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This winter has been challenging. Beyond the icy weather and storms, the events unfolding all over the world have made things feel heavier than usual.

That’s why we’re helping you reset—to refresh your spirit, refocus on what’s most important, and renew your motivation—with the 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge.

There’s just ONE WEEK LEFT to sign up! Join us today at dailystoic.com/spring.

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It was cold. It was dark. We were sick. We were stuck—stuck inside, stuck in the snow, stuck in a rut. That’s winter…that was this winter. It was a rough one. It was a depressing one.

It threw a lot of us off.

But now, we can feel things shifting.

With the coming of spring, we can feel something moving. We can feel a change—in the wind, in the sun, in the trees and the grass and even the birds. The poet Philip Larkin said that the green and growth of spring was nature’s way of encouraging us to “begin afresh, afresh, afresh.”

That was the great choice of our lives, the Stoics believed: Will we keep being the person we’ve always been? Or will we change?

In this symbolic season, you have a chance to change and reset your life. Think of opening a window, letting fresh air into a stagnant house—the rush of energy, the rush of movement, of sunlight, of scents. It rejuvenates us and freshens our surroundings. Give yourself that breath of fresh air. Shed all the heaviness, all the anxiety, all the mental and physical clutter of this past winter. Abandon what doesn’t work for you. Take control of yourself and your life.

What will you write on this fresh page? What will you do with your new start—this period of growth that nature is giving you?

If you’re serious about wanting a reset, join us for the 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge, starting March 20th (the first day of Spring). It’s 10 days of actionable challenges, inspired by the most effective Stoic principles, intended to help you refresh your life and refocus on what matters.

You’ll learn how to tackle things like:

• Digital distractions—inputs that constantly pull us away from what matters
• Commitment overload—saying yes to everything and spreading ourselves too thin
• Mental baggage—unfinished business, unspoken apologies, and unacknowledged truths

You can walk away from this winter and into a new season with clarity and renewed purpose. And you can do it alongside a supportive community sharing your same goals.

As a participant, you’ll receive:

• 10 days of challenges inspired by practical Stoic wisdom
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Each morning, you’ll receive a different Stoic-inspired challenge—a clear exercise or method that will help you refresh your life effectively and immediately.

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It’s a timeless problem.

Old or young. Rich or poor. Married or single. Successful or struggling.

Modern or ancient.

What we do as people is accumulate stuff. We accumulate, accumulate, accumulate…until our homes, our cars, our minds, and our schedules are cluttered. In Meditations, Marcus joked about people “whose abundance leaves their owner with ‘… no place to shit.’”

And that’s just the physical stuff! We also accumulate problems and grudges and anxieties and commitments and opinions—piles and piles of them. Our mental load grows and grows. Our to-do list grows and grows. It all builds up slowly, until we feel overwhelmed, stuck, and weighed down.

There’s only one way out of this mess: ruthlessly decluttering. We have to eliminate, eliminate, eliminate. Get rid of stuff. Get rid of baggage. Let go of beliefs…let go of worries. Let go of people. We have to stop buying things. We have to stop saying yes. We must free ourselves from the weight of excess. Shed what’s unnecessary. Clear away what’s holding us down.

Is there a better time to do this than right now? Spring is coming, and it’s the perfect time to clean up and clear out. That’s the beauty of the idea of spring cleaning. We’re only a few months into the year and already, we know we could use a reset, that we’d benefit from wiping the slate clean.

​And that’s what The Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge is all about.​

Starting on the first day of Spring, March 20, we’ll take on 10 days of Stoic-inspired challenges. These will help you tackle the physical and mental clutter weighing you down, like:

• Digital distractions—inputs that constantly pull us away from what matters
• Commitment overload—saying yes to everything and spreading ourselves too thin
• Mental baggage—resentments, unfinished business, and unspoken apologies

We spring clean so we can spring forward. We clear the clutter to make room for what truly matters. We eliminate the unnecessary to focus on the essential.

Are you ready?

Then join us for the 2026 Daily Stoic 10-day Spring Forward challenge!

Reset your life. Refocus on what’s important. Renew your motivation and your purpose without all of the things currently holding you back.

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Zeno lost everything in a shipwreck. A family fortune. His occupation. His entire future, swallowed by the sea.

On at least two occasions, Seneca lost everything he'd worked so hard for. First, illness derailed his legal career, and it took him ten full years—prime years—to recuperate. Then, just as he was getting things back on track, he ran afoul of the emperor and was banished from Rome for nearly as long as he had been infirm.

Zeno and Seneca, like countless other Stoics and people through history, were members of Rudyard Kipling’s club—the one where you learn to:

There was nothing Zeno could have done to prevent that shipwreck. There was nothing Seneca could have done to prevent that illness or that exile. Just as there was nothing you could have done to prevent this or that bad break. But here you are. Facing it. That's life. Stuff happens. Then what?

We can whine about it. We can shift blame. We can become bitter or disillusioned. Or “lose, and start again at your beginnings,” Kipling writes, “and never breathe a word about your loss.”

Shipwreck. Exile. Failure. Getting fired. A season-ending injury. None of these things are good. They are certainly not things we would choose. But for a Stoic, they can be good if they make you good. It is not unfortunate if one finds a way to make something fortunate from them.

So stoop down. Pick up the worn-out tools. And start building again.

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Ready to take back your time for what’s most important to you? Ready to tackle what’s been piling up and weighing you down?

Here’s your chance.

​The 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge starts in just THREE DAYS, and it's designed for those who want more clarity, less physical and mental clutter, and more time to focus on what matters most.

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This isn't about making sweeping resolutions that just fade away. Instead, the 10-Day Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge provides actionable takeaways to help you to immediately:

• Reset your life
• Renew your motivation
• Refocus on what matters most to you

These practical, daily actions will move you closer to living the life you want for yourself.

The time is now. Let’s get after it.

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Just TWO DAYS left to get your reset. I know 2026 has gotten off to a rough start for many of us. Join me and thousands of others in resetting this year with our 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge.

Look around. People are rushing everywhere. Rushing through traffic. Rushing to get their kids to bed. Rushing through work to get to the weekend. No time to talk. No time to sit. There is too much to do. There is somewhere to go, the faster the better.

Even in ancient Rome, it was the same. People rushing to get their mail, rushing to the next round of games in the Colosseum, rushing to their next big accomplishment. Or at least that’s what they thought…

Seneca makes the point, however, that what we are really rushing towards—with deliberate speed—is death.

That’s what he means when he says that we get death wrong. Death is not some distant thing in the future, not some one-time thing that looms ahead. Instead, death is something happening to you right now. It’s happening as you read your email, it’s happening as you procrastinate that task on your to-do list, and it’s happening still more as you sit down to that coffee meeting you rushed to, even though you didn’t want to have it in the first place.

You’ll never get to live what has been lived again. So why are you rushing? Why are you thinking about the future at the expense of the present?

Why aren’t you showing up to the right here and now?

There’s still a chance to reset. No season reminds us of the possibility of rebirth, of the possibility for life to start anew, than Spring. It’s the time to reassess, to reset, to refocus. A time to plant the seeds of better habits and routines—so that you can reap more meaningful relationships and success and contentment.

And that’s exactly why we created The Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge, updated and refreshed for the unique challenges of 2026. Imagine if you got your year back on course. How much of a difference would that make by the end of the month? By the end of the year? Don’t write off the next nine months because the year got off to a rough start. Reclaim it. It’s yours. Now’s the time to get it back on track.

We start in just TWO DAYS, on March 20th. We’d love to see you in there.

Each morning for 10 days, starting on the first day of Spring (THIS FRIDAY, March 20th), you’ll receive a different Stoic-inspired challenge: an actionable exercise or method that you can put to use in your life right away to rid yourself of the physical and mental clutter holding you back from your goals.

You’ll learn how to tackle:

• Digital distractions—inputs that constantly pull us away from what matters
• Commitment overload—saying “yes” to everything and spreading ourselves too thin
• Making amends—cleaning the slate and mending your important relationships
• Mental baggage—unfinished business, unspoken apologies, and unacknowledged truths

Plus, you’ll be invited to attend TWO LIVE Q&A CALLS with Ryan Holiday, where you’ll get a rare opportunity to discuss the challenges and ask him your questions.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• 10 days of challenges built around the most effective Stoic principles
• Exclusive access to a members-only platform
• Printable progress tracker

“I got so much out of the course. I needed the reset. Decluttering areas, knocking inessentials off my calendar and decluttering the mind takes a lot of discipline but is doable with daily practice.” – Lee Ann R.

“This challenge offered me an opportunity to make amends with the negative things that have happened to me in my life. I’ve been able to embrace my situation and found this challenge very therapeutic.” – Yannick

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​The Diet That Is Making You Miserable​

A few weeks back, I was down near Phoenix and swung out to talk to the Chicago Cubs and the Arizona Diamondbacks who were in the middle of Spring Training.

These are elite athletes. Preparing for the talk, I was thinking about just how hard it is to do what these professional baseball players do. Hitting a baseball almost defies physics. The amount of time you have between when you decide to swing and when the ball crosses the plate is almost nothing. It is nearly physically impossible. That’s why so few people can actually do it. And even the people who can do it can only do it maybe three or four out of ten times. It is one of the hardest things in sports.

But it struck me, as I was sitting in the cafeteria after, helping myself to a prepared, perfectly portioned, macro-balanced plate of eggs with turkey bacon and fresh fruit, and chatting with some of the players, that while they spend enormous amounts of time thinking about their diet and nutrition and they have some of the best people in the world helping them optimize what they put in their bodies, they think a lot less about what goes into their brains.

In fact, many of them—like the rest of us—are injecting straight garbage on a daily basis.

We are, after all, flooded with more information than entire civilizations could have produced, let alone imagined.

The key practice in the modern world is not how to consume all of it, but how do we decide what not to consume? How do we stay informed about what’s happening without overwhelming ourselves with distractions? How do we manage our information diet with the same discipline that we would put towards our actual diet? Because just as what we put in our bodies matters, what we put—or fail to put—in our minds matters too.

Presidents of the United States face this problem most acutely. The president famously gets what is known as the Presidential Daily Briefing, typically three pages of top-secret information about international developments and concerns, delivered, as the name implies, daily, with in-person explanations and summaries. The best presidents listen intently, ask questions, and then apply what they’ve learned to their day-to-day decisions.

But we live in a world where the President doesn’t read this carefully curated document assembled by intelligence agencies and experts, and instead prefers to get his news from social media…and not just any social media network but one made up of his biggest, more ideologically zealous fans. If this bubble were not enough, there are also reports that he employs a special assistant whose job it is every day to bring him printed-out positive articles about himself to keep his spirits up.

Elon Musk is another example of how what you consume can warp you. He went from reading rocket manuals and reasoning from first principles to obsessively refreshing his Twitter feed. A man who could pay for a daily briefing rivaling even the most powerful heads of state instead mainlines information from trolls and pundits and conspiracy theorists.

This mirrors the problem we all face. We have access to the kind of information that emperors could have only dreamed of. This is real power, but as always, power corrupts and disorients and distracts. We have more information than emperors could have dreamed of. We are also subjected to more misinformation than they could have conceived of in their worst nightmare.

Audio. Video. Text. It comes at us at incomprehensible speeds.

It takes discipline and wisdom to manage your information diet properly, to be a discerning and selective conduit for everything that’s coming at you.

Almost certainly, your information diet has too much real-time information in it. The news. The feeds. The notifications. Almost certainly, you would be better off if you read more books. If you focused on information with a longer half-life.

Personally, I prefer a steady diet of books about history and human nature (here’s a list of timely books I put together for 2026). They’re not all fun and sunshine—there’s plenty of darkness, too—but I learn far more from that than from endless scrolling. I’m deliberate about which chats and texts I participate in and who I spend time with. In programming, there’s a saying: “garbage in, garbage out.” I try to let in the opposite of garbage, because that leads to the opposite of garbage out.

“The art of not reading is a very important one,” Schopenhauer said of avoiding popular rubbish. It’s not how much you know, but that you know the right things. It’s not that you read, it’s what and how you read. “Do not be eager to know everything,” Democritus reminded himself in the fifth century BC, “lest you become ignorant of everything.”

Go straight to the source when you can. Check sources always.

Choose quality over quantity.

Find experts you can trust. Verify them first.

Favor information that has staying power over what is “developing” or “just in.” Try to get the big picture. Try to make connections between what’s happening now and what has happened before.

Seek out things that challenge you. Hear what the other side has to say.

Pay attention to where misery, negativity, dysfunction, and chaos sneak into your life. Ask yourself, when was the last time X or Instagram left you feeling informed. Reddit? Cable news in an airport? If it isn’t leaving you calmer or wiser, maybe it’s time to cut it off at the source.

You don’t have to be uninformed—just be intentional about what you consume and who you engage with.

The best hitters in baseball will tell you that what separates the good from the great, at the highest level, is plate discipline. It’s the ability to lay off pitches. To not swing the bat. To be discerning.

That skill applies here too. The feeds. All the hot takes. The notifications. The group chats. The breaking news. Most of it is designed to get a reaction out of you, not to make you wiser or better informed. You need to cultivate the discipline to lay off the junk. To not take in everything thrown on your plate. To discern what’s worth your time and what’s designed to get a rise out of you. To swing only at the right pitches.

Because you are what you eat. And what you read, what you watch, what you let into your information diet.

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Join me, starting TOMORROW, for your spring reset in our 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. This is your last chance to sign up in time to be included in our two LIVE Q&A calls hosted by me, Ryan Holiday. See you in there!

Winter has a way of lulling us into bad habits and stagnation. We burrow deep into our comfortable routines. We’ve found a favorite spot on the couch, our go-to delivery meals, our perfectly temperature-controlled environments. We hide beneath jackets and sweats. We master the art of avoiding the cold, the wind, all the discomfort of the outside world.

They call it a velvet rut—soft and pleasant, but still a rut. And yes, for months of dark mornings and early sunsets, trudging through slush and scraping ice off windshields, it’s perfectly reasonable to seek shelter in these ways.

But you can’t stay this way forever! Just as seedlings must break through soil, we must break through our comfortable patterns. Nature doesn’t stay dormant forever—and neither should we.

“Stop wandering about!” Marcus Aurelius said to himself, perhaps on the eve of a new season just like this one. “Get busy with life’s purpose,” he commanded, “toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.”

Here at Daily Stoic, we believe in moving with the seasons. We believe in facing the winds of change head-on.

And that’s what I’m going to be doing starting tomorrow, with thousands of other Daily Stoic readers all over the world, in the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. It’s 10 days of actionable, Stoic-inspired challenges to help you reset your life and refocus on what’s important to you.

We’ll do two live Q&A calls together as well, where you’ll get a chance to ask me your questions and we’ll discuss the challenges.

No matter how your year started, no matter what life has thrown at you, no matter how hopeless the world feels right now, spring is the time to do this—to refresh, to get back on track, to renew our motivation and get after it.

Every morning for the next ten days, join us—thousands of other people just like you, trying to be a little bit better. To clean out the stuff that’s getting in the way. I’d love to see you in there. You can sign up right now at dailystoic.com/spring.

We start TOMORROW, so don’t miss this chance. Let’s go.

You’ll gain practical tools to:

• Clear your space and your mind
• Create better systems for yourself
• Accomplish what you’ve been putting off
• Refocus on what’s important to you
• Abandon what drains you
• Reclaim valuable time for yourself

You’ll learn how to tackle:

• Digital distractions—inputs that constantly pull us away from what matters
• Commitment overload—saying “yes” to everything and spreading ourselves too thin
• Making amends—cleaning the slate and mending your important relationships
• Mental baggage—unfinished business, unspoken apologies, and unacknowledged truths

Break free. Renew your sense of clarity. Refocus on what’s important. Reset your life after your winter rut. Challenge yourself.

Join us as we reset our 2026 and refresh our lives for a new season with the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge.

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FINAL HOURS: The 2026 Spring Forward Challenge has begun—join us now!

You could do it when things get warmer. You could do it when winter is officially over. You could do it when things calm down at work. You could do it after things get settled. You could wait for permission, for an excuse, for help.

Or…or you could do it now.

You could stop putting off what you have been procrastinating. You could tackle what you know needs to be tackled. You could clean up what is screaming to be cleaned up.

As seasons change, as the clocks move forward, as new growth appears on the trees, there is room for other forms of renewal. This is the time, the Stoics would say. Right now is the time. Otherwise, we are, as Seneca said, the fool who is always getting ready. Epictetus, for his part, laid down a similar challenge: "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?"

Everyone knows there are things we need to reset—to improve, to be better, to live better, think better. But maybe life has gotten in the way. Maybe you’ve tried but haven’t followed through. Maybe you’ve put it off, telling yourself that there will be a better time to do it.

But if not now, when?

It’s time to stop putting it off until later, waiting for it to just happen. Because it won’t. Someone has to take control.

That someone is you.

Forget the excuses you’ve made. Forget how rough the last couple of months have been. That’s what’s lovely about the idea of spring’s renewal. It wipes clean the winter we’ve just had. It’s a new ballgame. We’re only a few months into the year and we get a chance to start fresh.

That’s what we’re doing starting TODAY in the 2026 Daily Stoic 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge. It’s designed to help you refresh your commitment to your self-improvement, refocus on what’s most important to you, and renew your motivation. After a winter like the one we just went through, we all need a little push. We all need a little hope and a little momentum to get us going again—towards making every minute count and becoming the version of ourselves we know we can be.

It's not too late. Even though you may have procrastinated about signing up, you can still get your reset, right now. Take control.

Only a handful of hours remain to join us. Let’s get after it.

You’ll get 10 updated challenges designed to set up life-changing habits for 2026 and beyond.

Plus, you’ll be invited to TWO LIVE Q&A CALLS hosted by me, Ryan Holiday, where you’ll get an opportunity to ask me your questions and discuss the challenges.

Spring forward with me and thousands of Stoics from across the globe learning to live a life full of clarity and purpose.

Gain actionable tools to tackle things like:

• Digital distractions—inputs that constantly pull us away from what matters
• Commitment overload—saying “yes” to everything and spreading ourselves too thin
• Making amends—cleaning the slate and mending your important relationships
• Mental baggage—unfinished business, unspoken apologies, and unacknowledged truths

You’ll also receive:

• Exclusive access to our members-only platform
• Printable progress tracker

Ask yourself how much of a difference the next 10 months could have on your life if you learned…

To thrive, rather than survive?

To be fully in control of yourself, instead of letting external circumstances control you?

To make intentional choices, instead of letting the chips fall where they may?

Head over to dailystoic.com/spring to sign up—we start today and this is the FINAL CALL to join us. See you in there!

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It’s NOT TOO LATE if you want to reset with our 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge! We started yesterday, but this is the LAST CALL to join us and catch up in time.

Winter has a way of lulling us into bad habits and stagnation. We burrow deep into our comfortable routines. We’ve found a favorite spot on the couch, our go-to delivery meals, our perfectly temperature-controlled environments. We hide beneath jackets and sweats. We master the art of avoiding the cold, the wind, all the discomfort of the outside world.

They call it a velvet rut—soft and pleasant, but still a rut. And yes, for months of dark mornings and early sunsets, trudging through slush and scraping ice off windshields, it’s perfectly reasonable to seek shelter in these ways.

But you can’t stay this way forever! Just as seedlings must break through soil, we must break through our comfortable patterns. Nature doesn’t stay dormant forever—and neither should we.

“Stop wandering about!” Marcus Aurelius said to himself, perhaps on the eve of a new season just like this one. “Get busy with life’s purpose,” he commanded, “toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.”

Here at Daily Stoic, we believe in moving with the seasons. We believe in facing the winds of change head-on.

And that’s what I’m doing NOW (we started yesterday, but you can still join us if you act now!), with thousands of other Daily Stoic readers all over the world, in the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. It’s 10 days of actionable, Stoic-inspired challenges to help you reset your life and refocus on what’s important to you.

We’ll do two live Q&A calls together as well, where you’ll get a chance to ask me your questions and we’ll discuss the challenges.

No matter how your year started, no matter what life has thrown at you, no matter how hopeless the world feels right now, spring is the time to do this—to refresh, to get back on track, to renew our motivation and get after it.

Every morning for the next ten days, join us—thousands of other people just like you, trying to be a little bit better. To clean out the stuff that’s getting in the way. I’d love to see you in there. You can sign up right now at dailystoic.com/spring.

We’ve already started, but there’s still time to jump in, so DON’T MISS THIS SECOND CHANCE. Let’s get after it!

You’ll gain practical tools to:

• Clear your space and your mind
• Create better systems for yourself
• Accomplish what you’ve been putting off
• Refocus on what’s important to you
• Abandon what drains you
• Reclaim valuable time for yourself

You’ll learn how to tackle:

• Digital distractions—inputs that constantly pull us away from what matters
• Commitment overload—saying “yes” to everything and spreading ourselves too thin
• Making amends—cleaning the slate and mending your important relationships
• Mental baggage—unfinished business, unspoken apologies, and unacknowledged truths

Break free. Renew your sense of clarity. Refocus on what’s important. Reset your life after your winter rut. Challenge yourself.

Join us as we reset our 2026 and refresh our lives for a new season with the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge.

Head over to dailystoic.com/spring to join us! We’ve already started but you can still jump in if you join now!

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