Happy New Year!
Many of us are scrabbling around assembling and confirming our good intentions for the year; all the things we’re going to do in 2026.
An alternative is to adopt Daily Stoic’s list of eight things to STOP doing (from Instagram, here):
- Stop complaining
- Stop taking things personally
- Stop avoiding discomfort
- Stop hanging out with the wrong people
- Stop wasting the morning
- Stop allowing distractions
- Stop doing the inessential
- Stop comparing yourself to others.
Simple, sound advice for the year ahead.

