Only Iron Sharpens Iron: Stoic Planner Vol. II

Only Iron Sharpens Iron is a Stoic planner for high achievers who want discipline they can actually keep.

Iron is not made strong by comfort. It is made strong by repetition, pressure and fire. This planner turns the daily practice of the Stoics into a system you can actually keep: an intention each morning, focused work through the day and an honest review each night.

Inside the planner

• Foundations: how to use the system, the four virtues, a signed page of who you intend to be and thirteen weeks at a glance.
• 91 daily pages: the one thing that makes today worthy, top three priorities, what is within your control, the obstacle you expect and your response, a schedule from 5am to 10pm, a midday check and an evening review.
• 13 week plans and 13 week reviews: character intention, three outcomes, virtue focus, habit tracker and a score for every virtue.
• Day 30, 60 and 90 reviews: keep, stop and start.
• Virtue ledger, dot grid notes and a closing page to carry your progress into the next volume.

133 quotes, never repeated

Every page carries a different line from the Stoics, taken word for word from respected public domain translations and cited by book and section. No misattributed internet quotes.

Formats

Digital edition: a hyperlinked PDF with a tab on every page for the index, all thirteen weeks and notes. Over 2,000 links, so every week is one tap away. Delivered instantly after checkout.

Printed edition: coming soon.

Works with

GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf and Xodo on iPad, Apple Books, Adobe Acrobat and any PDF reader. Print at home on US Letter or A4. Links work in iPad and desktop PDF apps; GoodNotes on Android and Windows does not support links.

Good to know

• Undated. Begin on any day of the year.
• US Letter, portrait, 134 pages.
• For personal use. Please do not share or resell the file.

Why this Stoic planner works

Only Iron Sharpens Iron is the flagship of a small collection of Stoic planners made to be used every day, not admired on a shelf. Every page draws on the same public domain wisdom you can read in the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, free on Project Gutenberg. New to the practice? Read our guide on how to use a Stoic planner.