It Doesn’t Take Long to Do This | Mark Manson's Reading List (From Ryan Holiday)

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. It doesn't take long to do this. It was a bad year. You dropped some balls. You picked up some bad habits. You let some good habits slip. You wasted time on stuff that doesn't matter. You made plans for a creative project, but no progress on them. But just because that's true doesn't mean it has to continue that way. As Marx Rose writes in Meditations, now they see you as a beast, a monkey, but in a week, they'll think you're a god if you rediscover your beliefs and honor the logos. A week a week is all it takes to turn it around. Maybe it's more, maybe it's less, but but the point is it doesn't take long to get going in the right direction again. It doesn't take long to turn things around, to pick up the balls you dropped, to replace one bad habit with a better one, to recommit to your principles and begin acting like the person you know you can be. And that's what we built the daily stoic new year, new you challenge around. It's just three weeks, twenty one days to start the year right, to create momentum, to transform you from whoever you are right now to who you're capable of being in 2026. Twenty one days of stoic inspired challenges, one per day to help you be what you're capable of being. You could be one way, one thing right now, but it doesn't have to stay that way, and it doesn't take much to get going in the other direction. If one week is all it takes, imagine what you can do in three weeks. I know that I have personally been transformed by the challenges we do each and every year. This is almost the tenth year of the challenge. I have habits and practices that I do each and every year because of the daily stoke new year new challenge, and I'd love to see you in there. And, just a little note, if you wanna do this challenge or any of our challenges or courses throughout the rest of the year, I just sign up for Daily Stoic Life. As part of this, you get all the challenges for free. So you could sign up there at dailystoiclife.com, or just go to dailystoic.com/challenge to sign up for the twenty twenty six Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge. It's gonna be awesome. I can't wait to see it in there, …