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The Daily Stoic

Now Is The Time For Structure

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Society & Culture, 694393, Stoicism, Ryan Holiday, Business, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Stoic, Stoic Philosophy, Education, Daily Stoic

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

"Maybe right now you’re stuck at home, maybe you’re not working. Your kids might be home with you. Certainly the normal way of doing things has been significantly altered. Well, now is the time to follow the Stoic practices more than ever." Find out what kind of practices you should incorporate into your life in today's Daily Stoic podcast.

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0:00.0

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.

0:13.6

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.

0:23.3

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 DailyStoke.com.

0:36.3

Now is the time for structure. When things are chaotic and crazy, when the world can feel like it's falling apart, this is when we need to create structure.

0:45.3

Eisenhower famously said that freedom was properly defined as the opportunity for self-discipline. And so it is with disorder. It's an opportunity to create order.

0:56.3

Maybe right now you're stuck at home. Maybe you're not working. Your kids might be home with you. Certainly the normal way of doing things has been significantly altered.

1:05.3

Well, now is the time to follow the stoic practices more than ever to follow the kinds of routines that Marcus Aurelius followed every day, where the practice that Senica followed with his evening journaling, get up early, be deliberate, exercise, set up and stick to a diet, create limits in order, clean your house, attack problems or projects that have piled up.

1:26.3

Marcus said that we must concentrate like a Roman. There is no time to do that like the present. There's not a lot of good that can come out of a global pandemic, but one positive can be that we used it as an opportunity to get our act together to adjust and fine tune our habits while we had the time.

1:43.3

More importantly, one of the best ways to cure anxiety, to deal with stress and to become present is to really throw yourself into some means, self improvement.

1:52.3

Don't allow yourself to be crushed by life as a whole, Marcus said, start with what's in front of you, create some order today, focus on your habits. You'll find it does wonders.

2:04.3

And I strongly urge you to check out our daily stoic habits for success, habits for happiness challenge. It's six weeks, which might get you all the way through this quarantine of great emails, insights and exercises from the stoics about creating foundational habits that will make you feel better.

2:22.3

Like you happier, more resilient, healthier and of course, more successful. And you can check that out right now at dailystoic.com slash habits.

2:39.3

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2:51.3

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3:08.3

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3:18.3

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3:28.3

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3:40.3

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