Since January 1 this year I have started my day with the meditation in this book. Stoicism is not a religion, but rather a philosophy on how to lead your life towards happiness. It is far from the dower existence that many think of when they hear about Stoicism. It has been an insightful experience and I highly recommend it. For this coming year, I have found a book of daily Shakespearian quotes.

This is not really a book by the classical definition. It has prompts that derive from the stoic philosophy and space so that you can write down your thoughts that respond to them. There is a question per day in order to reflect in the morning and at night. I’m too impatient to follow the day by day prompts as I felt some of them didn’t really resonate with me and were questions that people take a lifetime to answer, not just a day (eg “what is my purpose in life?”). However I did enjoy it and w...

Enjoyed the journal as this was my first try at being consistent with a practice of journaling. I loved the stoic questions and especially the weekly quotes and intention setting. If you are someone who enjoys the principals and wants to practice journaling, this is a great starter!

I loved these daily meditations! Most of them were brilliant and forced me to think about parts of my life that I wouldn't think of otherwise. Two downsides were: it would be difficult to understand some questions without Daily Stoic book; some of the questions ask the same thing in a different form, so you may encounter repetition.

It was a very handy journal, and I loved the weekly topics. My one gripe was that trying to answer the daily questions was difficult as they often seemed incongruous, especially in the morning, so I often ignored those and just wrote what I wanted.

Disappointing. Buy the more detailed Daily Stoic book and use a blank journal and save your money.

Ryan as usual bird feets you with whit little nuggets of chewed stoicism. It is interesting to see the point o view of someone who spends such amount of time reading. I think that this is the kind of book to read very well as an intro to the philosophy.

A companion journal to The Daily Stoic, this book features weekly themes, and daily questions that compliment the source material. You’ll find a space for both morning and evening meditations as you strive to apply the material to your daily life. I personally found it the journal to be a nice routine to both frame out and end my day. While a few of the questions were a bit ambiguous, and sometimes did not clearly relate to the source material, it wasn’t so often that I wouldn’t consider using t...

This was okay, then tedious, and then I just followed along. Many of the prompts start being redundant and not that interesting.

I used this in conjunction with The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations by Ryan Holiday, a provisional review of which I wrote here. While this journal is not absolutely necessary to enjoy that book, it does help you maximize the benefits that you can derive from it. This is not just a redundant repackaging of the advices and maxims espoused by the former. It actually serves as a useful adjunct, supplementing the main text with additional applicable insights.This is made evident by the way the author i...

Second time I'm going through this book. First time was, I think, three years ago. Between then and now, I've increased my study of Stoic literature into a daily habit. I now have a deeper understanding of the philosophy of the Stoics, I have been applying said philosophy to my life, I've noticed some pretty big changes. Can't really use this book without the daily reading book from the same author. They are designed to go together. I'll buy another copy of this book in about a year.

I made it to day 26 before I couldn't take it anymore. I was not prepared for how poorly thought-out and executed this would be. It reads like it was written using a freelance posting with little time or money allocated to it. It should have been a red flag with the morning exercises said they were "morning reflections" instead of the "morning preparations" they should be. The daily questions are just taken directly from The Daily Stoic with no thought at all put into changes to better support d...

Not very useful without one of the companion books. Should have been bundled together.

Cool notebookEvery week has a different Stoic theme upon which daily questions that you have to answer are based. I don't know whether it helped me improve any aspect of my life, but it was nice to spend some time every day to think about certain aspects of Stoic philosophy and how they apply to my life.

When I saw the title for the first time, I thought it was another self-help book. Fortunately, the wisdom, accurate analogies with the lifestyle of contemporary societies, and the anecdotes as well the background of the quoted reflections written by great antic philosophers make this book fun to read and focus on what the next day has for you.

I really enjoyed that this “book”’helped me to build a daily gratitude practice for the last year! Also the food for thought on a daily and weekly basis helped me to look at things differently and grow as an individual! I would surely recommend for anyone that is starting to build such practice!

Following the stoic series from the author, The Daily Stoic Journal was the natural step to read and do.While in the beginning it's hard (like many things) the guidance provided, the exercises and the questions to look into are an excellent start point to carry with this practice. I believe that once you start an if you're constant, you will see the benefits from yourself. It's like meditation writhing on a paper. It all makes sense in your own personal practice rather than anybody else words.

An excellent journaling experience that is based on the stoic philosophy. With the author's insightful reflection it fits into modern-day society very well...

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This is a great way to get yourself to not just read about stoicism, but to practice daily... if you can make the habit stick. For me, personally, I have not managed to make it stick, but I plan to make this part of my daily routine. It has some very useful stoic lessons, and complements Ryan's daily emails pretty well.