Journal · Stoic

Thirteen weeks. Ninety-one mornings. One clean slate.

Mind Field: A Stoic’s Clean Slate is a guided 13-week journal for men who want to think more clearly and react less — without the bloat of a 365-day commitment.

What is inside

Each day pairs a public-domain passage from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, or Epictetus with a focused prompt, and gives it a facing page for the thoughts in between. Thirteen weekly themes carry the arc from Beginning to Integration.

13 weekly themes, from Beginning to Integration
91 guided daily entries with curated Stoic readings
91 facing free-write pages
13 weekly reviews on the four classical virtues
A Memento Mori afterword and a public-domain reading list

Trim: 8.5 × 8.5 in
Extent: 223 pages · cream stock
Editions: Paperback & hardcover
Imprint: Quiet Days Press · the Stoic journal

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The structure

One season, not one year.

Thirteen weeks is long enough to change how you think and short enough to finish. The journal is built around a single repeating shape, so there is nothing to learn after day one.

13: weekly themes
91: guided mornings
91: facing free-write pages
223: pages, cream stock

“Some things are up to us, and some are not.”

Epictetus · Enchiridion I.1 · public-domain translation

Who it is for

Three readers, one book.

01 The man rebuilding after a hard season. A divorce, a layoff, a move, a year that took more than it gave. Thirteen weeks of structure while the ground settles.
02 The professional who wants ten quiet minutes. Something to do before the inbox opens that is not scrolling, and an honest accounting when the day closes.
03 The reader of Meditations ready to apply it. You have read the Stoics. This is the working notebook that puts them to use.

Inside the journal

Four spreads from the interior.

Interior spread. Left page: 'The one question that changes everything', with two columns listing what is in your control and what is not. Right page: a preface headed 'How to use this journal'. — Of Control · pp. 4–5

Interior spread. Left page: 'The four virtues' — wisdom, justice, courage, temperance, each with a short definition. Right page: 'The next thirteen weeks', a signed written promise. — Foundations · pp. 6–7

Interior spread. A weekly opener headed 'Week 01 of Thirteen — On Beginning', with a Marcus Aurelius passage and a ruled space for the week's intention. — Week 01 opener · p. 9

Interior spread. Left page: the Day 001 daily entry with morning and evening sections, three priority lines and four virtue checkboxes. Right page: a dotted free-write notes page. — Day 001 · pp. 10–11

Editions

Two bindings, both finished.

The interior is identical in both. Neither is on sale yet: the press launches as a catalogue rather than as a single book, and the rest of the shelf is finished too.

Paperback $19.99 · 8.5 × 8.5 in · 223 pages
Matte cover, cream interior stock, lies reasonably flat on a desk.
Hardcover $29.99 · 8.5 × 8.5 in · 223 pages
Case laminate, for a copy that will be finished and then kept on a shelf.

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