Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And Happiness

What It Covers

Ryan Holiday shares five daily Stoic practices for living well: focusing on controllable factors, taking long walks, doing physically difficult activities, serving others, and remembering mortality to create urgency and perspective.

Key Questions Answered

• •Control allocation: Separate everything into two categories—what you control versus what you don't—then direct 100% of your energy toward controllable factors, like putting car power only on wheels touching the ground for maximum traction and impact.
• •Movement rituals: Take daily walks and spend time near water for mental clarity, as humans evolved traveling long distances. Physical movement creates rhythm that slows thinking, increases presence, and unlocks solutions that emerge during breaks from focused work.
• •Physical challenge: Complete one physically demanding activity daily—lifting weights, sprinting, cycling, or spin classes—to build the essential skill of pushing limits, which prepares you for whatever difficulties life presents and prevents sedentary lifestyle deterioration.
• •Mortality awareness: Practice memento mori by remembering you received a terminal diagnosis at birth—death is certain, timing unknown. This perspective eliminates procrastination, creates urgency for health priorities, and prevents wasting life assuming you have unlimited time remaining.