Stoic day
A page a day: the hours beside the morning and evening Stoic pages, the dichotomy of control, memento mori and a commonplace book.
Two days of the same daily page, side by side.
Opens a daily journal of your own with this as its page for every day, from next month for three months. Change anything. No account needed to try it.
Hours: By the hour in short rows, 6 AM to 10 PM
On this day
- 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.
- Memento MoriFifty-two circles, one for each week of the year, filled in as the weeks pass. Seneca and Marcus Aurelius both wrote about keeping death in mind so that time is spent well.
- 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.
Design it once. Memari repeats it for every day you choose, each one dated, ready to print at home or as a bound book.