You remember the long hours you worked. You remember the sacrifices. You know the risks you took and the effort it required. You wouldn’t have been successful without it.

We all have a story we tell ourselves about how we got here. And as inspiring as these narratives are, do they really illustrate the values we hold dearest? Do they celebrate the right sacrifices?

Mark Twain adored his daughter Susy. And yet, as he looked back after her sudden and devastating death, he was horrified by his own priorities. “If I could call up a single instance where I laid aside my own projects & desires & put myself to real inconvenience to procure a pleasure for her,” he wrote, “I would forget all things else to remember that.”

It’s not that he’d been a bad father, he’d just been busy. He hadn’t neglected her, he’d just put a lot of other things first—as we all sometimes do. He wished he’d had different priorities. He wished he had sacrificed more of his career for her, instead of sacrificing so much of her for his career. He wished he’d chosen her more.

One day, we may wish the same.

Look, we all struggle with balancing our family life and our professional life. The way we want to spend our time and the reality of how we actually do. The things we prioritize and the things we should prioritize instead. Who or what we’re sacrificing our lives and our limited time for.

That’s why we created our Daily Stoic Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness Challenge. Six weeks to acquire the habits, philosophy, and structure to kick-start lasting change in your life. It’s about practicing the right habits and letting go of the wrong ones. Consistent, small actions compound. You can realize a better future for yourself by starting to make better choices today.

This has been one of our bestselling challenges for over six years, changing the habits and improving the lives of thousands of people around the world.

Our team has fully updated the challenge for 2026, keeping what works and adding new tools to help you sustain the changes, keep you accountable, and provide motivation to follow through and get the results you need:

• Before-and-After Reflection Tool: See how you change over the course of six weeks
• Digital Community Space: Go through the challenges alongside others and connect with people who are also committed to changing for the better
• Group Discount: Save 15% when two or more people enroll together—bring friends as accountability partners, sign up with colleagues, or get your family to join alongside you

And I’ll be hosting (hey, Ryan here) a live Q&A call on July 28th for challenge participants. I’d love to see you in there. You’ll have a chance to ask me your most pressing questions about habits and the daily challenges.

The Daily Stoic Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness Challenge was built to help you stop putting off the work of becoming better, of prioritizing the right things before it’s too late—and start building the habits to improve your life.

Join the Daily Stoic Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness Challenge.