What Are You A Slave To? | Stake Your Claim
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🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Dwight Eisenhower gave himself the order.
Quit smoking.
It had become a 4-pack-a-day habit. It had been part of his life for nearly 40 years. It was comfortable. It was more than a habit, it was an addiction. His health hung in the balance, his doctor said, his ability to serve at risk. So, after nearly four decades of smoking, he made the decision to quit, cold turkey.
“The only way to stop is to stop,” Eisenhower would tell an aide, “and I stopped.”
This story is in Discipline is Destiny. It's also the basis of one of the best days in the upcoming 2024 Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge. Because the Stoics were big on the idea of quitting cold turkey, of quitting anything that has a pull over us. “No man is free who is not master of himself,” Epictetus tells us.
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And with today's meditation on the day's Daily Journal excerpt, Ryan reminds us to take charge and stake your own claim, that the ones who pioneered this wisdom are not our masters but our guide. And For the last five years, we have been doing what we call the Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge—a set of 21 actionable challenges, presented one per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy. 21 challenges designed to set you up to be able to say, whatever happens in 2024 and beyond, this is precisely what I trained for.. Demand more of yourself in 2024. Prepare for whatever is ahead. Head over todailystoic.com/challengeand sign up NOW!
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