Greetings Readers!
Today’s meditation is Part VI of our Perennial Habits course. Thus far, we’ve discussed: How to Change When Change is Hard (Part I), How to “Think” About Change (Part II), The Paradox of Small Changes (Part III), Becoming Every Day (Part IV), and What Do You Want Out of Life (Part V).
It was great connecting with everyone at our last virtual event (I’ll release the recording next week). Our next meetup (May 10th at 6:00 pm EST) is going to focus on The Art (and Practice) of Stoic Wisdom (Register here).
The Stoic philosopher Epictetus puts a line down the middle of life; on one side is what is under our complete control — and on the other is what is not under our complete control. He called this the chief task in life — to identify and separate matters so that we can say clearly to ourselves which are externals not under our control and which have to do with the choices we actually control.
As we’ll discover throughout this course, similar to the cardinal virtues, many of our habits are interconnected and work in concert. For example, our last meditation, What Do You Want Out of Life?, discussed contemplating and creating clarity around what truly matters to us.
