A guide to the Good Life: the ancient art of stoic joy

I've had this book for 10 years, and read it when I first bought it.  But it has come up a few times on various podcasts, so I took a look at it again.
Some of the strategies for Stoic living

• Negative Visualization this helps us to want what we already have and not take anything for granted
• spend time imagining things you have.  Your health, family, eyesight etc... 
• think about how much you would miss your eyesight, or ability to walk if they were gon
• pay attention to misfortunes that happen to other people and think about if they happened to you
• keep firmly in mind that everything we value will be lost to us eventually

• remember there will always be a final occurrence of everything we 

• Dichotomy of Control 
• only focus on your internal goals
• some things are out of our control (whether it rains)
• some things are partially in our control (how well we try at tennis)
• some things are in out control  our internal goals

• Fates
• learn to adapt ourselves to the environment in which fate has places us
• A "good man" will welcome "every experience the looms of fate may weave for him"

•  Epictetus says admiration of other people is a negative barometer of our progress as Stoics.  To be immune to insults also.
• Blame ourselves, not others, when our desires are thwarted.  We find we have fewer desires.

Mental Check list

1. Do we engage in negative visualization?
2. Are we careful to internalize goals? (meaning, how many pages you write a day, not whether others like it, etc..
3. Have we refrained from dwelling in the past?
4. Do we distinguish between things we have complete control over and no control or partial?
5. Do we practice the art of self denial? (This is where you purposely do without so you see that the worst may not be so awful.)
6. Daily meditations on our actions of the day and how skillful they were