It Works If You Work It | Impulse Control

<p>It's felt like things have been a little off lately. <a href="https://dailydad.com/do-you-know-what-you-look-like-angry-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You have been irritable</a>. You have been stressed. You have been easily rattled by external events, you have been focusing on things outside your control. You have been a little caught up in projects at work, in getting ahead, in getting what you want. You haven't been the role model you aspire to be at home.</p><p>What's the source of all this? Well, why don't we look at our habits?</p><p>---</p><p>And in today's Daily Stoic Journal excerpt reading, Ryan discusses the importance of remembering that our first impulses are usually out of proportion with actual value.</p><p>📗 Preorder your copy of <a href="https://www.dailydadbook.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids</em></a><em> </em>(including numbered, signed first editions) now. </p><p>📔 And if you want a better edition of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations for your bedside table (to actually use, of course), <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/meditations" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">check out our new version of the Gregory Hays translation</a>.</p><p>✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_bla