Philosophies for Life 136: How To Keep Your New Year's Resolutions - Epictetus (Stoicism)
Dec 31, 2025
19:49
In this podcast, we will be talking about The 10 ways to keep our New Year’s Resolutions from the writings of Epictetus. Epictetus was one of the most influential teachers of the later years of the school of Stoicism. So here are 10 ways from Epictetus’s discourses, that will help you in keeping your New Year’s resolutions.
So here are 10 ways to keep our New Year’s Resolutions from the writings of Epictetus -
01. Keep your resolutions simple
02. Routine is everything
03. Replace bad habits
04. Don’t Share your resolutions with everyone
05. Give no excuses
06. Don’t wait for other people’s validation
07. Reward yourself
08. Review your day
09. Never Ever Ever give up
10. Always keep evolving
Hope you enjoyed listening to this podcast and find these insights on keeping New Year’s resolutions helpful. .
Epictetus was a Greek/Roman philosopher of the Hellenistic period. He managed to overcome huge obstacles in developing from a crippled Roman slave to become one of the most popular and sought after philosophers of his time.
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. Even though it is over 2000 years old, more and more people are discovering how Stoicism is not only relevant to modern times, but can be applied in very simple, yet strong ways.
So here are 10 ways to keep our New Year’s Resolutions from the writings of Epictetus -
01. Keep your resolutions simple
02. Routine is everything
03. Replace bad habits
04. Don’t Share your resolutions with everyone
05. Give no excuses
06. Don’t wait for other people’s validation
07. Reward yourself
08. Review your day
09. Never Ever Ever give up
10. Always keep evolving
Hope you enjoyed listening to this podcast and find these insights on keeping New Year’s resolutions helpful. .
Epictetus was a Greek/Roman philosopher of the Hellenistic period. He managed to overcome huge obstacles in developing from a crippled Roman slave to become one of the most popular and sought after philosophers of his time.
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. Even though it is over 2000 years old, more and more people are discovering how Stoicism is not only relevant to modern times, but can be applied in very simple, yet strong ways.