Daily Stoic(s)

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Saturday - Trust, But Verify

I’m a bit of a question when interacting with other people. I like to understand the context of things. I don’t do that as much with some of my own decisions and habits. I am starting to take more time though and stop. Think about the thought and verify it comes from a good place or at the very least understanding where it is coming from.

Sunday - Prepare Yourself For Negativity

This is the one passage I bookmarked last year. I did it to use it as my mantra for the morning. That didn’t stick. What did is that I am going to run into people with afflictions that impact how I interact with them. I can’t control that. So, instead of getting upset I’ve been prepared that it’s going to happen and I move forward with what I can. It’s been tremendous for every aspect of my life and I look forward to continuing to use it.

Yesterday - Expect To Change Your Opinion

It’s interesting how at a afar we make opinions good or bad about people we don’t interact with a whole lot. That can change as we get to know them. I’ve had that recently where it went from, “that person would never act like that” to “Oh. They very much act like that.” I try to keep an open mind about people. I’ve had too many experience where good people turned out bad and bad people turned out to be cool.

Today - The Cost Of Accepting Counterfeits

As mentioned previously, I’m a bit of a questioner. I’m not satisfied with answers like, “it’s always been that way” or “Because I said so.” I need some good reasoning or more importantly data for me to accept things. I think that’s helped me in forming opinions and decisions that impact others. I need to see the data that says this is the right way to interact with people or make a decision. This has put me at odds with others who don’t necessarily thing that way.

Don't Let This Go To Your Head

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At one point success had made me bitter and egotistically. I’ve always thought of myself as someone who wouldn’t change with success but I did. Not in a demonstrative way but in a way that put me in a negative or foul mood. Since studying stoicism I’ve learned that I must remain humble even in my success. I must stay with empathy to help explain something that may be frustrating for me. We’re all inherinetly good and we’re all doing our best. In that regard I think sense has helped me become a much more calm and steady person.

Daily Stoic(s)

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Yesterday - Be Wary Of What You Let In

I can choose what thoughts and people I let into my life. I try to stay surrounded by people who are positive. I’m working on my own mindset too. Right now I feel exhausted and that keeps creeping into my mind. I’m trying to inject more energetic thoughts into my mind. It’s tough.

Today - Deceived And Divided

There’s constant conflict going on in my mind.Particularly it’s around doing things I know I should do and things I want to do. What’s confusing is that the should stuff is influenced by my upbringing and the high standard my parents set for me in cleaning and schooling. When I don’t meet those standards I can be hard on myself. I do get to it at some point. Often not soon enough for myself.

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Yesterday - You’re A Product Of Your Training

In this stoic it’s about training your mind to avoid bad choices. Like kids with no boundaries our decisions can run rampant and spoiled. This is something I’m working on as I make decisions. I’m trying to push the boundaries a lot like I would train. I’m trying to accept that I won’t reach my max on the first try. No one ever does. It takes time, effort, and practice to really start making good decisions. It’s hard to forget that’s how I got to my current state where I am making better choices.

Today - The Color Of Your Thoughts

How I shape things in in mind can influence how I react or behave. I’ve learned this the hard way and I’m trying to change that. Think more positively. One of my favorite phrases at work is, “assume positive intent.” It really helps try to put myself in other people’s shoes. It helps understand that the other person may be stressed and made a poor decision or is doing what they believe is right. I can beat myself up pretty bad with internal thoughts. That doesn’t help either. I’m learning to forgive and move on. Focus on doing things better the next time.

Reason In All Things

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I should rule by reason and not by impulse. I feel like I’ve been working on that a lot. Part of that is breaking habits of those impulses. Staying up late is one of those. I’m starting to become more conscious of those decisions which is helping me make better decisions.