30 days of Stoic practice
A practice a day in plain words, the morning's preparation, what is in your control, the evening review and a commonplace book, with a look back every seventh day.
Anyone curious about Stoicism who would rather practise it than read about it.
Order as is goes straight to the order form, where you choose the days, binding and address and see the price before you pay. Change it first opens the whole book in the editor. No account needed for either.
Front pages
The thirty practices to tick off, days done, why, where you start and finish, and your rules for living.
- The Plan (tracker)The Plan: 1. List what is up to you today, and what isn't; 2. Catch one judgement; say what happened without it; 3. Rehearse one thing that could go wrong today; 4. Eat plainly, or go without one comfort; 5. Before you react, wait one breath; 6. Do one duty you've been putting off; 7. Look back, where did you keep your calm; 8. See today's trouble from far above; 9. Be kind to someone who is hard to like; 10. Spend an hour without your phone; 11. Name a fear; write down the worst case; 12. Thank someone for a thing you take for granted; 13. Take a cold shower or a long walk; 14. Look back, where did you lose your calm; 15. Accept one thing you can't change; 16. In one conversation, listen more than you speak; 17. You will die. What matters today; 18. Ask what someone you admire would do; 19. Give away something you won't miss; 20. Admit one mistake out loud; 21. Look back, what has changed; 22. Treat an insult as information; 23. Do your work well with no one watching; 24. Picture losing something you love, then enjoy it; 25. Keep one promise to yourself; 26. Plan tomorrow tonight, then let it go; 27. Spend time outside and notice its order; 28. Look back, where are you stuck; 29. Write one rule of your own for living; and 30. Read back the month; keep three practices, a row each, marked across the days.
- Days Done (30-Day Challenge)Thirty marks to fill in one at a time, one for each time you do a habit you want to try.
- Why I'm Doing This (note box)A box headed Why I'm Doing This, ruled with lines, to write in.
- At the Start (questions)At the Start: what upsets me most often and what I want to change, with lines to answer.
- At the End (questions)At the End: what upsets me now and the practices I'll keep, with lines to answer.
- My Rules for Living (note box)A box headed My Rules for Living, ruled with lines, to write in.
Every day
A page a day: the hours beside the morning page, what is in your control and your reading, that day's practice, the evening review and a commonplace book.
- Stoic Morning PageThree questions for the start of the day: what is in your control, what obstacle to expect, and which virtue you will need. Marcus Aurelius opens Book 2 of the Meditations by preparing himself for the difficult people he will meet that day.
- Dichotomy of ControlTwo columns, for what is up to you and what is not. Epictetus opens the Enchiridion with this division.
- Reading (note box)A box headed Reading, ruled with lines, to write in.
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- Stoic Evening ReviewThe nightly review Seneca describes in On Anger, with three questions adapted from the Pythagorean verses Epictetus quotes in Discourses 3.10.
- Commonplace BookPassages worth keeping, each with where it came from and a thought of your own. The old habit of the commonplace book, a page at a time.
The whole book, laid out.
Every page dated and ready to print at home or as a bound book. Move, resize or take out anything, and Memari lays out every page after.