Trent Roth

Defining real estate expectations for over 30 years! #seeker #ketojedi #sleep #carnivore #intermittentFAST #stoic

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

Amor fati on the golf/life course: Bad bounce? Wind knocks it down? Buried lie? Three-putt disaster?
Don’t fight fate-love it. This exact moment is necessary. Swing free by loving what’s given.
#Stoicism #AmorFati #Golf #DailyStoic #Epictetus #MarcusAurelius

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

@Bringatrailer Should be built for both but would lose the clean door jambs.

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

Today’s challenge:
Identify one default reaction or habit that’s not serving you.
Then try the opposite.
Pause when you want to rush.
Speak up when you want to stay silent.
Stay calm when you want to explode.
Small opposite actions create big change.

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

Epictetus:
“What assistance can we find in the fight against habit? Try the opposite!”
Discourses 1.27.4
#theDailyStoic #Stoicism #Epictetus

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

Doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result isn’t optimism-it’s insanity.
We say “tomorrow I’ll change,” then repeat the same habits and wonder why nothing improves.
Hope without action is just self-deception.

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

Epictetus:
“If you are defeated once and tell yourself you will overcome, but carry on as before… eventually you won’t even notice your mistake and will begin to rationalize your behavior.”
Discourses 2.18.31
#theDailyStoic #Stoicism

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

Marcus Aurelius:
“How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us!”
Meditations 11.18.8.

Every encounter today is worthy
but response is not necessary.

I can observe, understand, and let it pass without adding anger, drama, or reaction.
Peace is choosing not to dig the hole deeper.
#Stoicism #TheDailyStoic

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“It is well to be flexible.”
-Seneca
Can’t do this? Try that.
Blocked again? Find another way.
Adapt. Adjust. Keep moving.
Whether in career, plans, or daily life-rigidity breaks. Flexibility endures.
#DailyStoic #Seneca

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“Take a bird’s-eye view.”
-Marcus Aurelius
Zoom out.
See the weddings, divorces, births and deaths, battles and markets-all blended together.
Your problems look a lot smaller from above.
Perspective is everything.
#DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“It’s better to plant the seeds of a few authors than to be scattered about by many.”
-Seneca
Quality over quantity.
Read fewer books deeply.
Do fewer things well.
Focus then practice.
Your mind will thank you.
#DailyStoic #Seneca

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“Show me someone sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy, exiled and happy, disgraced and happy. Show me! By God, how much I’d like to see a Stoic. But since you can’t show me someone that perfectly formed, at least show me someone actively forming themselves so, inclined in this way. . . . Show me!”
-Epictetus
You don’t need to be a perfect Stoic.
Just keep working on it-every day.
Progress, not perfection.
Keep building the chain.
#DailyStoic #Epictetus

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

Tomorrow is a new day. Can’t drive in this town without anger:-)

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“If you don’t wish to be a hot-head, don’t feed your habit. Try as a first step to remain calm and count the days you haven’t been angry. I used to be angry every day, now every other day, then every third or fourth… if you make it as far as 30 days, thank God! For habit is first weakened and then obliterated.”-Epictetus
Don’t break the chain. Mark the days you keep your cool. Momentum will do the rest. Anger is a habit. Calm is a better one. Start today.
#DailyStoic #Epictetus

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“When you get angry, you’ve not only experienced that evil-you’ve also reinforced a bad habit, adding fuel to the fire.”
-Epictetus
Every outburst, every complaint, every time you match negativity… you’re making it easier to do again tomorrow.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Choose your habits wisely.
Which fire are you fueling today?
#DailyStoic #Epictetus

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“Kindness is invincible.”
-Marcus Aurelius
When someone’s being a jerk the easiest move is to match their energy.
The Stoic move? Stay kind anyway. Sincere. Steady. Unshakable.
It protects your peace and often disarms them more than any comeback ever could.
Kindness isn’t weakness-it’s quiet power.
#DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“The soul is like a bowl of water, and our impressions are like the ray of light falling upon the water. When the water is troubled, it appears that the light itself is moved too, but it isn’t. So, when a person loses their composure it isn’t their skills and virtues that are troubled, but the spirit in which they exist, and when that spirit calms down so do those things.” Epictetus, Discourses, 3.3.20–22. You messed up. Maybe bad. So what?
The tools are still there. The philosophy didn’t abandon you, you temporarily abandoned it. Stop. Breathe. Regain your composure. It’s waiting for you.
#DailyStoic #Epictetus

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“Of all the things that are, some are good, others bad, and yet others indifferent. The good are virtues and all that share in them; the bad are the vices and all that indulge them; the indifferent lie in between virtue and vice and include wealth, health, life, death, pleasure, and pain.” - Epictetus, Discourses, 2.19.12b–13. Wealth, status, health, pain, other people’s opinions… these are all indifferent.
Not good. Not bad. Just neutral.
Most people lose their minds over them.
The Stoic stays calm, clear, and in control.
Where are you giving away your peace today?
#DailyStoic #Epictetus

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“Keep a list before your mind of those who burned with anger and resentment about something, of even the most renowned for success, misfortune, evil deeds, or any special distinction. Then ask yourself, how did that work out? Smoke and dust, the stuff of simple myth trying to be legend…”. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.27. The emperors who raged, the conquerors who obsessed, the people who burned with anger and resentment…
All of them ended up forgotten. Just smoke.
None of the stuff that’s stressing you out today will matter in a few years.
Let it go.
#DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“Keep in mind that it isn’t the one who has it in for you that harms you, but rather the harm comes from your own belief about the abuse.” Epictetus
There is no objectively “bad” event.
Only our opinion makes it so.
Why not choose today to not apply the label?
Why not choose not to react?
The Stoics understood: events are indifferent.
Our judgments are everything.
#Stoicism #DailyStoic

[Trent Roth @HomeStride]

“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”-Cato the Younger
In a world that rewards hot takes, loud opinions, and instant reactions…
Cato chose silence until his words actually mattered.
It’s easy to talk.
It’s hard to shut up and wait until you’re sure you’re right.
What’s better left unsaid today?
#DailyStoic #Stoicism