This comes from Ryan Holiday's blog, "Meditations on Strategy and Life." Mr. Holiday conducted a very interesting and useful interview with Massimo Pigliucci, who seems to be one of the foremost Stoics of our time.
Holiday asks Pigliucci about his daily meditation practice. Here is the answer, condensed:
First: he contemplates the challenges he's likely to face that day. He contemplates which of the four cardinal virtues he's likely to call on (courage, self control, equanimity, wisdom).
Second: he visualizes Hierocles' Circle, picturing his concern for himself, then his family, then his friends, and then the world.
Third: he does premeditatio malorum... he visualizes a bad thing that might happen that day.
Fourth: he meditates on a Stoic Maxim.
Fifth: he ends the day with a Marcus Aurelius-syle journal, which is not intended for publication. He reviews the day's events and his own performance.
Pigliucci credits Stoic week with designing his practice, and says he's only modified it slightly to suit his own tastes.
Holiday's interview contains a number of other gems, but I'll let you read it for yourself.
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