The Daily Stoic - Make Beautiful Choices

Episode Date: April 29, 2019

Epictetus says that “if your choices are beautiful, so too will you be.” It’s simple and it’s true. You are what your choices make you, nothing more and nothing less. Today will present you with plenty of opportunities to choose between—to choose beauty or ugliness; kindness or selfishness; mercy or vengeance; serenity or anger. There will be little choices—what you eat, how you talk to people, whether you pick up the television remote or a book, what you think about—and there will be bigger choices too: whether you stand up for what’s right, whether you reach down to help someone who needs it, what kind of work you do, what standards you hold yourself to. It’s often easier to make the ugly, selfish, vengeful angry choice. To choose to give into your temper or to keep doing things the way you’ve always done them. Beautiful choices—like physical fitness or perfect skin—are rarely as effortless as they seem. No, there is a regimen behind them. It takes exercise, it takes discipline, it takes sacrifice. But when you see the results? Well, it can take your breath away.See 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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You are what your choices make you. Nothing more and nothing less. Today we'll present you with plenty of opportunities to choose. To choose between beauty and ugliness, kindness or selfishness, mercy or revenge, serenity or anger. There will be little choices, what you eat, how you talk to people, whether you pick up the television remote or a book, what you think about. And there will be bigger choices too, whether you stand up for what's right, whether you reach

down to help someone who needs it, kind of work you do, kind of standards, you hold yourself too. It's often easier to make the ugly selfish, vengeful, angry choice, to choose to give in to your temper or to keep doing things the way you've always done them. Beautiful choices, like physical fitness or perfect skin, are rarely as effortless as they seem. No, there is a regimen behind them. It takes exercise, takes discipline, takes sacrifice. But when you see the results, well, it can take your breath away. If you like the podcast that we do here and you want to get it via email every morning,

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