Ethan Sykes
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I have a lot of guilt in my life. I feel guilty for not spending more time with my kids. I feel guilty having stayed up too late. I have felt guilty for drinking too much. I am working on correcting those things. I also think I need to forgive myself for some of those things, because life. I believe I also need to live a more disciplined life and I’m working on that too.
Kyle Glenn
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Don’t just admire people who have come before, use them as an example. This is where ego plays a big roll. Having an ego and resting on past accomplishments has driven me to dark places. When I blogged for the Crawfish Boxes I often thought about this concept. As a blogger and even journalist you’d break a story or write something that got a lot of readership and then it was gone. This website for example has a similar feel to it. Most of the traffic comes from a single post I did several years ago about a phone error. I haven’t written anything that brings in nearly amount of the traffic.
One-hit wonders are like this. They do one big hit and then nothing. Where as someone like Linkin Park (or insert favorite band) has hit after hit. Even when the band falls apart Mike Shinoda is still producing content that’s inspiring people. We should rest on our laurels. We should use them as jumping off points to the next thing. We should look to people that inspire us and use them as examples for doing great things. We should also recognize that accomplishments are fleeting things. I’ve accomplished many things in my career. My greatest is starting up a local user group that has grown and succeed. That was over a half decade ago. What have I done lately that really inspires people.
Sergio Rota
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Seize the day. Put everything you have into a day. The last questions asks do you really want to say, “nothing?” Sometimes, yes, I do. I’m okay with saying nothing because it meant I wasn’t overthinking things or constantly on the move. I think there are moments to capture and other times to just do nothing. I could be wrong and I should seize the day. I’m just not there yet.
Karl Lee
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Sunday - Righteousness is Beautiful
I’ve always looked to Major Richard Winter for his calm demeanor and even keel. Today’s stoic talks about what is beautiful. The question that stuck out to me was the even-tempered or undisciplined. Major Winters had a lot of discipline even in uncertain times. Eventually they worked out for him. I’ve been writing multiple stoics in blog posts the last several days because I’ve been undisciplined. I’m trying to work on that and today’s stoic is a good example of why.
Yesterday - How to Have a Good Day
Do good things. That’s it. To have a good day do good things. Don’t worry about what is outside of my control. Do good things each day. It’s that self-reliance that can get me through the day.
Today - Good and Evil! Look at Your Choices
What is the right choice to make. This stoic is a bit vague to me. It seems to be about morality and it also may not be. It could be from our own reasoned choices within. This can be a dangerous if we fall into the wrong things. Then again, I think falling into the wrong things is the wrong choice or the evil choice. Ultimately, I think it’s meaning is to take a reasoned approach to our daily decisions.
Alexandre Debiève
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Spending extravagantly or spending it on people. This sort of goes back to idolizing things. I wasn’t expecting just this as a financial stoic. I think it can also mean spending more time on people. Video games come to mind. Is it more impressive to be the best player or spend time with family and friends. I guess if your teammates are your friends you could have both. Often it’s a team of strangers who build friendships. I’m getting a bit off track. There is certainly a financial component. I also think there’s a in the stars component and learning to stay grounded.
The mind is the asset that must be worked on most. The stoic talks about a doctor having his hands and a farmer having his farm as a way to become more proficient at their profession. I agree with that having worked in IT for 18 years., I got more out of doing my day-to-day job than I did going to training. Training certainly helps and lowers the curve to understanding things. My day-to-day work gave me opportunities to succeed and fail. I feel like I’m doing that now with my study of the daily stoic and Buddhism. I am now working on myself. I have opportunities daily to practice working on my self. I am having successes and failures. That’s comforting to me because I often focus on the failures instead of the successes.