When you build courage, you start to improve your personal life. Building courage will help you take risks to a brighter future that you ordinarily would not take. When you build courage, you put fear behind you. courage is the process of admitting that you have fears, yet you are willing to find a way to defeat those fears and not allow these fears to take control of you. It is ok to experience your fears at appropriate times. 

Discourses 3.26.1 states Are not you ashamed to be more fearful and mean-spirited than fugitive slaves? To what estates, to what servants, do they trust, when they run away and leave their masters? Do they not, after carrying off a little with them for the first days, travel over land and sea, contriving first one, then another method of getting food? And what fugitive ever died of hunger? But you tremble, and lie awake at night, for fear you should want necessaries. Foolish man! are you so blind? Do not you see the way whither the want of necessaries leads?

There is nothing wrong with healthy fear. The problem is you have to put healthy fear in its place and unhealthy fear out of your life.  

Being human can really be challenging, to say the least. We feel emotions with every breath we take, every move we make. Some emotions are so sweet that we never want to lose that feeling. Other emotions cause us so much anger and hurt that we are paralyzed with pain.

Enchiridion 20. Remember, that not he who gives ill language or a blow insults, but the principle which represents these things as insulting. When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you. Try, therefore, in the first place, not to be hurried away with the appearance. For if you once gain time and respite, you will more easily command yourself.

Our minds use anger as a memory of a hurt that we have experienced.  

Each of us has the power to be creative. It's part of our natural make-up as human beings. The trouble is that, too often, we block our natural creativity and so make errors in thinking and give ourselves more problems than we should. 

Meditations 3.2.3 states Thus, to one who has a deep affection of soul, and penetration into the constitution of the whole, scarce any thing connected with nature will fail to recommend itself agreeably to him. Thus, the real vast jaws of savage beasts will please him, no less than the imitations of them by painters or statuaries. With like pleasure will his chaste eyes behold  the maturity and grace of old age in man or woman, and the inviting charms of youth. Many such things will he experience, not credible to all, but only to those who have the genuine affection of soul toward nature and its works. 

There are different  ways to open up your natural creativity and keep the channels unblocked.

It may be true that as you get older, your memory also deteriorates. But this does not mean that if you are younger, your brain is not capable of memory deterioration. Aging is just one cause of memory loss, but there are other factors. 

Seneca writes in Moral Letters 12.4-5 I owe it to my country-place that my old age became apparent whithersoever I turned. Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Fruits are most welcome when almost over; youth is most charming at its close; the last drink delights the toper, the glass which souses him and puts the finishing touch on his drunkenness.  Each pleasure reserves to the end the greatest delights which it contains. Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope, but has not yet reached the abrupt decline. And I myself believe that the period which stands, so to speak, on the edge of the roof, possesses pleasures of its own. Or else the very fact of our not wanting pleasures has taken the place of the pleasures themselves. How comforting it is to have tired out one's appetites, and to have done with them!

There are ways to have better brain performance.

Life is full of choices that have to be made, but as people grow accustomed to a set of routines, some action end up becoming habits. Under most circumstances, a lot of habits can be very constructive such as making sure to turn off lights when you leave a room, but there are different types of habits that can negatively impact your daily and even future life. 

Seneca wrote in Moral Letters 51.5-6. We ought to see to it that we flee to the greatest possible distance from provocations to vice. We should toughen our minds, and remove them far from the allurements of pleasure. A single winter relaxed Hannibal's fibre; his pampering in Campania took the vigour out of that hero who had triumphed over Alpine snows. He conquered with his weapons, but was conquered by his vices. We too have a war to wage, a type of warfare in which there is allowed no rest or furlough. To be conquered, in the first place, are pleasures, which, as you see, have carried off even the sternest characters. If a man has once understood how great is the task which he has entered upon, he will see that there must be no dainty or effeminate conduct. What have I to do with those hot baths or with the sweating-room where they shut in the dry steam which is to drain your strength? Perspiration should flow only after toil. 

When you think about how you feel about yourself, and how well you know yourself, how do you score on a scale of 1 - 10? If you feel that you know yourself very well, but you are on the lower side of how much you like yourself, then it might be time to start thinking about how you can build a better relationship with yourself. 

Discourses 4.4.45-46 states Mindful of this, enjoy the present and accept all things in their season. If you meet in action any of those things which you have made a subject of study, rejoice in them. If you have laid aside ill-nature and reviling; if you have lessened your harshness, indecent language, inconsiderateness, effeminacy; if you are not moved by the same things as formerly, or if not in the same manner as formerly; — you may keep a perpetual festival, to-day for success in one affair, to-morrow for another.

In these modern times, it seems that the world around us is so overcrowded with noise pollution that it can be hard for some people to think or focus on anything. Even when you live in a rural community, a lot of times it can be hard to get a moment's peace due to the constant distractions and noise created by a thriving society. Do you ever feel as though you need to just shut everything out for a few minutes? That might be because it’s something that you need. 

Seneca writes in Moral Letters 94.69 It is a great part of health to have forsaken the counsellors of madness and to have fled far from a companionship that is mutually baneful. That you may know the truth of my remark, see how different is each individual's life before the public from that of his inner self. A quiet life does not of itself give lessons in upright conduct; the countryside does not of itself teach plain living; no, but when witnesses and onlookers are removed, faults which ripen in publicity and display sink into the background.

Journaling is a wonderful way to tap into your deep thoughts and feelings, find triggers, and get more clarity. There are different methods of journaling. This practice has long been benficial to individuals. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius was his own personal journal. 

Seneca states in Moral Letters 8. 2 I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially from my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them. There are certain wholesome counsels, which may be compared to prescriptions of useful drugs; these I am putting into writing; for I have found them helpful in ministering to my own sores, which, if not wholly cured, have at any rate ceased to spread.

One way of journaling that helps with creative slumps and getting unstuck is stream of consciousness journaling. 

Are you on a journey to get to get unstuck in your life? If so, you might first need to figure out why you got to this point. It may be because you are holding on to a lot of negative emotions, like anger and bitterness. In order to feel free of this burden, you need to give forgiveness, then move on.

Meditations 7.29 states Blot out all imaginations. Stop the brutal impulses of the passions. Circumscribe the present time; and apprehend well the nature of every thing which happens, either, to yourself, or, to others. Distinguish between the material and the active principle. Consider well the last hour. The fault another commits there let it rest where the guilt resides.

Grief is sorrow that is felt whenever there’s a loss. This can be the loss of a relationship, the loss of an ideal or the loss of a loved one. Grief can be short term, chronic or crop up again years after you’ve experienced the loss. 

People grieve in different ways but when grief isn’t dealt with, it can impact your physical health. You’ll notice more aches and illnesses than normal. Grief can cause you to feel anxiety, anger, fear, and depression. 

What Stoicism does is to allow you to keep your mind on the present, on what you know to be true. It also shows that things like death are a reality.

Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations 8.37 “Was it not destined they should grow old and die? and when they should die, what would have become of their masters? What is all this for, but a nauseous bag of blood and corruption?”