The Secret To Better Habits In 2025
Here we are…at the halfway point of the 2020s. The first half seems like it was both yesterday and forever ago, doesn’t it?
That’s what the ancients said. Time flies.
But as time passes, as the world changes, how many of us just stay the same? Incredible, unbelievable events have transpired, but I would not say I have transformed myself in any incredible or unbelievable way.
We go on being the way we always were, not unlike, as Marcus Aurelius noted, those gladiators at the game “torn half to pieces, covered in blood and gore, and still pleading to be held over till tomorrow…to be bitten and clawed again.”
While there is nothing magical about the new year or nothing special about being halfway through a decade, there can be something powerful in these artificial constructs, in deciding to mark a turning point. There’s power in rituals, in moments that encourage us to pause, reflect, and reset. Even the Stoics embraced this. Seneca is said to have begun each year with a plunge into the icy Tiber River, a bracing ritual to wash away the old and prepare for the new.
Here are some habits, some best practices, some things I am going to ask of myself in 2025 (many of which were inspired by The Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge, which starts…
