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With tonight’s clock change, you’ll lose an hour you’ll never get back. And while most will simply move their clocks forward, what if you could use this moment to move your life forward?

Refocus on what matters most, refresh your routines, renew your motivation, and make room to reach your potential this season with our 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge.

Walk away with tools to achieve your goals, create better systems for yourself, accomplish what you’ve been putting off, and clear out what’s weighing you down.

Reset your 2026 and sign up for the Spring Forward Challenge today!

PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:

This is not without its consequences—to you or to society—but it doesn’t change the fact that these people are also victims, that they are not this way on purpose.
Read: They're Not Wrong (They're Just Cut Off From Truth)

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The Complete Stoic Playbook to MASTER Your Emotions

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Do your emotions ever get you in trouble? This week on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan shares Stoic advice for mastering them.

You’re always starting with a blank page. But if you show up, if you do the work, if you do what you’re supposed to do every day, if you trust the process, you will get from there to here.
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Jordan Klepper on How to Talk to People You Disagree With (Without Losing It)

This week on the podcast, Jordan Klepper, correspondent and host at The Daily Show, sits down with Ryan to explain why arguing almost never works, how silence can be more powerful than a comeback, and what most of us misunderstand about why people believe what they believe.

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Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

What You’re Made For: Powerful Life Lessons from My Career in Sports by George Raveling and Ryan Holiday


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Your Takeaways of the Week

Refresh your life. Renew your motivation. Refocus on improving yourself and the world around you.

Join us for the 2026 Spring Forward Challenge, designed to help you reset your physical spaces, your mind, and your routines.

Head to dailystoic.com/spring to sign up and learn more today!

PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:

You are exhausted. You are burned out. You are in a perpetually bad mood. And yet it’s not hard to imagine that you will look back on this very period—whether your kids are 3 or 13—as an absolutely wonderful time.

Read: You’ll Think This Later; Might As Well Feel It Now


YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

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This week on Ryan Holiday’s YouTube channel, he shares his recommended books for honing your persuasion skills.

It’s not just how good your ideas are … but it’s how good you are at communicating those ideas, convincing people they should care about them.
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PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

This week on The Daily Dad Podcast, learn why spring brings an important reminder:

In that eagerness and all those activities, from baseball games to camping trips, suddenly the calendar becomes so busy that we miss the gentle reminder inherent in the change in seasons.
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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

What You’re Made For: Powerful Life Lessons from My Career in Sports by George Raveling and Ryan Holiday


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They Should Have What They Want

It’s probably not going to be what they hope. It’s not going to feel as they dreamed. It’s not going to make them happy. It’s not going to satisfy them.

It rarely does, right? Historically, that is. Has any conqueror ever been satisfied? Has any conquest ever not been a little bittersweet, a little underwhelming? How often do any of the things people dream of and lust for and fight over end up producing happiness?

The Stoics knew this. And deep down, we do too, even if we lose sight of it again and again.

So we step back and let people choose for themselves. We should repeat to ourselves, as Taylor Swift says, “And they should have what they want / They deserve what they want / Hope they get what they want.” Because it’s not our place to ‘yuck’ other people’s ‘yums.’ It’s not our place to judge. It’s not our place to interfere.

What we should focus on is where we are lusting and dreaming and fighting for so-called “externals.” We should think about where we have made our happiness conditional on this or that achievement, on this or that identity which lies outside our control. We should remind ourselves that we have plenty right now, that we can feel good—feel enough—right now.

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Do You See The Signs?

It’s been a long winter. There was that ice storm. There was that week of sub-zero wind chill. There were those days when you were tired of being stuck inside. Those nights when it got dark so early. It has felt, like the song goes, like a lot of Monday mornings in an endless February.

So naturally, you were not at your best. You were a little depressed. You were tired. You had a hard time getting momentum. You were jarred, as Marcus Aurelius said, by circumstances outside your control.

But now? Now you can feel something is in the air. It’s those early signs of Spring. A little warmth. A little green. A little blue sky. Wonderful!

Do not waste it. Take this as a sign. Use it as a chance, to finish that Marcus Aurelius quote, to revert back to yourself. Grab the rhythm again. Clean up your act. Get after it.

Now is the time.

That’s really what the 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge is all about.

In January, thousands of Stoics got together to do the Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge. Maybe you set some resolutions or goals…and then what happened? Life happened.

Well, the 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge will help you reset your life, renew your motivation, and refocus on what you can do to improve yourself and your life—and by extension, the world around you.

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We’re just a few months into the year and already so much has been thrown at us: war, political instability, civil unrest, financial turbulence, AI uncertainties, rising global tensions.

Differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t—what we have influence over and what we do not—is the single most important practice in Stoic philosophy. There are many external things happening in the world right now that we have no control over.

So what can we control? Ourselves.

In the 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge, you’ll gain practical tools to:

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  • Initiate your goals
  • Abandon what drains you
  • Reclaim valuable time for yourself
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Each morning, you’ll receive one actionable Stoic-inspired challenge—a clear exercise or method that you can put to use in your life right away. (And for those who choose to delve deeper into the foundational wisdom and modern research behind the challenges, a compendium of further reading is provided.)

As a participant, you’ll receive:

  • 10 days of personal challenges
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Join us, and thousands of Stoics around the world, as we spring forward into a season of fresh starts.

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Have You Lost The Beat, Tune, or Rhythm?

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Here’s a great passage from the Gregory Hays translation of Meditations:

“When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep on going back to it.”

In his great annotated edition of Meditations, Robin Waterfield translated that same passage like this:

“When the pressure of circumstances somewhat disturbs your peace of mind, recover quickly and don’t lose your rhythm for longer than necessary. In any case, you’ll master the measure all the better by constantly returning to it.”

The same passage in George William Chrystal’s 1902 translation:

“Whenever your situation forces trouble upon you, return quickly to yourself, and interrupt the rhythm of life no longer than you are compelled. Your grasp of the harmony will grow surer by continual recurrence to it.”

Maxwell Staniforth’s 1964 translation:

“When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.”

And for The Daily Stoic, Stephen Hanselman translated it like this:

“When forced, as it seems, by circumstances into utter confusion, get a hold of yourself quickly. Don’t be locked out of the rhythm any longer than necessary. You’ll be able to keep the beat if you are constantly returning to it.”

Five different translators. Five different ways of saying it.

And yet the core message rings through every version: You will get knocked off course. You will lapse on a resolution. You will fall off the wagon. You will get out of sorts. That’s unavoidable. What matters is how quickly you return. How fast you find the rhythm again.

It’s worth thinking about this passage right now, because this is exactly the time of year when most of us begin feeling like we’ve lost the rhythm.

Think about where you were in January. The slate was clean. You had goals, intentions, energy. You were going to read more, eat better, get organized, and be more present.

But then life happened. The clutter crept back in. The calendar filled up. The inbox overflowed. The habits you meant to build quietly fell away, replaced by the ones you meant to break. The things you were putting off kept getting put off. The messes—physical, digital, emotional—piled up.

And now here we are, already a couple of months into 2026, and if you’re honest with yourself, you’re a little more cluttered than you’d like. A little more scattered. A little more stressed.

Marcus would tell you: that’s fine. That’s life. The important thing is, will you get back on track? Will you return to the rhythm?

That’s what spring is for. Cleaning things up. Paring things down. Getting back into the rhythm.

And that’s what the 2026 Daily Stoic 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge is for. It’s a series of actionable challenges intended to help you clean up, reset your life, and refocus on what matters. We start March 20th—and we hope you’ll join us.

You’ll gain practical tools to:

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Each morning for 10 days, you’ll receive a different Stoic-inspired challenge—a clear exercise or method that you can put to use in your life right away to tackle the physical and mental clutter that’s weighing you down, like:

  • Doom boxes—those containers where we stash things we don’t know what to do with, creating black holes of clutter
  • 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 unrealized truths

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What Can You Notice?

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For years, the seasons passed Chloe Dalton by in a blur—like they do for most of us. Travel, deadlines, work, the constant churn of ambition and obligation.

Then, during the pandemic, she spends lockdown in an old house in the English countryside. On a walk one day, she comes across a leveret (a baby wild hare) and nurses it back to life. What ensues is a surreal and moving friendship, as the hare becomes a free-range companion, hopping around the house, snoozing quietly by Dalton’s side as she writes, running in from the fields when called, drumming softly on the duvet to get Dalton’s attention, even giving birth and raising babies inside the house. Spending hundreds of lonely, quiet hours with the leveret—which she never named—Dalton learned to understand its habits and needs, seeing the world from its point of view.

She writes in her lovely book, Raising Hare:

“I felt a new spirit of attentiveness to nature, no less wonderful for being entirely unoriginal, for as old as it is as a human experience, it was new to me. For many years, the seasons had largely passed by, my perceptions of the steady cycle of nature disrupted by travel and urban life. I had observed nature in broad brushstrokes, in primary colors, at a surface level. I had been most interested in whether it was dry enough to walk, or warm enough to eat outside with friends. I could identify only a handful of birds and trees by name. I hadn’t observed the buds unfurling, the seasonal passage of birds, the unshakeable rituals and rhythms of life in a single field or wood. I now marveled at the purple tinge on the black feathers of a house martin—the smallest creature I had ever seen—which flew into the house one morning…observing the gleam of the sun on the mirror finish of its plumage, before releasing it into the air.”

It’s reminiscent of Marcus Aurelius noticing, as he does in a moving passage in Meditations (our favorite translation here) “The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven…Or how ripe figs begin to burst. And olives on the point of falling: the shadow of decay gives them a peculiar beauty. Stalks of wheat bending under their own weight. The furrowed brow of the lion. Flecks of foam on the boar’s mouth.”

There is beauty and peace in noticing. The small, daily transformations. The subtle shifts of light through the windows. The cracks on the sidewalk. The sounds of birds. The world is filled with things to see and hear.

Are you cultivating the stillness to notice them? To appreciate them? To let them into your life?

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The Day Control Was Taken From Us

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is loud and fast again. But the real question is: what were we supposed to learn from the moment when everything slowed down?

In this episode, Ryan talks with award-winning author Chloe Dalton about the strange stillness of those early pandemic months and how one unexpected encounter with a wild hare during lockdown completely changed the way she thought about time, work, and the life she was building.

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You Slipped Up. Here’s How To Get Back On Track

You Slipped Up. Here’s How To Get Back On Track

It was a long winter.

You got sick. You lapsed on a resolution. You slipped up. You’re tired, distracted, out of sorts.

So you’re going to write off the rest of 2026?

That’s crazy.

In one of my favorite passages in Meditations, Marcus Aurelius writes, “When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help.”

I think that word “unavoidably” is key. Slipping up, getting knocked off course, falling off the wagon—it happens.

And that’s what I want to talk about in today’s email: some rules for a reset. Here—already a couple of months into 2026—is the perfect time. For getting back to first principles, to the things that you said you were going to do, to the person that you know you want to be.

(And by the way, I’m getting together with thousands of Stoics from around the world to do a reset as part of ​The Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge​ on March 20. It’s a set of 10 daily, actionable challenges designed to help you clean up your life and spring forward without the weight of bad habits and vices. ​You can learn more and sign up here​. I hope to see you there!)

Focus on what you can control. You’re rattled by what’s going on in the world. The economy. The news. The possibility of AI taking your job. Whatever outrage is dominating the social media feeds this week. In short, you’re spending enormous amounts of time and energy on things you cannot control. Revert to what Epictetus described as our “chief task in life”—getting real clear about what’s up to us and what isn’t. Our actions, our thoughts, our feelings—these are up to us. Other people, the weather, external events, these are not. But here’s the thing: our responses to other people, the weather, external events are in our control. To reset your life, the best place to start is with making this distinction and then choosing to focus on the things that are in your control. If only because it concentrates your resources in the places where they matter.

Wake up early. No one likes getting up early in the winter. Because it's cold. It’s dark. That's the famous passage from Meditations: he knows he has to get out of bed, but so desperately wants to remain under the warm covers. “Is this what I was created for?” he asks himself. “To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?” No, it’s not what we were created for. We were made to be up and “doing things and experiencing them.” So we must reclaim the morning hours, the most productive hours in the day. Hemingway would talk about how he’d get up early because early, there was, “no one to disturb you.” Toni Morrison found she was just more confident in the morning, before the day had exacted its toll and the mind was fresh. Like most of us, she realized she was just “not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.” Who can be? After a day of banal conversations, frustrations, mistakes, and exhaustion. If you want to get back on track, if you want to start executing at a higher level, then you have to get in the habit of waking up early.

Protect the best part of your day. Waking up early is critical, but even more so is what we do in those early hours. Waking up early just to get straight into scrolling social media, checking email, watching the news—this is not a reset. You’ve handed the best part of your day to other people’s emergencies, other people’s opinions, other people’s agendas. The novelist Philipp Meyer​ (whose book ​The Son​​ is an incredible read) told me on the Daily Stoic podcast, “You have to be very careful about to what (and to whom) you’re giving the best part of your day.” Well-intentioned plans fall apart as the day progresses. Our willpower evaporates. The world makes its demands. So it’s key that we prioritize the important things and that we habitualize doing them early. Personally, I fiercely protect my mornings—family first, then writing. My assistant knows not to schedule anything before mid-morning because early calls and meetings don’t just take time—they sap the energy needed for the essential work. I want to give my best self to my most important things. Everything else can come after.

Do less, better. Your calendar is filled up. Your inbox is flooded. Your to-do list is overflowing. You’re doing too much. When I talked to the great Matthew McConaughey on the Daily Stoic podcast, he told me the story about a moment a few years ago when he realized he was doing too much. “I had five proverbial campfires on my desk,” he said. He had a production company, a music label, a foundation, his acting career, and his family. “What I did was I got rid of two of the campfires.” He called his lawyer and shut down the production company and the music label. “I was left with the three things that were most important to me. And those three campfires turned into bonfires…I had been making C’s in five things, but when I concentrated on three things, I started making A’s.” A reset requires concentration. It requires elimination, Seneca said: “He who is everywhere is nowhere.” Remember: Everything you say yes to means saying no to something else. And conversely, everything you say no to means saying yes to something else. When you say no, when you cut out the inessential, the Stoics say, it allows you to double down on what is truly essential.

Just make a little progress every day. For a long time, my writing habit was all-or-nothing—either I wrote a lot of words or I didn’t. Over time, I’ve lowered the stakes: now the question is simply, “Did I make a positive contribution to my writing today?” Sometimes that means writing, sometimes editing, adding, deleting. Sometimes I’m home and it’s in my office, sometimes I’m on the road and it’s on a plane or in a hotel room. Sometimes it’s a big contribution, sometimes it’s a little contribution. “Well-being is realized by small steps,” Zeno would say looking back on his life, “but is truly no small thing.” Focus on that—just making a little progress each day.

Focus on process, not goals. When most people think about resetting their life, they think about setting a goal—lose 20 pounds, read 30 books, write a book. But goals are just finish lines—they’re about achieving something specific, often external, and usually out of your control. A better approach is to focus on the process: the daily work and the practices that will move you forward, regardless of the outcome. As I wrote about recently, I don’t have goals. When I write, I don’t focus on finishing books—that would be overwhelming. Instead, I focus on my notecard system and writing for a couple hours every day. The books emerge from that process naturally, over time. Any time you want to reset things in your life, instead of fixating on specific outcomes, focus on the process that will guide you. The results will take care of themselves.

Make amends. This is actually one of the challenges in the upcoming ​Spring Forward​: to apologize or make amends with someone. Years ago, there was someone I got into a big fight with over one of my books. I eventually emailed them, saying, “Hey, here’s what I’ve been carrying, and I wish I’d done it differently. I feel bad about the consequences for you. I’m sorry.” I’d love to say we became friends afterward, but they didn’t accept my apology—instead, they hurled more anger at me. It was obvious they still carried a lot of resentment, but making amends is also a gift you give yourself. I said what I needed to say, so I’m no longer ruminating or carrying it around. I owned my role in it. I tried to be who I want to be. If they aren’t there yet, that’s okay—I did what I could. As Marcus Aurelius said, the best revenge is not being like the person who wronged you. Maybe they’ll never see your side, but at least you won’t turn into them. We can’t change the past, but we can take responsibility: acknowledge our mistakes, own the pain we caused, learn from it, practice empathy, and try to repair it. This is a kind of deep clean for your life, allowing you to start fresh and move forward without the weight of that emotional clutter.

Discard anxiety. You’re anxious about politics. About flying. About the state of the world. About your kids. The one thing all causes of anxiety have in common? US! The airport is not making you anxious. You are making yourself anxious in the airport! Marcus Aurelius talks about this in Meditations. “Today I escaped from anxiety,” he says. “Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.” It’s a little frustrating, but it’s also freeing. Because it means you can stop it! You can choose to discard it.

Find a scene. You’re hanging out with the same people you’ve always hung out with. The same circle, the same conversations, the same comfortable group that never quite challenges you or pushes you or expects anything different from you. And then you wonder why you keep ending up in the same place. “Tell me who you consort with,” Goethe said, “and I will tell you who you are.” You need to find a scene that challenges you, inspires you, exposes you to new ideas, holds you accountable, and pushes you beyond your limits. The Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus introduced the common mess hall and required that all citizens eat together. It was harder to eat more than your fair share, more than your healthy share, when you were surrounded by your comrades in battle.

Quit your vices. There’s a story I tell in Discipline is Destiny about the physicist Richard Feynman feeling a sudden midday pull to have a drink. On the spot, Feynman gave up drinking right then and there. Nothing, he felt, should have that kind of power over him. Ask yourself: What has control over me? Is it caffeine, social media, Netflix, junk food—something more serious? I once heard addiction described as losing the freedom to abstain. Where have you lost the freedom to say no to? And how can you reclaim your power by refusing to feed that habit? If you want a happier, more fulfilling life, decide which vices you’re no longer willing to let rule you.

Do hard things. Making a life change, adopting new habits, doing anything challenging requires courage. As I write about in Courage is Calling, we can’t just hope to be brave when it counts. Courage has to be cultivated. To do the big things that scare you, start with smaller things—start with developing the ability to push yourself to do stuff you’re reluctant to do. To be able to endure the cold reception of a bold idea, start with enduring a cold shower. To be able to step forward when the stakes are high, regularly do that when the stakes are low. To be able to embrace the discomfort of a major life change, accustom yourself to minor discomforts. We treat the body rigorously, Seneca said, so that it may not be disobedient to the mind. We push ourselves in little ways so the big ways stop seeming quite so big, quite so out of character.

Don’t be ashamed to ask for help. Whenever I speak to military groups, I like to share one of my favorite lines from Meditations: “Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?” I love how Marcus Aurelius delivers that line—with a shrug. So what? There’s no shame in needing help. Whether it’s therapy, asking for advice, or hiring someone to support you, seeking help is often the key to breakthroughs, growth, and success. Tim Ferriss has a great question that ties into this: What would this look like if it were easy? Often, the answer involves creating support systems or finding the right kind of help. Resetting your life isn’t something you have to do alone.

Get back up when you fall. It’s wonderfully fitting that in both the Zen tradition and the Bible, we have a version of the proverb about falling down seven times and getting up eight. Marcus Aurelius said it was inevitable to be jarred by circumstances, but the key was to get back the rhythm as quickly as possible, to come back to yourself, rather than giving in.

Be kind to yourself. The Stoic philosopher Cleanthes was once walking through the streets of Athens when he came across a man berating himself for some failure. Seeing how upset he was, Cleanthes—normally one to mind his own business—could not help himself but to stop and say kindly, “Remember, you’re not talking to a bad man.” Often, the desire for a reset comes packaged with self-contempt, with some judgment of the version of us who got off track. But this isn’t about beating yourself up. After a lifetime of study of Stoicism, this is how Seneca came to judge his own growth: “What progress have I made?” he wrote. “I have begun to be a friend to myself.” Be kind to yourself. Celebrate your decision to make a change, to get back on track, to make yourself better. That’s what friends do.

Go the f*ck to sleep. All the other habits and practices listed here become irrelevant if you don’t have the energy and clarity to do them. We have to follow the advice of a book I love to read to my kids: Go the F*ck to Sleep! In the military, they speak of sleep discipline—meaning it’s something you have to be good at, you have to be conscious of, something you can’t let slip. We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person knows this and guards it carefully. A smart person knows that getting their 7-8 hours of sleep every night does not negatively affect their output, it contributes crucially to their best work.

Remember you are going to die. Shakespeare said that every third thought should be of our grave. Perhaps that’s too much. One thought per day is plenty. The point isn’t to be morbid, but to remember that you are mortal. How much time do we waste on things that don’t matter? And why? Because we think we can afford it! Memento Mori. You will die. Live while you can. Live your life as if you have died and come back and all of this is extra. I keep a coin in my pocket to remind me of this and touch it at least once a day. Death doesn’t make life pointless but rather purposeful. And fortunately, we don’t have to nearly die to tap into this.

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Those are some things I come back to whenever I need a reset.

If you’re ready to take your own efforts to the next level, I’d love for you to join me in the ​Spring Forward Challenge​ from Daily Stoic.

It’s packed with powerful exercises rooted in the best Stoic insights and strategies, and thousands of people around the world will be participating.

Sign up at ​dailystoic.com/spring​—we start on March 20th. I hope to see you there, ready to clear out the clutter and make room for what truly matters.

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Are You Living or Just Existing?

Spring is the most beautiful of the seasons. Suddenly, after a dreary winter, the colors come back. The birds are out. The days last longer. The breeze is light and the air is cool.

But as Phillip Larkin’s poem reminds us, beneath this turning of the seasons is a bittersweet truth.

The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief

The inherent grief is the passage of time. It’s a painful truth, the poem points out, written in the rings of the tree. Winter is dead and over…and all of us a little more so, too.

This notion serves as a gentle nudge, reminding us of the preciousness of every moment. It urges us not merely to exist but to truly live, to seize each season and extract its full potential.

Even though we can’t control time or slow it down, even though we can’t control external forces and external events—we can control ourselves, so we can control how we use our time. We can control what we choose to focus on with our time. We can control who we choose to be with our time.

Maybe 2026 hasn’t gotten off to the start you’d hoped for. Maybe there were things you wanted to change or improve. Maybe there were things you wanted to let go of. Maybe you wanted to clear out the mental and physical clutter you’ve accumulated over the last year.

Don’t write the year off just yet.

It’s not too late to course-correct and reset. Think about how much of a difference the next 10 months could have on your life if you were thriving, not just surviving. If you were fully in control of yourself, instead of letting life and external circumstances control you. If you made intentional choices, instead of letting the chips fall where they may.

The 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge is designed to bring a fresh sense of clarity and purpose to your life—to help you take back valuable time in your life and refocus on how to use it to improve yourself and the world around you. It’s a 10-day series of actionable challenges you’ll take on one day at a time.

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You’ll gain practical tools to:

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

Each morning, you’ll receive a different Stoic-inspired challenge—a clear exercise or method that you can put to use in your life right away.

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As a participant, you’ll receive:

  • 10 days of challenges built around Stoic principles
  • Invites to 2 LIVE Q&As with Ryan Holiday
  • Exclusive access to our members-only platform
  • Printable progress tracker

As Seneca reminds us, “We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest.”

The choice is yours:

Will you let another season of growth march forward without you?

Will you let this time be lost to you forever as you stay in the same unfulfilling rut?

Or will you commit to just ten days of self-improvement—a chance to reset, refocus, and renew?

The 2026 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge starts March 20, 2026. Sign up today!

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It’s Scary…But In A Good Way

Only Eight Days Left…  ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

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Change is hard. That’s why we avoid it.

It’s easier when things stay the same. When we have familiar ways and routines. Our morning coffee. Our job the way we learned it. Where no news is good news.

Change, on the other hand, requires adjustment. It requires acceptance. It requires us to change.

So naturally, yeah, we avoid it. We even fear it. But as Marcus Aurelius points out to those of us who are frightened by change: Nothing could exist without it.

You know what else change is? It’s growth. Or at least, it is the opportunity for it.

Without change, we stagnate. Our minds grow complacent, ignorant to new ideas. Our bodies grow weak from disuse. We remain stuck. We, as part of the world, part of nature, part of the logos, need to change to maintain our well-being.

With the new cycle of spring, of regrowth and renewal, finally upon us, it’s time to change. It’s time to listen to the rhythm of the seasons, to begin afresh, to grow back stronger than before.

That’s why we can’t wait to take on the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge, and we hope you join us. Designed to help you reset your life, renew your motivation, and refocus on what’s important, it’s a 10-day series of actionable challenges you’ll tackle one day at a time.

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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.

Join me and thousands of Stoics all over the world as we take the challenge to clear up, clean out, and change our lives this year.

As a participant, you’ll receive:

  • 10 days of challenges built around the most effective Stoic principles
  • Invites to 2 LIVE Q&As with Ryan Holiday
  • Exclusive access to a members-only platform
  • Printable progress tracker

Sign up for the Daily Stoic 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge now! We start March 20th—can’t wait to see you in there.

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Here’s How You Take Back Your Time

Only Seven Days Left…  ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

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As winter fades and spring emerges, it’s a good time to pause and reflect. Where did the time go? It feels like just yesterday we were bundled up against the cold, digging out of the snow and ice. Now, the days are getting longer, and the air feels warmer.

We talked recently about Phillip Larkin’s beautiful poem about the changing of the seasons and how their circular renewal contains within them a kind of finality. Winter is over—this last winter is over forever. Those cold winter afternoons when you didn’t want to go outside? When you didn’t want to do much of anything? When instead, you waited for the temperature to go up, you binge-watched some shows, you doomscrolled the news or social media? You weren’t killing time…that was time killing you.

Seneca reminded himself that death is not this thing in the future, but something that is happening now. It is always happening. It is the ticking hand of the clock. It is the spring flowers. It is the fall harvest. It is the summer rain. It is the first snow of the year.

This idea is a reminder that each moment is precious. It tells us to wake up and really live, not just watch time go by. To embrace the longer days and make the most of them.

This time of year is when we start to think of spring cleaning, but how many of us get our lives in order? Not just our physical spaces, but our minds, our routines, our time? Think of how you spent the last week. Were those seven days as efficient as they could be? Did you waste time? Were things more complicated than necessary? Did you say “yes” to things you didn’t really want to do?

Were you, like so many people, stuck in the disheartening news cycle, unsure of what you could do, unsure of how to get unstuck and take action?

The 2026 Daily Stoic 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge was created to help you refresh your spirit, refocus on the most important things you can do, and renew your motivation. After a winter like the one we just went through, we all need a little push to take our time back. We all need a little hope and a little momentum to get us going again—towards making every moment count and becoming the version of ourselves we know we can be.

Each morning for 10 days, starting on the first day of Spring (March 20th), you’ll receive a different Stoic-inspired challenge: a clear exercise or method that you can put to use in your life right away to tackle the physical and mental clutter that’s holding you back from your personal goals. You’ll learn how to attack 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 don’t have to write off 2026 yet. You can walk away from this winter with clarity, with renewed purpose, leaving the physical and mental clutter behind. And you can do it alongside a supportive community that shares your same goals.

Join the Spring Forward Challenge

Head over to dailystoic.com/spring to learn more and sign yourself up for the 2026 Daily Stoic 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge now! We start March 20th.

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Your Takeaways of the Week

The events unfolding around the world this winter have made things feel heavier than usual for all of us.

That’s why we're doing a reset—to refresh our spirit, refocus on what’s most important, and renew our 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.


PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:

Our children aren't just observing our daily routines—they're being taught what it means to be an adult from our example.

Read: Are You Modeling This for Them?


YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

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Over on the Daily Dad YouTube channel, Ryan shares the best parenting wisdom shared by podcast guests.

I’m just trying to find one little thing, one little insight that can make me better at what is, I think, ultimately our most important job.
Watch the full video here:
Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

This week on The Daily Dad Podcast, a reminder to cherish the present:

How easy it can be in the midst of this, especially when you're thinking of the next milestone, the next obligation, the next grade, to miss what is happening now, which is to say, their childhood.
Listen to the full episode:
How Much Is Already Gone?

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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:

Buried violence is just a perennial bulb that is fertilized by fear and watered by insecurity.

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson


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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.

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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:

“Watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools.”

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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This Is How We Get Death Wrong

Look around. People are rushing everywhere.  ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

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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.

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The Diet That Is Making You Miserable

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.

So choose wisely.

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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!

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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.

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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.

Head over to dailystoic.com/spring to join us now! We get started in less than 24 hours.

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

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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.

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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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