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MODERN WISDOM SERIES

Rules for Living Journal

Life Advice Based on the Words and Wisdom of Jordan B. Peterson

40-Page introduction to the work of Dr. Peterson.

The 2-volume set provides 365 of Peterson’s pithiest insights paired with over 1000 complementary quotes from great thinkers such as Frankl, Jung, Dosteovsky, Fromm, Aristotle, and more.

Daily prompts to promote reflection and self-transformation.

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ANCIENT WISDOM SERIES

Stoic Virtues Journal

Your Guide to Building Character and Becoming the Person You Aspire to Be

15-Page introduction to Stoicism

The 2-volume set provides 365 of most incisive insights from the Stoics paired with over 1000 quotes from great thinkers such as Frankl, Adler, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Mandela and many modern personalities.

Daily prompts to promote reflection and self-transformation.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

“A humble and unpretentious book that invites us to reflect upon the fundamental values guiding one’s life, without moralizing. Via the citations of the Stoic philosophers and inspiring people form history the author and brings us to the fundamentals of our existence that we too often forget. A book to read and re-read quietly across the days.”

— Melanie G.

Rating: 5 out of 5.

“This book is beautifully laid out and the author has put a great deal of time into choosing meaningful quotes designed to help the reader think carefully about what is important to them. If you are feeling like it is time for a change, then I recommend this book.”

— Barb

Rating: 5 out of 5.

“I really like how this author pulled together historic leaders and their messages of wisdom. These great messages inspire me to think deeper and be a better person. That gives me a good feeling about myself. I look forward to tomorrows journal entry! Thank you for creating this.”

— Michel

Rating: 5 out of 5.

“My first introduction to Stoicism…. The book has a lot of thought-provoking maxims that help you grow towards becoming the person you aspire to be. The question of the day (author approach) helps me deal with adversity, toughen-up, and accept things outside our my control.”

— Sebastien

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About Wisdom Journals

“When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”

Harry has Dumbledore, Luke has Obi-Wan and Yoda, Frodo has Gandalf. Who do you have to guide you? If you could have a mentor who would it be?

Wisdom Journals distill the wisdom of the ages, ancient and recent, in a way that you are certain to find life changing advice.

Wisdom comes from without, and from within. That is why Journals combine pivotal insights with daily prompts to foster self-transformation..

These journals are ideal gifts, from you to someone you care about, or, even better, a gift to yourself.

K. Wilkins: About the Author

I cannot understand how some people can live without communicating with the wisest people who ever lived on Earth?”

Leo Tolstoy

A little over twenty years ago, I stumbled across some letters of from an older and wiser person to someone obviously younger and I knew I had found a guide. That the letters were not addressed to me specifically, and that they were written two thousand years ago was of no concern, the lessons within resonated loudly and clearly. The letters were Seneca’s Epistles; letters of advice he wrote to a youth named Lucilius. Seneca led to a broader array of mentors, a former Emperor (Marcus Aurelius), a former slave (Epictetus), philosophers such as Aristotle and Kierkegaard, as well as influential psychologists such as Adler, Fromm, Rollo May and Jordan Peterson.

A few years ago, I sat down to write a book for my children. I sought to summarize some essential life lessons, things that I wished that I had known as a young person. I wanted to give them a manual of living for sorts, the type of book I would have liked to have as a young adult (this despite the fact that in all likelihood I would have dismissed any such work as propaganda at the time. With a few decades under my belt, I now agree with Oscar Wilde – I am not young enough to know everything).

As I progressed with this book, working through the question of what one must know to lead a good life, I found myself coming to the same conclusions of these cherished guides. They were often cited at the head of each chapter; their pithy statements expressed what I did in thousands of words. That book of dialogues (publication pending) and the story it tells weaves together much of the best advice I could find about key life themes such as love, education, friendship, work, health, and money.

However, I observed that the act of writing was a more powerful learning tool than reading alone. What I learned is that wisdom is as much, or more, of a ‘how’ than a ‘what.’ The lessons within these quotes and proverbs are best assimilated through the act of writing on the theme as reading it alone. Hence, these journals. Writing forces us out of our inner monologue, we engae in a dialogue between our current self and our ideal self, or between our public self and our authentic self. The wisdom quotes in your personal Wisdom Journal bring the wisest minds of all time into the conversation.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Select Wisdom Quotes from the Journals

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” 

ARISTOTLE

““If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it,
or that you tried to bargain over the price.” 

RUDYARD KIPLING

“After all, if you’re not the leading man in your own drama, you’re a bit player in someone else’s – and you might well be assigned to play a dismal, lonely and tragic part.” 

JORDAN B. PETERSON

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” 

SENECA

“Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.” 

ANAIS NIN

“At their deepest level, all great stories are about fear and courage—yours included. Love stories are the ultimate tale of courage. After all, the word comes from coeur.” 

KEVIN WILKINS*

*from the novel Making It Count (publication pending)

Selected Guides

Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Jordan Peterson, Viktor Frankl, Alfred Adler, Erich Fromm, Rollo May, Abraham Maslow, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Cicero, Plutarch, Soren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Nelson Mandela, Matthew McConaughey, Steven Pressfield, Seth Godin, Michel de Montaigne, Robert Greene, Helen Keller, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dosteovsky, Brene Brown, Tim Ferris, Ryan Holiday, Jocko Willink, Douglas Adams, Maya Angelou, Albert Einstein, Muhammad Ali, Margaret Atwood, Tom Bilyeu, Bono, Robert Brault, Scott Orson Card, Jim Carrey, James P. Carse, Carlos Castaneda, Bob Dylan, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, William McRaven, Neil Gaiman, David Goggins, Sam Harris, Jonathan Haidt, Chris Hadfield, Anne Lamott, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Lee, Mark Manson, Kristen Neff, Charlie Munger, Naval Ravikant, Steven Pinker, Nassim Taleb, Philip Zimbardo, Benjamin Franklin, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Paulo Coelho, Richard Dawkins, Leonard Cohen, Harper Lee, Shane Parrish, Robertson Davies, Sccot Barry Kaufman

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RULES FOR LIVING JOURNAL

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