Do Your Job

Do Your Job

Focusing on the Daily Stoic Meditation for July 1 — Do Your Job, as outlined by Ryan Holiday in the bestseller 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art Of Living.

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“Whatever anyone does or says, for my part I’m bound to the good. In the same way an emerald or gold or purple might always proclaim: ‘whatever anyone does or says, I must be what I am and show my true colors.’”

— MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.15

Duty

The stoic focus for this month is duty;

🤺 Duty regards the responsibilities you have in your life.

Duty regards the things that you must do, the things that you have to do, the things you’re responsible for.

What things are you responsible for in life?

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The major stoic duty is simply to be good — be a good person, both to yourself and others.

How can you fulfil your duty of being good?

Do Your Job

Purpose

Everyone has a purpose.

Everyone has something that they are meant to do.

There’s a sense of interconnectedness within this idea — everyone, in the entire universe, has their own purpose…