Ryan Holiday and me, at the top right corner in a live Q&A.
I started my 2025 in this way:
12/31 - an ice plunge
1/1 - Wrote down my angers and burned the list
1/2 - picked a word for the year
1/3 - Visited a cemetery: get up close with mortality
1/4 - Pick a bed time and stick with it
1/5 - 10-10-10: push ups, sit ups & squats
1/6 - A go to meal for the year.
1/7 - Let someone know you're thinking of them
1/8 - Have/start a gratitude practice, daily
1/9 - Pick up something I abandoned
1/10 - Take a long walk (no devices)
1/11 - Enjoy a 24-hour period with no phone
1/22 - Quit a social network
1/13 - Find myself a correspondent to exchange ideas/wisdom
1/14 - Steel-man something I disagree with
1/15 - Do a good turn in my community
1/16 - Eliminate a velvet rut
1/17 - Learn history of something in my daily life
1/18 - Volunteer for a cause
1/19 - Pick one ambitious work to immerse myself in this year
1/20 - Tell someone you love them
1/21 - Last Will & Testament
1/22 - Elimiate a mindless time such
1/23 - Take a forest bath (at least 30 minutes)
1/24 - Review personal finance budget
For today, I will only give you how I started the year. Tomorrow, I'll provide context, answers and the why behind it. And what I got out of it. By only giving you how I started the year, perhaps you can start it on your own. Or, create your own challenge. It is not too late. You can start today, or tomorrow. Or on Sunday. The point is to start, if you like the idea of creating personal challenges for yourself.
The above challenge was not created by me. I am in an exclusive group of individuals that practice and live by Stoic philosophy. This challenge was created by Daily Stoic and its creator Ryan Holiday. It was cool to talk with Ryan, one-on-one. More than that, what I got from the challenge. This is my 2nd year doing it and it was better than last years. Here I'll include some images of Ryan and me chatting it up. See above.