Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

It's a timeless problem, rich or poor, old or young, married or single, successful or struggling, modern or ancient.

What people do is we accumulate stuff.

We accumulate, accumulate, accumulate until our homes, our cars, our minds, and our schedules

are cluttered.

In meditations, Marx Realist jokes about people whose abundance leaves their

owner with no place to shit. And that's just the physical stuff. People also accumulate problems

and grudges and anxieties and opinions, piles and piles and piles of them. Our mental load grows

and grows and builds slowly until we feel overwhelmed,

stuck, and weighed down. And there is only one way out, ruthlessly decluttering. We have to

eliminate, eliminate, eliminate. We have to get rid of stuff, get rid of our baggage, let go of beliefs,

let go of worries, let go of people. We have to stop buying and stop saying yes. We must free

ourselves from the weight of excess. Shed what's unnecessary and clear away what is holding us

down.

So I told you I was at this Airbnb here in Maui on this trip we took and, oh man, the

mattresses were not good.

I did not sleep well. The kids did not sleep well. I wish that they

had helix mattresses. If you've ever slept on a helix, you will know why so many people love them.

Basically, you take this helix sleep quiz that matches you with the perfect mattress based on your

personal preferences and sleep needs. We've got the midnight mattress at our house. It's,

you know, medium firmness, not too firm, not too soft. And that's probably why it is their top

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