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

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

As winter fades and spring emerges as we adjust our clocks for daylight savings, it's a good

time to pause and reflect.

Where did that time go? It seems like only yesterday that we were bundled up against the cold,

watching the last leaves fall from the trees. Now the days are getting longer and the air feels warmer.

We talked recently about Philip Larkin's beautiful poem about the changing of the seasons,

how their circular renewal contains within them a kind of finality.

The winter you just had is over forever.

Those cold winter afternoons where you didn't want to go outside, where you didn't do anything,

where instead you waited for the temperature to go up, a break in the snow, you weren't

just killing time, that time was killing snow. You weren't just killing time.

That time was killing you. Seneca reminded himself that death is not this thing in the future,

but something that is happening now. It's always happening. It is the ticking hand of the clock.

It is the spring flowers. It's the fall harvest. It is the summer rains. It is the first snow

of the year. This idea is a reminder that each moment is precious. It tells us to wake up and really live, not just watch the time go by, to embrace the longer days and make the most of it. And if that's speaking to you, if you're feeling like that's something you want to do, well, I would love to have you join us in the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge.

This time of the year we're supposed to be thinking about spring cleaning, but how many of us get

our whole houses in order, not just our physical spaces, but our minds, our routines, our assumptions.

Think about how you spent the last week. How many of those days were as efficient and productive as they could be? Where did you waste time? Where did you make things more complicated than necessary? Where have you fallen back on old habits? Where are you, like so many people, still stuck in the doldrums of winter? Well, the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge, which we've been doing for many years now, is set to push you to examine those parts of your life, to examine your choices, to examine your relationships, and move you forward to living your best life to help you seize this new season that is upon us. We'd love to have you join us. It's going to be 10 challenges delivered every single day. It's not a long challenge. It's a short, to the point challenge that packs some punch. There's going to be a Q&A session with me. You should remember what Marks really said that, look, we could be good today, but instead we choose tomorrow. So it's up to you, whether you're going to let those New Year's resolutions dissolve into missed opportunities, or whether you're going to keep doing those things that you've always done. or, or you're going to give yourself a 10-day sprint of improvement

and some runway for true sustainable change.

Challenge yourself to be the person that can spring forward this year.

Spring forward to be that person.

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