Coaching practices for The Stoic Daily Review After a Loss

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  • I’ve gotten so used to the good things in my life
  • Every time I review how I acted today I catch myself building a defense
  • My days just dissolve one into the next with no real reckoning
  • My days just blur past and I never stop to look at them, so the same reactions I’d want to change keep happening on repeat
  • The little daily irritations get under my skin way more than they should

Practices that may help

  1. Negative visualization (premeditatio malorum)
    Imagine losing what you value — not to catastrophize, but to restore appreciation.
    The Stoic Daily Review
  2. The Stoic Daily Review
    The Stoic daily review is a structured morning-and-evening self-examination practice — rooted in Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus — that trains attention on what is within your control, builds honest self-knowledge, and interrupts reactive patterns before they compound. Evidence is largely mechanistic and clinical; no randomized trials exist, but the underlying cognitive mechanisms align with modern research on self-monitoring and reflection.
  3. Seneca’s evening court — judge the day as an honest prosecutor
    Review the day as a fair judge would: what was the evidence, what was the verdict, what is the sentence?
    The Pythagorean Evening Review
  4. The evening reckoning (examen)
    Audit the day’s actions against your stated intentions — without self-punishment, just honest seeing.
    The Stoic Daily Review
  5. Review the day each night
    Before sleep, put the day on trial: what did I do well, what badly, what will I do differently?
    Seneca on Time, Made Practical
  6. The dichotomy-of-control check
    Before reacting to any event, sort it: "Is this in my control, or not?"
    The Stoic Daily Review
  7. Stoic journaling
    Write to examine your judgments — morning to set intentions, evening to review how you actually responded.
    Stoicism, as a Set of Practices
  8. Memento mori — the mortality reflection
    Briefly hold the awareness that today is finite to sharpen what actually matters.
    The Stoic Daily Review
  9. Begin with gratitude
    Start the review by recalling specific gifts and good moments of the day.
    The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
  10. The Pythagorean evening examination (Hadot’s version)
    Before sleep, review the day in three questions: Where did I go wrong? What did I succeed at? What remains undone?
    Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises

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