement for you. Maybe it's a monthly thing or a yearly thing. If you live to be old, hey, maybe you'll have finally gotten rid of most of your bad habits and bad impulses.

But the point is you have to keep going. Don't despair. Keep chugging away. We assemble our lives action by action. Marcus really has said no one can stop us from that.

Cross one thing off after another. Take one step after another. You're making progress. You're getting better.

The idea of habits of setting one foundational habit up after another. That's the core idea in our challenge. Habits for success, habits for happiness.

It's six weeks of really great stoke inspired research backed ideas from the smartest people on habit formation, habit breaking, systems, organization, all that kind of stuff.

These are habits I try to use in my life. These are habits that have made it possible for me to write this email every single day.

So anyways, check that out. Habits for success, habits for happiness with all sorts of people go through it in the last year. So they've really loved it. I think you will to check it out at dailystoke.com slash habits.

And of course, remember, if you sign up for daily stoke life, you get not only that course for free, but all of our different courses and challenges and we'd love to have you.

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