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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 journal philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com.

You have to be willing to change. We've been this way for a while. We're set in our ways. We've always had a short fuse. We've been sad about our childhood. We've always had trouble with our eating.

We've never been much good at being faithful. Maybe you've had a mean streak. Maybe you're too timid. Maybe you don't like to try very hard. Maybe you don't think you're good enough.

How's that working out for you? Why keep going down a road that leads nowhere?

Marcus really talks about how crazy it is that we just go on staying the same person we've always been.

How we just keep being mauled and degraded by the life we're living. And for what? It's not even pleasurable. It's not even getting us what we want.

A person who can't change, who refused to change, he said, is like those animal fighters at the games torn half to pieces covered in blood and gore, still pleading to be held over till tomorrow to be bitten and clawed again.

The definition of insanity they say is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting different results.

And there's nothing sadder than a person who can't grow, who cannot turn over a new leaf, who cannot take a leap of faith forward into the dark.

You have to be willing to change. You must change. You must get better. Not later, not eventually, but now.

Why not start 2021 by actually taking the steps to create a better life, actively step towards being the person you know you can be?

That's why we created the New Year New Year Challenge. It's a set of 21 actionable challenges presented one per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoke Philosophy.

Our goal is to help you make 2021 your best year yet. This year right in front of you can be the most important year of your life.

The one where you become your best, most creative, most centered, most self-reliant, and resilient self. You have to be willing to change. You can't be like those animals.

Mark Surrealis is talking about. Our New Year New Year Challenge is all new content guided by thousands of responses, reactions to our previous challenges, course, videos, all that.

It's a whole new challenge based on painstaking research and timeless science from all new life changing experience.

It's a challenge designed to help you stop procrastinating, learn new skills, quit harmful vices, make the men's learn from past mistakes, and have more hope for the New Year.

And so much more. Look, what are the risks of not taking control of your life of allowing another year to pass without living up to your potential?

Not changing your ways. Most of the risks aren't dire, but none of the downsides are good. Some are downright miserable. So don't let it happen this year. Not in 2021.

Not again, you have to be willing to change. Don't wait to better yourself. Stop being mauled and dragged down by the life you're living. Don't wait to demand more from yourself. Start now.

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