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Daily Stoic meditation: the antidote to my reading slump.

The book was okay. If anything I found it inspirational and motivating. It describes great leaders and it is a good book to gain insight on how to become a good one. It pushes you and gives you some tips on how to become disciplined but it dragged in a many areas and there weren‘t explicit strategies.

November‘s pick was Discipline is Destiny. I wasn‘t sure about it at first, but ultimately a lot of what he wrote resonated with me, so much that as soon as I finished I re-listened to it. But, November was a good month—strong honorable mentions to Stay True by Hua Hsu and Reagan by Bob Spitz.

New Year, New Habits

This will be my new morning routine. The passage from the Daily Stoic for today, the page from the linked journal then a quick check of the family To Do list using the very funny and profane planner my friend gave me for Christmas.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Started listening to this and found myself sort of rolling my eyes and thinking, “okaaaaay, Cal Newport,” but as it went on I found a lot of the content actually did really land for me, to the point that once I finished, I immediately listened a second time. The premise is that, rather than self denial, self-discipline is actually the way to achieve contentment and satisfaction. When I let myself let that in I realized he has a point.

Hibernating this for a little bit, just because I need some lighter books this season.

Pausing my other books to try and get through this during the loan period. This is the 2nd in his Virtues series, but I have not read the first one. He‘s a great storyteller, I‘m enjoying this so far, especially intertwined with my other Stoic book.

#readathon #readathon2022 #deweys24hoursreadathon 20th hour! #hourlyphoto I did sleep a bit 🤭 back to sprinting in this title, and then we‘ll do an audiobook on our walk!

Not my usual sort of read but we are facing tough times with a relative in later stage dementia... Daily bite sized writing on perseverance and stoic wisdom very much needed as we try to support our relative and keep ourselves looked after too 💔

Not my usual type of read but I rather enjoy the daily reading of these bite size bits of stoic philosophy 😁