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The Daily Stoic

A Sense of Urgency. A Sense of Urgency. | Practice True Joy

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Education, Business, Ryan Holiday, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Stoicism, 694393, Stoic Philosophy, Daily Stoic, Self-improvement, Stoic

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This is your life that sits before you. Time is ticking away.


📚 Books Mentioned:  The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living by Ryan Holiday


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues,

0:07.8

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

0:14.3

A sense of urgency, a sense of urgency.

0:19.8

It's remarkable. It's sad. It's entitled and irresponsible.

0:25.6

Even though things are moving very quickly, even though Tempest, fugit, time flies,

0:30.7

people are taking it slowly. People are hemming and hawn. People are putting things off.

0:36.8

People are acting like they can afford to do this,

0:38.9

as if they are not paying for their indecision and their slowness in their pocketbook and with their life.

0:45.4

The Smashing Pumpkins sang about how we had to live and love tonight's great lyric in the resolute urgency of now.

0:57.3

In the kitchen of per se, there's the famous sign,

1:03.8

a sense of urgency, and it's mounted beneath the clock. I think both these reminders are essential,

1:15.0

and so is Seneca's. The whole future lies in uncertainty, live immediately. This is your life that sits before you. Time is ticking away. Don't delay. Don't procrastinate. Don't make excuses. Don't be entitled. Only do what

1:22.7

must be done. What you do with the seconds ticking before you is the most important decision you will make

1:28.5

in your life. Act with resolution and urgency. Live while you can't. When you're a productive person,

1:42.3

when you've got a lot on your plate, you don't have time to be groggy or unfocused just because you had a couple of drinks the night before.

1:51.1

Cheers Restore after alcohol aid helps you have better mornings after drinking.

1:55.6

You take it after your last drink or before bed and then it works while you sleep.

2:00.8

Their claim to fame is that you

2:01.9

will feel 50% better or your money back. A lot of people think that dehydration is why you feel bad

2:08.2

in the morning, but the real reason is what happens in your brain and liver while you sleep. When

2:13.1

alcohol leaves your system, your brain goes into rebound mode, and that's what makes you feel bad.

2:18.0

And the DHS in Cheers works while you sleep to smooth out that rebound.

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