Today’s Stoic
If you would be happy, keep your desires and aversions within your power, and do not stretch them toward what is not.
What it means today
Happiness is largely a matter of wanting and fearing the right things — the things that are actually yours to choose. Reach for what you cannot have, and you hand your peace to fortune.
Try this todayNotice one desire or fear aimed at something outside your control, and bring it back inside.
Today’s questionIs what I want or fear even mine to control?