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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.

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What is your anxiety cost in you? You worry, you get stressed, you want to get there early, you want it to go well, you don't want anything bad to happen to your loved ones.

It's you to anyone in the tunnel vision of your anxiety. These are all the things that you can think about. They consume you, they change you, they overwhelm you.

But can you right now in the calm of morning when you are not anxious, take a minute to step back, think about what your anxiety costs you, think about it honestly and painfully, think of the arguments it's created, think of the dead time it left you with at the airport, think of the things it made you say no to, the things that might have been so much fun.

Think of the reputation it gave you, think of the damage it has done to your relationships, to your self confidence, to your ability to enjoy life.

One of the most wonderful passages in meditations is where Marcus Aurelius looks at his own troubles with worry and fear and says, today I escaped my anxiety or rather I discarded it for it is within me.

Your anxiety is within you, worse it is eating at you and harming you. It does not make your life better. No, it comes at the expense of life, which is why we must, especially can let it go, not let it control us, not let it take from us the things that we can never get back.

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It's 12 days of stoic inspired exercises to help you manage the stress and anxiety, not just that's going on in the world right now with this pandemic, but I think for all time, these are real strategies you can build into your life that have helped some of the greats of history, manage, I think times and situations that are even more stressful than what we're in right now.

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