Free printable practices
Stoic exercises you can print and use today
Five one-page worksheets and twenty short essays. Every sheet is a PDF you can print, and none of them ask for an email address. The practices come from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca and Epicurus, written for an ordinary difficult afternoon rather than a seminar.
The printable worksheets
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What Can I Control?
Sort what is yours to influence from what is not. Three questions, fifteen minutes.
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The Three-Line Stress Log
One week of three-line entries, then read the pattern back.
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The Evening Review
Three questions before sleep. Ninety seconds, no trial.
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The Thought Record
Restate a heavy thought so it can be examined instead of obeyed.
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The Reliance Inventory
A gratitude exercise that needs no loss to work.
All twenty practices
Each essay is short, cites its source passage, and ends with a practice you can use the same day.
- What is yours to do? A three-line practice for a stressful or anxious moment.
- What would be enough for now? Four questions for examining a desire without judging it.
- What would you tell a friend? A distancing question for a problem you are standing too close to.
- Name the feeling precisely Why “upset” is the wrong word, and what changes when you find the right one.
- What the camera would record Separating the event from the story you added to it.
- Rehearse the setback Preparation, not pessimism, and how to tell them apart.
- Close the day deliberately Three questions, ninety seconds, and no trial.
- One year from now A question for sorting what deserves today.
- Zoom out, then return When one problem fills the whole screen.
- The pattern is the clue One week, three lines, no analysis.
- One thing at a time The workload is not the task in front of you.
- Count what is already yours An appreciation practice that needs no loss to work.
- A thought is not a verdict The oldest line in Stoicism, used precisely.
- The morning rehearsal Expect the difficult person before the first meeting.
- When the plan meets the obstacle What adapts is not the world. It is the plan.
- Give it a day An unglamorous remedy for anger.
- Stop arguing with what happened Acceptance as a starting point, not a surrender.
- Whose verdict counts? On valuing your own opinion of yourself last.
- You only carry the present The past is finished and the future is not yours yet.
- Start smaller than feels serious Why the price of progress is paid in small coins.
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