Written by HANNAH BRAIME “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” —Steve Maraboli Knowing the difference between the things we can control and the things we can’t is a topic that comes up frequently, both in […]
The Stoics were not perfect. Nothing illustrates this more than Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Why would Marcus have to write reminders about not losing your temper or not wasting your time if he was not guilty of those very things? Why would he remind himself that the people he was going to deal with that day would […]
“We suffer more from imagination than from reality.” — Seneca The 21st century has been described as “The Age of Anxiety,” “The United States of Stress,” “The World of Worry.” The implication is that what we are experiencing—pandemics, terrorism, political and economic turmoil, existential angst, and let’s stop there—is unique, unprecedented, uncharted. News headlines, tweets, […]
The great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would describe his formula for human greatness as amor fati—a love of fate. “That one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backwards, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it….but love it.” The Stoics were not only familiar with this attitude but they embraced […]
What do nearly all successful entrepreneurs have in common? They embrace the abundance around them. An abundance mindset is the one thing that allows us to turn weaknesses into opportunities and transform negative experiences into positive ones. Here, we’ll look at abundance mindsets vs. scarcity mindsets and why having the right mindset is more important […]
You want this to be over right? When can this end, when can life go back to normal? We’ve said this a million times to ourselves. Not just during the pandemic, but countless times in ordinary circumstances. When we were excited for Christmas to come already, when we were waiting for a friend who called […]
The secret from Marcus Aurelius for when we get criticized or insulted or judged by other people? He said we should look inside their souls. “Get inside him,” Marcus wrote. “Look at what sort of person he is. You’ll find you don’t need to strain to impress him.” His point was that too often we blindly […]
