If you're reading this, you've probably seen the pattern before.
Someone online has found the one habit that will change your life. A one-minute reel, a catchy soundbite, a neat explanation of why your life feels the way it does.
Follow them, sign up to their course, and it's just three easy steps to sunshine and rainbows.
So you try it. For a week or two you feel motivated. Then life gets busy, the novelty fades, and before long you're back where you started.
And you're left with a nagging feeling that you've fallen for yet another marketing tactic.
That's demoralising. I know.
But it has given you something useful: a strong bullshit detector. Good.
That is exactly who I'm looking for.
So let me be honest with you.
You don't actually need me.
Everything you need to live a good life has already been worked out.
The Stoics and the Buddhist traditions have spent thousands of years figuring out how to reduce unnecessary suffering and build purpose, meaning and happiness.
Their ideas have helped millions of people, across cultures and centuries. If you were willing to read the literature, learn the principles and follow through with the practice, you'd be fine on your own.
The problem is that almost nobody can. Few people have the time to read hundreds of books. And the practices don't always fit a modern life.
Let's be honest: you're not going to become a monk, and you won't spend hours every day in quiet reflection.
That is precisely where I come in.
