50 Rules for Life - Daily Stoic
50 Rules for Life - Daily Stoic#
- Focus on what you control - Epictitus
- You control how you respond to what happens, you don’t control what happens - Epictitus
- Ask yourself: Is this essential? - Marcus Areilius
- Meditate on your Mortality - Marcus Areilius
- Value time more than money and possessions - Senecus
- You are a product of your habits - Epictitus
- You have the power to have no opinion - if you didn’t know it existed you don’t need to have an opinion - Epictitus
- Own the morning - Have a good day have a good morning, Have a good life have a good day - Marcus Aurelius
- Put the day up for review - Senecus
- Don’t suffer imagined troubles - Senecus
- Try to see the good in people - Marcus Aurelius
- Never be overheard complaining…even to yourself - complaints are for losers they solve nothing - Marcus Aureilius
- Two ears, one mouth for a reason - Zeno (Listen more than you talk)
- There is always something you can do - some progress - Zeno
- Don’t compare yourself with others - Aurelius (Focus on something you can’t control)
- Live as if you have died and come back to life - Senecus
- The best revenge is not to be like that - Aurelius
- Be strict with yourself and lenient with others - self discipline
- Put every impression to the test - initial reaction and impressions - test them
- Learn something from Everyone - Emerson
- Focus on process not the outcomes - Effort and process is something you can control. Outcome is external.
- Define what success means to you - do not care about external opinions more than your own
- Find a way to love everything that happens - Amor Fati - Embrace it - everything thrown on a fire becomes fuel
- Seek out challenges
- Don’t follow the mob - think for yourself
- Grab the smooth handle - Epictitus - choose the response that empowers you than makes you happy - not the one that makes you angry
- Every person / situation is an opportunity for kindness - never pass up an opportunity
- Say no (a lot) - marcus aurelius - is this essential?
- Don’t be afraid to ask for help - Marcus Aurelius - get a comrade to help you - so what. Asking for help is refusing to give up.
- Finding one thing everyday - to be wise - 1 thing at a time
- Whats bad for the hive is bad for the bee - Marcus Aurelius
- Don’t judge other people - Seneca (Scrubbing off your flaws - leave other people to their own mistakes)
- Study the lives of the greats - Seneca
- Forgive, forgive, forgive - a gift you give to yourself - let go
- Make a little progress each day - Zeno
- Journal - Meditations - Conversation with himself
- Prepare for lifes innevatible setbacks - Seneca - Be ready - don’t worry?
- Look for the poetry in ordinary things - observations - beauty in the mundane
- To do wrong to one is to do wrong to yourself - we are all connected
- Always choose “alive time” - live this moment or waste time - every moment must matter
- Associate only with people that make you better - you become like your friends
- If someone offends you, realise you are complicit in taking offence - how you respond
- Fate behaves as she pleases - understand it is not in your control
- Possessions are yours only in trust - you can only lose what you have - attachments
- Don’t make your problems worse by remoaning them - do not make yourself a hinderance to yourself - it poisons the room and atmosphere
- Accept success without arrogance, handle failure with indifference - none of them change who you are - be resilient, strong and humble in failure and success. Be the even keel.
- Courage. Temperance. Justice. Wisdom. - 4 virtues of stocism. No situation that does not demand these virtues.
- The obstacle is the way - there is always something you can do - grow and learn from it. Open an opportunity.
- Ego is the enemy - arrogance always makes things worse. Be willing to learn. Don’t be above or below anyone or anything.
- Stillness is the key - the secret to charging ahead is slowing down. Focus and see things clearly.
Be your philosophy - live it.