You heard people celebrating. You saw the ball drop. The calendar turned over.
How many days led up to this? At least 365, but you could say that thousands of them, centuries of days, led up to this moment, led us here to this bright, shining moment of the future.
Twenty Twenty Six.
Here it is…in all its underwhelming glory.
"So this is the new year," goes the Death Cab for Cutie song, "and I don't feel any different."
It doesn't feel any different because we are not any different. We got up at the same time, ate the same breakfast, went straight to our phones, were annoyed by the same things, had the same attitude, resigned ourselves to the same world. We are already repeating old patterns, going into the new year like those weary gladiators in the Colosseum that Marcus Aurelius talked about, determined to keep on living the lives we've been living, even though we're bedraggled and degraded, "torn half to pieces," he said, "covered in blood and gore, and still pleading to be held over till tomorrow…to be bitten and clawed again."
C'mon.
Why?
Why not try something new? Why not really get after it this year? What about if, instead of fighting against the current, we fought instead "to be the person that philosophy tried to make us?"
Why not?
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That's what thousands and thousands of Stoics all over the world are doing right now, kicking off the New Year with the 2026 Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge. We've already started, but it's not too late. If you join now, you'll still receive all the challenges, access to the LIVE Q&As, and access to the private community of other folks participating in the challenge.
Start each morning for the first 3 weeks of the year with something that challenges you to practice your philosophy, to start the steps to becoming the best version of yourself.
Real change isn't about resolutions. It isn't about hacks. It's about the commitment you make to being different, and thankfully you don't have to do it alone.
We've put together 21 actionable challenges, presented as one email per day, built around the best, most effective wisdom in Stoic philosophy. It's 3 weeks of waking up each morning, taking the challenge, and having the discipline to finally start becoming who you wish to be. Who you know you can be.
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Don't wait any longer. Don't keep putting this off. Don't let this opportunity—the opportunity to kick start real transformation in your life—slip away.
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