How to Feel Good Every Single Day
There's a simple thing you can do every day that will completely change your perspective on life.
In Never Stop Learning this week I will be covering the following 1-2-3:
One Big Thing - How to feel good every single day
Two Recommendations - More Daily Stoic to get you thinking.
Three Actions to take this week
One Big Thing: How to feel good every single day
The Daily Stoic Newsletter stopped me in my tracks this morning.
Immediately, I abandoned the post I was going to send. I just had to included it here in this week’s newsletter.
“Here’s a way to feel good every single day, no matter what happens. A way to appreciate even a day stuck in the airport or putting out fires.
It’s an exercise from Seneca.
A person who wraps up each day as if it were the end of their life, who meditates on their mortality in the evening, Seneca believed, has a super power when they wake up.
“When a man has said, ‘I have lived!’” Seneca wrote, then “every morning he arises is a bonus.”
This can be a hard concept to embrace, since fatigue descends on so many of us unwittingly, and day breaks before we are ready. But think back: to that one time you were playing with house money, if not literally then metaphorically. Or when your vacation got extended. Or that appointment you were dreading cancelled at the last moment.
Do you remember how you felt? Probably, in a word—better. You feel lighter. Nicer. You appreciate everything. You are present. All the trivial concerns and short term anxieties go away—because for a second, you realize how little they matter.
Well, that’s how you ought to live. Go to bed, having lived a full day, appreciating that you may not get the privilege of waking up tomorrow. And if you do wake up—which we hope for all of you—it will be impossible not to see every second of the next 24 hours as a bonus. As a vacation extended. An appointment with death put off one more day. As playing with house money.
Because they are.”
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Two Recommendations - what to consume this week
1. 12 Stoic Questions That Will Change Your Life
2. How to let go and stop worrying - Daily Stoic
Three Actions To Take This Week
My vision for this newsletter is to provide you with weekly actions that you can take away and use in your life in the coming week. So, here are three things you could try this week:
Pick one person at work and give them some positive feedback.
Do something this week that you will remember forever. What a challenge that is!
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I had the same reaction when I saw that email. This is a refreshing way to look at things.