The Daily Stoic - A Few Sacred Minutes

Episode Date: December 14, 2021

Ryan explains the importance of daily reflection and the role it plays in life, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.Get signed copies of Stillness Is The Key in the Daily Stoic Store!Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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For more, you can visit us at dailystoward.com. A few sacred minutes. It was in the morning, or it was at night. Marcus Aurelius took time for himself, whatever was happening, wherever he was, to sit and think and write. Bran Blanchard marvels at what Marcus was able to accomplish there in the midnight dimness, alone with his pages and his thoughts. Sennaqa, we know, took the time in the evenings. After his wife had gone to sleep, he reflected on the day past. He wrote his letters. He examined himself. What about you? Do you take this time? James Clear, author of the wonderful bestseller,

Atomic Habits, told me on the Daily Stoke podcast recently that since becoming a father, he has carved out two sacred hours in the morning to do his writing. Sometimes he gets more time, but nevertheless, and those two hours to determine whether he has had a good day or a waste a day, whether he was productive in making progress or whether he was slacking. A few minutes or a few hours in the morning at night or in the middle of the day, this idea of sacred time is important. You have to carve it out.

You have to stick to it like clockwork. You need to use the stillness to be active. You need to focus. Lock in to your philosophy, to your work, to your self-examination. Of course, this isn't the only time you'll need. It's just the minimum. So make sure you give it or take it for yourself. This is obviously what I try to do in my own life. I've talked about my daily routine all the time. But it's also what I was writing about in my book Stillness is the key, which is all about

slowing down in those critical sacred moments to do what you really need to do, really locking in on the task in front of you. All my best work has come from that, even writing something like this email came from a few minutes of that sort of stillness, that locked in time, that focus. If that's something you feel like, you need more time of inner life, maybe the book would be helpful to you. Check out stillness is the key. Anywhere books are sold. There's an audio book version, there's ebook version, there's physical version. You can even get signed copies in the Daily Stoke

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