Journal // 13th May 2024

journalStoicTraining

May 13

Written By Jason Fisk

On this day I…

Friday 10th May 2024

Third workout on week one.

Sore as hell, and frankly didn’t want to do it at all.

Yet I forced myself to get on with it.

“I’d rather do the workout at 50% than not do it at all.”

Monday 13th May.

Up with the birds. Feels good to rise before 6 am and feel complete.

I need to learn to listen more and speak/interupt less. “Two ears one mouth, we should listen more than we speak.”

I need to be more relaxed about the things outside of my control.

I need to shift my bartender persona more in that direction. Glass glass, give advice. Be a sage, a philosopher who serves drinks, but does not part-take.

Be someone who guests want to talk to, but also will let them be on queue.

I need to think before I speak. The better at this I get the shorter the distance between thought and words should be.

I need to develop a sharper mind.

A certain sense of relief comes after saying ‘No’ to an invite from a friend. I can continue going about my business and I don’t have to lie about not wanting to go to wherever it was I was being invited.

Of course, I don’t give the ‘No’ with malice or scorn, but with a smile and a thank you.

Like most mornings I didn’t want to rise from beneath my covers but as Marcus Aurelius says “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of?”

Even now, knowing that I have a workout planned, something that will take up one hour of my day, and knowing full well that I will waste more time than that this evening, I still hesitate to do it. Even though I know it’s for my benefit.

Why are things that are good for us so hard to do? I wonder.

The path of least resistance is, well, easier. Should I not then lie down and do nothing? Or maybe I should give my mind and my body a workout daily, so I might better have use of them later.

The above was all taken from my journal. I don’t make entries very often, but today I kinda just let all this out. Felt good