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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 the 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 DailyStoke.com.

How much longer are you going to do this? We all have vices. We all have flaws. We all have things we know we want to change.

What happens? Nothing happens. This is true for everyone. Even Martin Luther King, one day King said,

we all tell ourselves this. I'm going to rise up and drive this evil out and know it is wrong. It is destroying my character and embarrassing my family.

But then he says, at last the day came and you made a New Year's resolution that you would get rid of the whole base evil.

And then the next year came around and you were doing the same old evil thing. Can you remember the surprise and disappointment that gripped you when you discovered that?

After all that you had done through your resolutions to get rid of it, the old evil was still there.

And of amazement you found yourself asking, why could I not cast it out?

Seneca reminds us that fools all have one thing in common. They are always getting ready to start. They are always getting ready to change.

And then, and then, and then they never do.

Rooting evil out of your life takes work. Same with losing five pounds, quitting smoking, breaking the smartphone addiction, drinking less, reading more.

But as King said, the nature of evil is only simple in theory. Neither a bull nor a noble spirited man comes to be what he is all at once.

I picked the one that's told in your student, you must undertake a hard winter training, you must do the work, you must stop delaying, you must get started.

Today, right now, a New Year is upon you. Is there a better time than now? No, there is not. Let's go, not tomorrow as Marcus warns, but today.

Look, for the last three years we've been doing this thing, the Daily Stoic New Year, New Year Challenge.

21 actionable challenges presented one per day built around the most timeless stoic wisdom.

21 challenges designed to help you do exactly what King and Epipetus were talking about, rising up, driving out the bad and taking action, become the person you want to become.

I'm really excited, this is the last absolute last day you can sign up for it. I want you to, at the end of it, look at yourself and be like, I can't believe I did that, I drove that bad habit out, I replaced it with this new better habit.

I've looked at what I've managed to do the last three years on this challenge, I'm so proud of myself. It's been awesome to hear from all the different people who have had the same.

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