Do It While You Still Can

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Wondery

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

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

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This is your moment to tip the balance - to move from darkness into light, from stagnation into growth, from winter's rest into spring's renewal.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad free right now.
0:05.0	Just join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.1	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:20.5	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:27.7	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy
0:31.6	that has guided some of history's greatest men and women
0:36.2	to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:41.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:49.1	For more, visitdailystoic.com.
1:08.1	Do it while you still can.
1:14.9	Winter has a way of lolling us into bad habits in old vices. Like bears and hibernation, we're burrowed deep in our comfortable routines. We found our favorite spot on the couch,
1:21.3	our go-to delivery meals, our perfectly temperature-controlled environments. We've mastered the art of avoiding the cold,
1:30.6	the wind, the discomfort. They call this the velvet rut, and it's soft and pleasant, but it's still a
1:37.1	rut. And yeah, after months of dark mornings and early sunsets, after trudging through slush and
1:43.7	scraping ice off windshields,
1:46.0	it's reasonable to seek shelter in these comfortable patterns. But the Stoics remind us that
1:53.2	true growth requires resistance. Just as seedlings must break through the soil, we must break
1:58.6	through and out these patterns. Nature doesn't stay dormant
2:03.5	forever. Neither should we. The idea is that we move with the seasons, and we must face the brisk
2:12.8	winds of change head on. And that's what the spring forward challenge that we do each spring with
2:19.5	Daily Stoic is about, not quick fixes, but it is about getting set for spring. And with 10 days
2:26.4	of Stoic-inspired challenges, one per morning, the idea is that you'll clear away some of
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