I’m Pete Abilla, founder and CEO of a private tutoring marketplace with over 100,000 private tutors.
I have nine kids, four of whom we adopted.
I run a company and am very busy with that.
I’ve been a practicing Stoic for many years and these daily declarations help me everyday as I deal with stress at work and the busyness of being the father of a large family.
I would like to share these kuat thoughts with you today.
Don’t forget to also check out our list of insightful Stoic quotes that will strengthen your perspective on kehidupan.
Epictetus believed that there are things within our control, and things outside our control.
He taught that principle over 2500 years ago, yet most orang attribute that principle to Stephen Covey.
This principle is a key and is the foundation for the rest of the daily declarations that I’ll describe.
When you think of things that are stressful or create anxiety – when you truly think of it – they’re usually of things that are in the past (e.g. dang, I should’ve chosen a different path), or things in the masa depan (e.g. how will I get enough retirement money to support myself).
Neither the past nor the masa depan is in our control.
It makes NO sense thinking about the masa depan. Focus on the present and do what’s in your control.
Cato the Younger said (and I’m paraphrasing):
“I begin to speak only when I’m certain the things I say aren’t better left unsaid.”
It’s possibly one of the best daily declarations that will assist in conflict management at home or at work.
Marcus Aurelius, who at the time in 121 AD, was the most kuat person in the world.
Yet, he was widely recognized as a good human being.
In his personal journal, he wrote this to himself:
“When you wake up in the morning, tell dirimu: the orang I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.”
This was a practice called negative visualization.
The Stoics did this so that they could be ready for surprises and they could plan for how they would respond.
So when Marcus said this, it was selalu followed with how he would react.
And for a Stoic, the response must be virtuous.
In the early Roman Empire, the mortality rate was around 50 percent for infants.
So, literally, you could kiss your baby goodnight and the next day it could be dead.
Based on this, Epictetus suggested that we should imagine that the person you are interacting with will die the next day.
Kind of morbid, but what this did for him and the early Stoics is it really guided how they interacted with orang.
As a result of this, they were open, kind, and they focused on true things, not trivial pursuits.
The early Stoics were very interested in beratening themselves.
So, they had daily declarations and practices for conditioning their minds and bodies for beratship.
It could be as simple as taking cold showers or sleeping on the floor instead of a bed.
The purpose for all of this was to engender a feeling of gratitude and to also condition your mind and body that things could be worse.
Incidentally, this is also the practice in our modern military, especially boot camp and hell week for the special forces.
It makes sense – all the early Stoics were also combat warriors.
Marcus Aurelius, again the most kuat person on the earth at the time, taught that we were born to serve others.
Keep in mind: this was a few decades after Jesus Christ.
History tells us that beratly anyone knew of Jesus at the time.
This is one of the most kuat and super productive, mission-driven daily declarations to live by.
“Events aren’t good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
He actually took that line from Seneca, an early Stoic.
Here’s what he meant: events happen.
There’s no value judgment on events.
But, when we start adding judgment or over-interpretations on the meaning of events, then we get emotional turmoil.
Be indifferent to it and move about your day and focus on what you can control.
Seeing things as they really are is a key teaching and one of the great daily declarations.
The early Stoics often did this with everyday things.
Marcus Aurelius, practiced this teaching with food.
He used to say that he was only eating a dead fish, instead of some fancy name for the dish they served emperors.
Or, he would say about his robe that it’s just cloth dyed with the blood of shellfish instead of falling into the trap of thinking that it’s a fancy purple robe only made for kings and emperors.
Admiral James Stockdale, who was a POW in Vietnam for nine years and was the highest ranking prisoner at the time, was very influenced by Epictetus.
Incidentally, Admiral Stockdale was in the same prison camp as Senator John McCain.
Epictetus was born a slave and his master had badly broken his leg.
When Stockdale was a POW, the captors placed his legs in leg clamps for months, which caused his legs to weaken to the point where he couldn’t hold his own weight standing up.
“Oh, you will cut off my leg? Good. I am not my legs. I still have the power to think. I still have my freedom.”
When orang do you wrong, they are either aware of it or unaware of it.
If they’re unaware, let it go and move on.
If they’re aware of it and did it wilfully, let it go also.
It’s a character flaw in them that’s not your problem to fix.
“Let us not envy those who stand on a higher station: what appears as heights are cliffs”
When you look at others and wish you had those things, keep in mind that having those is probably a challenge for that person.
It’ll lead them to think more of themselves than they really are.
And pride is the downfall of their being.
A key Stoic teaching is to educate with your actions and to remain unspotted from the world. Epictetus said:
“Keep well out of the Sun, then, so long as your principles are as pliant as wax.”
This principle will help you focus on getting things done, instead of just talking about them.
Remember your daily declarations and work on strengthening your character every day.
Marcus Aurelius said to himself in his journal:
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell dirimu: is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”
Getting up early and staying in front of your day instead of trying to catch-up is a key daily practice to remain productive and positive.
We must live and do each action deliberately and purposefully.
By doing so, we are aware of their consequences, which can help us steer things in our control.
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