Today's Daily Stoic challenge: quiet quitting. A little different from the trend of quiet quitting, in which you do the bare minimum at work—just enough to stay afloat and not get canned.

This concept is more like cutting out some toxic shit in your life, without having to tell the whole world about it (I know I'm blogging about this, but no one KNOWS I'm blogging about it, at least not in this moment). As today's instructive email details: It's time to decide to get rid of a bad habit, a negative thought pattern, a toxic relationship, something that is poisoning your life.

I've already done that in various ways over the past few months. Finally distanced myself from someone I thought was a friend but who ghosted me the second they no longer needed me as an emotional bridge loan. I'd kept the door open a crack for far too long, hoping maybe there'd be a conversation, an explanation, a desire to reconnect—but sometimes you have to create your own closure, and now I have. Started cutting down on social media intake, in both breadth, frequency, and content (i.e., I'm trying not to soil my weekends and vacations by hate-reading tweets and FB posts of local fascists; that's a workweek activity only now).

But I guess today's exercise is something I'm supposed to do starting today. It's tough, because when I think of my vices, I really, really, really am resistant to letting go, when it comes right down to it. I've apparently got a lot of crutches. At any rate, after thinking for a few minutes, I've decided to excise staying up past midnight on "school nights" (i.e., when I have to work the next day). My sleep habits are horrible, and part of it is that late at night is really my only downtime. But I've got to get some sleep, man—so lights out, phone off, and Calm App activated by 12:00am every night. I'll try for that most of the time, anyway.

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