Stoicism: How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness

Summarise your week. Once a week, do a more in-depth journaling session to review the previous week and examine your progress towards a more Stoic life. If you have goals, chart what you’ve done towards them and see what needs prioritising for the coming week. Make a note of the biggest lesson you’ve learned that week and how you’re applying your S

The problem with these technologies is that our culture of celebrity worship and emphasis on living the perfect life on social media means that many of us fall into the trap of believing self-promotion is more important than self-improvement.

the only thing we can control is ourselves. So it behoves you to act as compassionately and without judgement as possible while giving the other person the benefit of the doubt.

To quote Marcus Aurelius again, “Each man only lives in this present instant…all the rest either has been lived or remains in uncertainty.”

You can sum up Stoicism with one simple idea: you need to accept full control of and take total responsibility for your thoughts and actions.

Marcus Aurelius observed that “most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’”

Epictetus: “Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.”

It doesn’t matter what it is you’re doing. If you worry about winning the approval of others, your focus is in the wrong place.

Seneca wrote, “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

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