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On Our "Virtual Route 99" With Month-End & Quarter-End #RandomThoughts

2026-09-21T17:00:00.000-07:00

Fall is Before Us. Our Team prepared the "Grid" above as we will be dark throughout our properties in October and are gearing up for our end-of-year assessments and 2027.

We close out with this bucket list for 2027 for all to take advantage of and look forward to our continued engagements in our Virtual Route 99 in November. OUr team will continue its daily periodic assessments in our Social Corners (Meta; X):

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Sunday Edition): On the "Virtual Prowl"....

2026-09-20T12:24:53.046-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" With #RandomThoughts For the Week

2026-09-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" Around The World With #RandomThoughts For the Week

2026-09-13T00:00:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Edition): On the 25th Anniversary of 9/11

2026-09-11T00:01:00.000-07:00

The 25th Anniversary of 9/11 is at hand. The team at Zeteo pulled together a historical perspective, which we hereby present on this solemn Patriots Day 2026:

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Weekly Edition): #RandomThoughts For the Week

2026-09-09T13:26:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Edition): On This Labor Day Weekend Here in the United States

2026-09-06T13:02:57.311-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" On this First Friday of September 2026

2026-08-30T14:35:19.140-07:00

It has been a busy week already here at the Daily Outsider. We have selected the following stoic thoughts to uplift and inspire:

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Month-End Edition): #RandomThoughts to Uplift & Inspire

2026-08-27T00:00:00.000-07:00

We’re doing a deep dive into Epictetus’ powerful lessons all month long—not only studying and discussing his philosophy together as a community with our How to Read Epictetus Digital Guide, but learning how to use it for the challenges we face as people every day.

Here are three more essential rules Epictetus lived by and how you can apply them today:

1. Make beautiful choices

"If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be."

It’s simple and it’s true: you are what your choices make you. Nothing more and nothing less. Today will present you with plenty of opportunities to choose between—to choose beauty or ugliness, kindness or selfishness, mercy or vengeance, serenity or anger. There will be little choices—what you eat, how you talk to people, whether you pick up the television remote or a book. And there will be bigger choices, too: whether you stand up for what’s right, whether you reach down to help someone who needs it, what kind of work you do, what standards you hold yourself to. Make the choices that reflect who you are and who you aspire to be.

2. Don't wait to demand the best for yourself

“How long will you wait before you demand the best of yourself?”

The Stoics come down pretty hard on procrastinating. There is no bigger waste of life, they said, than putting things off. “If you are careless and lazy now,” Epictetus said, “and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.”

What’s that thing you’ve been putting off? What is one step you can take today to start making progress on it?

3. Fuel the habit bonfire

“If you want to do something, make a habit of it, if you don’t want to do that, don’t, but make a habit of something else instead.”

Epictetus said habits—good and bad—were like a bonfire. Every time we perform a habit, we reinforce it. We add fuel to the fire. “Every habit and capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions, walking by walking, and running by running,” Epictetus said, “therefore, the same principle is at work in our state of mind. When you get angry, you’ve not only experienced that evil, but you’ve also reinforced a bad habit, adding fuel to the fire.” It was likely one of the many lessons he learned from his teacher, Musonius Rufus. Rufus was perhaps the earliest philosopher to identify the power of habits. In “many circumstances,” he said, “we do not deal with our affairs in accordance with correct assumptions, but rather we follow thoughtless habit.”

So think about the things you’ve done in the last week. Think about what you have planned for today and the week that follows. Think about the person you’d like to be, or the person you see yourself as—are your actions the actions of that kind of person? Will your actions get you there if you are not there yet? Are you fueling the right bonfires?

Few thinkers in history have offered as much clear, practical guidance for everyday life as Epictetus. His teachings—on mastery, self-control, and meeting hardship with resilience—shaped not only Stoicism itself, but the lives of countless people over thousands of years, from Marcus Aurelius to Admiral James Stockdale and many more.

On Our "VIrtual Route 99" With Weekly #RandomThoughts

2026-08-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" With #RandomThought to Uplift & Inspire

2026-08-13T00:01:00.000-07:00

Out & About On Our "Virtual Route 99" With #RandomThoughts For August 2026

2026-08-06T00:01:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" With Month-End #RandomThoughts

2026-07-31T00:01:00.000-07:00

On the "Virtual Route 99" Around the World With #RandomThoughts For the Week

2026-07-25T00:01:00.000-07:00

Out & About With #RandomThoughts For the Week While On Our "Virtual Walkabout"

2026-07-18T23:59:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" With #RandomThoughts For the Week

2026-07-09T00:01:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Quarter End Edition): As America Celebrates 250 Years of Independence

2026-07-01T00:01:00.000-07:00

This is the week that America celebrates 250 Years of Independence. Our team pulled together some interesting thoughts on America that we are featuring on all our active properties as we go "Dark" for America250.

Onward America!!!

On Our "Virtual Route 99" This Week: A Blast From the Past-The West Wing

2026-06-26T23:59:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" In America : Rise Up, Sing Out Concert

2026-06-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

On Our "VIrtual Route 99" With Mid-Month #RandomThoughts

2026-06-12T00:01:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" With #RandomThoughts For the Week

2026-06-07T23:59:00.000-07:00

Welcome To June!!!

2026-06-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

On the "Virtual Route 99" With Month-End #RandomThoughts

2026-05-31T00:01:00.000-07:00

As June is Before Us, Please enjoy the following #RandomThoughts:

#HappyMemorialDay2026

2026-05-25T00:00:00.000-07:00

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Edition): On this Memorial Day 2026 Weekend Here in the United States

2026-05-23T15:29:34.865-07:00