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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day 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.

You are blessed. It's not easy to feel blessed. We look readily for what we don't have rather than what we do.

We see people who are taller, who look better, who have more, and we feel deprived. Why couldn't I have been born rich?

Why couldn't my company have gotten that contract? Why can't I play in the NFL?

But of course, as we are feeling sorry for ourselves, we are not noticing that people who were born rich, who did get the contract, who are in the NFL, are focusing too on what they do not have.

Why is Dad never around? Why couldn't I get paid more? Why didn't I make the Pro Bowl?

Santa Cunoo, these feelings first hand, seeing as how he was born to a wealthy family, achieved great things, and yet also struggled with debilitating illnesses, with exile, with comparing himself to other, more successful people.

For all his literary fame, for all his influence in Nero's court, for the beautiful estate he owned, tended by slaves, we can imagine him feeling frustrated.

Just as we are, fantasizing about a life where things were even easier, even more rewarding. Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, he said, quoting Epicurus, is unhappy, though he may be the master of the whole world.

What a miserable way to live, and how unnecessary. Today you need to stop and look at what you have, not at what you lack.

Count where you have been lucky. Look at what has gone your way. Consider how many people would kill to be where you are, to have the life you have been given.

Unblessed is he who thinks himself unblessed. Santa Cuneminded Lucilius. It's a line from some unknown poet, but it's true. You are blessed, think it, and it will become more so. You are blessed. Don't forget it. Don't be unhappy.

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