I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.

My thoughts are my own. The external things that happen can influence thoughts but ultimate I have control over those thoughts. I allow them to fester and affect my decisions. That happened yesterday. I felt stressed and needed relief. I did things to try and remediate that. I ended up having a midnight snack which I’ve been trying to avoid. If instead I had not allowed those thoughts of stress affect me, I may have instead gone to bed and avoided the scenario. It’s easy to say I should do that. In practice it’s a bit tougher. I am working on that mindset though of identifying when I’m in those moods and making effort to reframe the thoughts.