Everything Is Changing. Are You? | Stake Your Own Claim

Welcome to the daily stoic podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic inspired meditation designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women, help you learn from them, to follow in their example, and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. For more, visit dailystoic.com. Everything is changing. Are you? Things falling apart, traditions crumbling, new technologies, new threats, new trends. Welcome to ancient Rome. Welcome to the past, the present, and the future. It has always been this way, you understand. Change and flux constantly remakes the world, Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations during an indisputably tumultuous period of history, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. Things were confusing and difficult, sure, but he understood that things were always changing, always in crisis, always being disrupted, always becoming something new. The question then is not how do we stop this? The question is how are we going to change and adapt to it? We don't need to be scared of change, the Stoics remind us, because we ourselves are products of change. And if we want to survive and thrive in this moment we're in, we're gonna need to keep on changing and evolving. It is the only way. Whether it's AI or economic instability or conflict or climate change, whether it's big macro issues or stuff in your personal life, a marriage coming to an end, a baby coming home from the hospital, a new job, the loss of a loved one. 2026 is gonna come at you fast as every year does. It will bring challenges, and it will demand changes. It will not take no for an answer. You are going to need to change. You are going to need to grow. You're going to need to adjust and adapt and evolve. So why don't you get started on that right now? I start every single year with a bunch of changes with a bunch of deliberate challenges. That is the daily stoic new year new you challenge, which is twenty one days of stoic inspired challenges that helps me become better at the start of every year, and 2026 is no different. We've been working hard on this thing for months, and I'm really excited about it. And I hope you will join me and thousands of other stoics all over the world doing the daily stoic new year new you challenge. It's gonna start on January 1, but you can sign up right now and, hopefully get ready to tackle a new year before it is here. I'd love to see you in there. You can sign up right now at dailystoic.com/challenge. It's gonna be awesome, but it starts here really soon. It's gonna start on January 1, so you gotta sign …