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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals, and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. I hope everyone is doing good. It was actually two days ago now. I thought that maybe the timing would hit perfectly.

But two days ago I finished what will be now my fourth go round on the Daily Steal Journal. Obviously I got it. I think it came out in October of 2017. I don't remember. Anyways, this is my fourth one.

But I'm starting my fourth one. Who knows. The point is, every day I get the book and I start in the morning and I sort of reflect on the intention for the day gives you a question to ask in the evening.

I reflect on how I did or some mornings I just do the day before before I do today. But the point is journaling is a huge part of my life.

I started with a digital machine A. Then I bought this one line a day journal. And so now I use I use a blank journal the one line a day. And then I use the daily stock journal. That's my sort of 15 or so minutes of journaling every day.

And a little over a year ago I got introduced to today's guest writer Carol the inventor creator evangelist of the bullet journal. He sent me a bullet journal which I often use as my sort of my blank journal where I just write sort of freeform stuff.

And he ended up publishing the book with portfolio, which is where my books are published. He published the bullet journal method track the past order the present and design the future. It's great book debut New York Times best seller. You can also go to bullet journal.com. But the point is journaling is an essential practice in my life. It's an essential practice in writers life. It's essential practice in countless people's lives and has been throughout history.

If you read the start of journal chapter in stillness is the key. You'll see some names there. But journaling and stoicism are almost inseparable like meditations is journaling right Marcus really says meditations which translates as to himself was not intended for publication.

This was him writing to himself for himself and he's writing philosophical exercises. He's writing down quotes. He's he's doing the philosophy on the page. And so I think too many people sort of confused diaries in journals.

I think journaling is a sort of a big umbrella term for a lot of different things from logging your workouts which you talk about in today's interview to you know taking notes during a meeting towards to a commonplace book which is a collection of quotes and ideas to reflecting and recording thoughts and feelings and all of that.

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