I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.
In any awful situation I still have two things my thoughts and choices. I may feel the pull to make choices or outside factors may contribute to making a choice. I still control that choice I make. If I given in that is my responsibility and my choice.
I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.
I can focus on myself during hard times. During a pandemic or an difficult and frustrating time at work. I can’t control time, events, or even other people. So I will focus on myself and work to make myself better. To make myself better at dealing with frustration and stress and exhaustion.
I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.
Philosophy asks some real hard questions. Practicing it can also mean doing things that I don’t want to do. I’ve felt that when meditating. Most times I’m not in a rush. There are other times where I want to rush through meditation so I can go do the thing. This daily stoic is another example. I haven’t done a very good job this week with distracts, stress, and exhaustion.
I must train even when it’s inconvenient. For me that’s doing the daily stoic while traveling or even working out. I had a break through on my most recent trip with working out. I didn’t do the daily stoic however.
Right now work is plentiful, stressful, difficult, and exhausting. I’m succumbing to some of the effects of that. I think I need to re-frame into an idea that this is a tough moment in my life. I will get through this and I will be better for it.
I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.
I’ve come to realize that sometimes it’s on me when I feel wronged. Usually there’s a reason the other person did it. It might not be a good one but there’s a reason.
The stoic talks about building resilience. I feel like I’m failing at this with certain things in my life. I succumb to impulses and don’t push myself to better. Thinking on that I do feel like I am making progress towards resilience. I work in the morning when I get to work. This is meant to be a form of meditation and a way to start my day and get prepared. That 40 mins could be spent working and getting more things done but at what cost. I feel my resilience might be less. Maybe I am building resilience one day at a time.
I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.
I’m to ask what’s the purpose of this. I have a hard time with chores and cleaning because I see them as activities that happen over and over again with no real value. I don’t live in filthy. It is a bit messy though because I struggle with the reason for doing it.
In the larger view of things this also applies at work. I’m struggling with some of my responsibilities because I’m not all that engaged in them. The work is fine but it doesn’t energize me. I’ve addressed this with my leadership and there is a plan. I still have to do the job though because in the end it does have value even if it doesn’t energize me.
