Don’t Let It Make You A Liar | Practice Silence
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
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You said you were going to take care of it. You said it would be done by the deadline. You set aside the time. You had every intention of doing it. But what happened?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visitdailystoic.com. |
| 0:59.2 | Don't let it make you a liar. |
| 1:01.9 | You said you were going to take care of it. |
| 1:03.7 | You said you'd be done by the deadline. |
| 1:06.1 | You told them not to worry about it. |
| 1:08.8 | Maybe you even made plans in your head. You set aside the time you had every intention of doing it. |
| 1:13.2 | But what happened? |
| 1:14.7 | You got distracted. |
| 1:15.9 | You fell prey to perfectionism. |
| 1:18.1 | You weren't feeling it. |
| 1:19.4 | Whatever it was, you procrastinated. |
| 1:22.4 | You didn't do it. |
| 1:23.9 | You let it make you a liar. |
| 1:26.7 | Really, two stoic virtues are at play here, both discipline and |
| 1:31.4 | justice. We give our word to someone or ourselves. Do we have the willpower to keep it? Do we have the |
| 1:38.7 | honor to keep it? Or do we let stuff get in the way? Do we make excuses? Do we not take our promises the fact that |
| 1:47.3 | others are counting on us seriously? Do we betray them or our potential? You get the sense that |
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