It’s Time: The Daily Stoic 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge

Spring is here! While most of us unthinkingly set our clocks forward (or have devices that do it for us), how many of us take any steps to spring our lives forward? March is when we start to think of spring cleaning, but how many of us get our whole houses in order? Not just our physical spaces, but our minds, our routines, our assumptions? Think of how you spent the last week. Were those seven days as efficient or productive as they could be? Or did you waste time? Were things more complicated than necessary? Did you fall back on bad habits? Were you, like so many people, still stuck in the doldrums of winter? The 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge is set up to push you to examine those parts of your life, to examine your choices, to examine your relationships and move you closer to living your best life. It was Marcus Aurelius who said “This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.”It’s up to you whether you’re going to let those . New Year’s resolutions dissolve into missed opportunities , whether you’re going to keep doing things the way you’ve always done them. OR, you could give yourself 10 days of improvement and a runway for true, sustainable change. Challenge yourself to spring forward to be the person you know you can be.[Buy Now]The 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge is a set of ten all-new actionable challenges — presented at a pace of one per day — built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy. Ten challenges designed to help you bring a sense of clarity and purpose to your life. Each day you will be presented with a challenge that will help you:Simplify your lifeGain control over your timeFace your fearsExpand your point of viewsAbandon harmful habitsDo more with your daysThese won’t be pie-in-the-sky, theoretical discussions but clear, immediate exercises and methods you can start right now. We’ll tell you exactly what to do, how to do it, and why it works — and we’ll give you strategies for maintaining this way of living for not just the next year, but for your whole life. What is gaining back a few hours per day worth? What would you give for the key to unshackle you from the habits holding you back? How great would it feel to belong to a dedicated community — part of a tribe — of people just like you, struggling, growing, and making that satisfying progress towards the kind of person they know they can be? Toward the person who knows, lives, loves and appreciates the good life.[Buy Now]Sign up for the 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge now and see what you’re capable of doing and who you are capable of becoming. Here is what you’ll get if you sign up:10 custom challenges delivered daily (nearly 15,000 words of all new original content)10 custom video messages from bestselling author Ryan Holiday. A printable 10-day calendar with custom illustrations to track your progressGroup Slack channel to communicate and motivate other participantsWrap-up live Q&A with Ryan HolidayIn addition, for all of you who are deep divers and intellectual thread-pullers, each day’s challenge will include a compendium of further reading that will equip you with the foundational wisdom upon See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 📢 Share | ⚙️ Manage Subscription

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• 0:06Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to The Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living the good life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com. It's time. The Daily Stoic 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge is here. Actually, spring is here. And while most of us unthinkingly set our clocks forward, or have devices that do that for us, how many of us actually take steps to spring our lives forward?

• 0:48Ryan Holiday?

  March is when we start to think of spring cleaning, but how many of us get our whole houses in order? Not just our physical spaces, but our minds, our routines, and our assumptions? Think of how you spent the last week. Were those seven days as efficient or as productive as they could be? Or did you waste a lot of time? Were things more complicated than necessary? Did you fall back on bad habits? Were you, like so many people, still stuck in the doldrums of winter? The 10-Day Spring Forward Challenge is basically designed to help you examine those parts of your life, to examine your choices, to examine your relationships, to move you closer to living your best life. It was Marcus Aurelius who said, "You could be good today, but

• 1:33Ryan Holiday?

  instead you choose tomorrow." It's up to you whether you're going to let those New Year's resolutions dissolve into missed opportunities, whether you're going to keep doing things the way you've always done them, or you could give yourself a 10-day sprint of improvement and a runway for true sustainable change. You could challenge yourself to spring forward to be the person you know you could be. The 10 Day Spring Forward Challenge is a set of 10 all-new actionable challenges, presented at a pace of one per day, built around the best, most timeless Stoic wisdom in this philosophy. 10 challenges designed to help you bring a sense of clarity and purpose to your life. Each day, you'll be presented with a challenge that will help

• 2:17Ryan Holiday?

  you simplify, gain control over your time, face your fears, expand your point of view, abandon harmful habits, and do more with your day. These won't be pie-in-the-sky theoretical discussions, but clear, immediate exercises and methods. You can start right now. We'll tell you exactly what to do, how to do it, and why it works, and we'll give you strategies for maintaining this way of living, not just for the next year, but for your whole life. What would gaining a few hours per day be worth? What would you give for the key to unshackle you from the habits that are holding you back? How great would it feel to belong to a dedicated community, part of a tribe, people just like you, struggling, growing,

• 2:59Ryan Holiday?

  and making that satisfying progress towards the kind of person they know they can be? Toward the person who knows, lives, and loves, appreciates the good life. Here's what you'll get if you sign up. One, you get 10 custom challenges delivered daily, nearly 15,000 words of all-new content. You get 10 custom video messages from me. You get a printable 10-day calendar with custom illustrations to track your progress, a group Slack channel to communicate and motivate with other participants, and we'll do a wrap-up live Q&A with me. And if you're one of those deep divers, intellectual thread pullers, each day's challenge comes with a compendium of further reading that will equip you with the foundational

• 3:42Ryan Holiday?

  wisdom these challenges are built on, and modern research that shows the timeless truths of the lessons we're teaching. So if your question is why, and well, who said, we've got a great answer for you. So I really hope you do this challenge. I'm not gonna lie, it's going to be challenging, but it's also gonna be awesome. You just have to go to dailystoic.com/challenge to sign up. But it's only good from now until March 10th, because on March 10th, we start the challenge, and then you're out of luck until we do it again, or if we ever do it again. So sign up now, there's not a lot of time left. dailystoic.com/challenge. I'll be there, I hope to see you there. Let's get after it.