Continuing creating a poster a day for a year based on the book ‘The Daily Stoic’. These are the designs for February.
This year long project interprets a daily message from the daily stoic book, written by Ryan Holiday, through an original and spontaneous poster a day design. Without overthinking or planning the design, the aim is to react instinctively and immediately start working. Whether the design takes 5 minutes or 2 hours the poster is created and published daily. The theme for February during this design a poster a day for a year is Passion & Emotions.
Day 32 – Feb 1
“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on–it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier.” Marcus Aurelius. Design 1h 19m.
Day 33 – Feb 2
“We would never let another person jerk us around the way we let our impulses do. We should be the ones in control, not our emotions.” Daily Stoic. Design 23m.
Day 34 – Feb 3
“When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken with anxiety?” Epictetus. Design 47m.
Day 35 – Feb 4
“Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.” Epictetus. Design 12m.
Day 36 – Feb 5
“Don’t be bounced around, but submit every impulse to the claims of justice, and protect your clear conviction in every appearance.” Marcus Aurelius. Design 1h 07m.
Day 37 – Feb 6
“Choose to be at peace, rather than at war.” Seneca. Design 1h 29m.
Day 38 – Feb 7
“The combination of power, fear and mania can be deadly. The leader, convinced that he might be betrayed, acts first and betrays others first.” Daily Stoic. Design 1h 03m.
Day 39 – Feb 8
“The next time you find yourself in the middle of a freakout, just ask: Is this making me feel better? Is this relieving any of the symptoms I wish were gone?” Daily Stoic. Design 47m.
Day 40 – Feb 9
“We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind–for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.” Marcus Aurelius. Design 1h 51m.
Day 41 – Feb 10
“As the Stoics have said many times, getting angry almost never solves anything. Usually, it makes things worse.” Daily Stoic. Design 1h 28m.
Day 42 – Feb 11
“An uncontrolled, desire-fuelled, over-indulged soul is turned from a king into that most feared and detested thing–a tyrant.” Seneca. Design 14m.
Day 43 – Feb 12
“Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting.” Epictetus. Design 7m.
Day 44 – Feb 13
“Understand indulging might actually be worse than resisting. In this way, self-control becomes the real pleasure, and the temptation becomes the regret.” Daily Stoic. Design 1h 56m.
Day 45 – Feb 14
“We’ve all asked ourself, “Why did I do that? What was I thinking?” You weren’t, that’s the problem.” Daily Stoic. Design 1h 03m.
Day 46 – Feb 15
“Many of the things that upset us, the Stoics believed, are a product of the imagination, not reality. Like dreams they are vivid and realistic at the time.” Daily Stoic. Design 2h 07m.
Day 47 – Feb 16
“Life is difficult enough. Let’s not make it harder by getting emotional about insignificant matters or digging in for battles we don’t care about.” Daily Stoic. Design 27m.
Day 48 – Feb 17
“Locate that yearning for more, better, someday and see it for what it is: the enemy of your contentment. Choose it or your happiness.” Daily Stoic. Design 14m.
Day 49 – Feb 18
“If we don’t have a plan, if we never learned how to put up the storm windows, we will be at the mercy of these external–and internal–elements.” Daily Stoic. Design 1h 01m
Day 50 – Feb 19
“Remember to conduct yourself in life as if at a banquet. As something being passed around comes to you, reach out your hand and take a moderate helping.” Epictetus. Design 1h 11m.
Day 51 – Feb 20
“Ever wonder what God thinks of money? Just look at the people he gives it to.” Anne Lamont-Bird by Bird.” The Daily Stoic. Design 42m.
Day 52 – Feb 21
“Ever wonder what God thinks of money? Just look at the people he gives it to.” Anne Lamont-Bird by Bird.” The Daily Stoic. Design 42m.
Day 53 – Feb 22
“It’s easy to act–to just dive in. It’s harder to stop, pause, to think: No, I’m not sure I need to do that yet.” The Daily Stoic. Design 2h 08m.
Day 54 – Feb 23
“It’s easy to act–to just dive in. It’s harder to stop, pause, to think: No, I’m not sure I need to do that yet.” The Daily Stoic. Design 48m.
Day 55 – Feb 24
“Keep in mind that it isn’t the one who has it in for you and takes a swipe that harms you, but rather the harm comes from your own belief about the abuse.” Epictetus. Design 1h 14m.
Day 56 – Feb 25
“No matter how much he inflicted his will on the world, it would be like building a castle in the sand – soon to be erased by the winds of time.” The Daily Stoic. Design 37m.
Day 57 – Feb 26
“Think of the last time you flew off the handle. What was the outcome? Was there any benefit?” The Daily Stoic. Design 8m.
