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What Is Your Anxiety Costing You?
What Is Your Anxiety Costing You?

What Is Your Anxiety Costing You?

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Ryan Holiday
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Oct 9, 2020
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Welcome to the Daily stoic or each day. We read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength inside wisdom necessary for living good life
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each. One of these passages is based
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on the 2000 year old philosophy that is guided some of History's Greatest men and women form or you can visit us daily stoic.com
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What is your anxiety cost and you you
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worry you get stressed you want to get there early you want it to go? Well, you don't want anything bad to happen to your loved ones to you to anyone in the tunnel vision of your anxiety. These are all the things that you can think about. They consume you they change you they overwhelm you but can you right now in the calm of morning when you are not anxious take a minute to step back. Think about what your anxiety costs you think about it on.
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Slowly and painfully think of the arguments it's created think of the Dead time it left you with at the airport think of the things it made you say no to the things that might have been so much fun think of the reputation it gave you think of the damage. It has done to your relationships to your self-confidence to your ability to enjoy life. One of the most wonderful passages in meditations is where Marcus Aurelius looks at his own troubles with worry and fear and says today I escaped my anxiety or rather. I
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Guarded it for it is within me. Your anxiety is within you worse. It is eating at you and harming you it does not make your life better know it comes at the expense of life, which is why we
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must specify You Can Let It Go not let it control us not let it take from us the things that we can never get back. And if you struggle with Stress and Anxiety as I do as Marcus did invite you to check out our daily stoics lay your stress challenge. It's 12 days of stoic inspired exercises.
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Sizes to help you manage the Stress and Anxiety not just it's going on in the world right now with this pandemic, but I think for all time is a real strategies. You can build into your life that have helped some of the Great's of History manage. I think times and situations that are even more stressful than what we're in right now check that out at Daily Stoke.com stress, or if your daily still life member remember you get our challenges for free. You can check that out daily stoic life.com.
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