Failing in life is one of the hardest things we have to experience. But Standing back up after failing in life is hard as well. But there are Stoic principles that can help you stand back up and become a better version of yourself. In us, we all have the capability to experience this phoenix-like rebirth. Keep on watching.

The truth is that life is indeed hard. But as a stoic, how can we move forward while cherishing our lives and putting to good use our best potentials? How do we stop ourselves from burning out? How do we move forward in life? Check out this video.

Play stupid game, win stupid prize. You Make better choices, you get better results.

The quality of life we are living right now is the compounding consequences of our past actions. If you are not in a good place right now, the answer to your question lies in the type of decisions you made in the past.

When you look at it this way, you can either continue feeling despair and hopeless OR this pattern can give you a renewed sense of optimism.

Optimism in a sense that its never too late to change your stars. Because when you realize that your present condition is a result of your past actions, then you know that your present actions will help you design a better future. Which makes you realize that you have all the power to change your future starting now.

Its about the stoics’s psychology towards money, How they handle their finances.

To be specific, if you have multiple thousands of dollars of debt in the bank, what do stoics do to become debt-free?

Because as we all know, having a lot of debt, puts a heavy toll on our shoulders, our sanity. I had my bouts of debts in the past as well so I know how it feels to have sleepless nights, panic attacks… all because there’s this fear lingering in our head of ultimately failing in life and we are afraid of losing everything, and becoming the laughing stock of our community.

So after I embraced stoicism, I always tell myself

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Have you ever had the experience when someone told you that you are not good enough? Perhaps your partner, or family member who belittle you, your boss shouted at you… What did you feel after?

It hurts. It Stings, right?

And the truth is that words do hurt. After all, we are humans.

Then we feel bad and torture ourselves over and over again… replaying those words in our mind again and again… its either we move on or we crash and burn.

But what if there is a better way? What if you can become bullet proof to such confrontation?

Some things in life are constant, unchangeable. If you jump up, no matter how you badly wish or believe that you will fly, you wont. Because of gravity. As true as gravity is, everything in nature has a recipe.

As a person who is trying to master their mind, understanding that for every effect, there is a corresponding cause… for every fruit, there is a designated se ed. An apple seed would soon bear apples, orange seed, oranges. You cant expect an apple seed to bear oranges. That does not work that way.And that is the rule of nature.

Stoics believed that the highest good is when we live in accordance with nature.

And as with all pursuits, every outcomes have prescribed recipes… or seeds…

If you want others to treat you better, treat them with respect in the first place. If you want to get rich, or stay poor, there is also a recipe to that as well.

So if the suffering comes from the mind, then what should we do?

Emperor Marcus Aurelius stated that the impediment to action, advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

If suffering comes from the mind, then the antidote to suffering can also come from the mind itself. Its like how scientists creates antivenoms... They have to first figure out what type of venom is inflicting the injury… then they go from there and create the antivenom serum.

So what is the antidote to suffering? Two things...

What is the universal truth of life? I for one have been searching for this answer for a very long time now. But after years and years of searching, I finally realized that the universal truth of life is suffering and pain.

And suffering and pain are all because we have a mind of our own. A mind that is always simulating negative situations, reacting to pain, fear, envy, anger, frustrations… thus adding more sufferings along the way.

When a person says he or she wants freedom, what they actually mean is they want to be free from the clutches of their mind.

Thats why stoics focus all their energy by first embracing that pain and suffering is the universal truth to life. And once they do that, they focus all their power in finding the antidote to such sufferings. And thats where the dichotomy of control comes in.

Stoics differentiate the factors in a given situation which they have control vs the ones they have no control over.