Stoic
A Stoic week ahead and week review, a theme for the week, the dichotomy of control, Franklin's thirteen virtues and a commonplace book.
Opens a weekly journal of your own with this as its weekly spread, from next month for three months. Change anything. No account needed to try it.
On this week
- Week Ahead (Stoic Morning Page)Three 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.
- Theme (note box)A box headed Theme, ruled with lines, to write in.
- Reading (note box)A box headed Reading, ruled with lines, to write in.
- Franklin's VirtuesBenjamin Franklin's thirteen virtues, Temperance to Humility, charted as he kept them in his Autobiography: a line for each virtue, a column for each day, and a spot for every fault. He gave each week to one virtue, so one course takes thirteen weeks.
- Week Review (Stoic Evening Review)The 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.
Design it once. Memari repeats it for every week you choose, each one dated, ready to print at home or as a bound book.