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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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We’re set in our habits. We’re quick-tempered, we eat poorly, we’re easily distracted. We skip exercise, we put stuff off, we make excuses. How did that work out for you in 2025?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visit Dailystoic.com. You know it's time to change.
0:59.4	We've been this way for a while, set in our habits.
1:03.0	We stay quick-tempered.
1:04.4	We eat poorly.
1:05.2	We are too distracted.
1:06.2	We skip exercise.
1:07.9	Hold on to a mean streak or timidity.
1:13.1	Maybe we don't try hard enough or we think we're not good enough. How is that working out for you? Marcus Aurelius in Meditations calls it
1:19.5	madness to keep being the same person mauled and degraded by the life we don't enjoy,
1:25.2	the one that doesn't give us what we want.
1:32.1	What could this year be if you actually lived up to your potential?
1:38.5	How would some of the little changes, the ones you know you need to make, compound in years to come?
1:40.9	Let's fast forward for a minute.
1:45.4	It's now December 2026, and you're in the best shape of your life.
1:49.3	You got rid of toxic habits or relationships or emotional baggage.
1:52.5	You became the parent, the leader, the person you hoped you'd be.
1:55.8	You found more joy, ways to be more present.
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