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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy

that has guided some of history's greatest men and women

to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

For more, visitdailystoic.com.

The clock is ticking. Are you listening?

Today is that dreaded day, that day when the clocks spring forward. In the middle of the night, we lost an hour that we'll never get back, an hour of sleep,

of leisure, of time with our kids. And we mourn this lost time, imagining all the ways we might have spent it.

As if we hadn't already lost many

hours before that, as if our schedules weren't padded with so much waste and inefficiency already.

What this changing of the clocks should be with its earlier morning is a wake-up call,

a sudden change, a disruption, a chance for us to rethink,

re-examine, and re-invigorate. Instead of mourning that last hour, we can use it as a catalyst

for change, a symbolic moment to spring forward, not just in time, but in our personal growth and development. A whole season

has passed. Are we going to let that happen to us again without having something to show for it?

Let's hope not. You could be good today, Marcus Aurelius writes in meditations, but instead you

choose tomorrow. Come on. And look, the Daily Stoics Spring Forward challenge is here to

help you seize that moment, to not do that. It's not just about adjusting to a slight time change,

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