Daily Stoic Entry #4: Am I Seeing Clearly? Acting Generously? Accepting What I Can't Change?

January 4th 2022

Follow along with my personal daily stoic journal, unfiltered, unedited (except for some spelling mistakes). Title prompts are taken from The Daily Stoic Journal.

Morning Reflection:

Reaffirm your clarity through meditation, I do not posses the clarity for many aspects in my life yet. However meditation helps in acting from a place of a calm mind.
One of the tasks from The Daily Laws by Robert Greene is to reconnect with childhood inclinations and obsessions. This exercise might provide further clarity for a larger direction, but I don't see it clearly yet. I have to accept that uncertainty for now. A new start at the a new job brings that unpredictability. I feel a little lost and intimidated since there's no project to jump on. Relax about this, your coworkers said it will take time to adjust, take their advice. They will help you, accept that generosity.

Evening Reflection:

Sometimes you just need to let go of concepts and structural thinking to gain clarity. I felt more at ease in my mind during the yoga session tonight. Something so simple as a stretched painful muscle and accepting that feeling and break through it is the very essence of accepting something you can't change, physical discomfort. I think one thing that I'm realizing that most of my healthy mental states are achieved when I'm physically active and the moments shortly thereafter, as well as quiet meditation, when you find a peaceful quiet mind.