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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom and temperance.

And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time.

And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to work or to get the kids to school, when we have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Here I am on a weekend out a couple weeks ahead of where you're listening to this.

I've battled procrastination enough in my life that I try to actually anticipate and get ahead of things. One of the ways I record episodes of these podcasts is in advance in a batch. I'm not having to do it every single day. There's less room for procrastination.

You know, that word procrastination. It is a timeless concept as we're going to talk about in today's episode. The greats have been battling it all through history. The Stoic's fought against procrastination just as you fight against that impulse to put off to delay to get out of things you don't want to do.

And so today's episode is how we beat procrastination with Stoicism. How you get to a place where I was as a teenager and at different points in my life where I put off things, I delayed, I tried to shirk responsibilities or duties and got to a place where I'm always, I've always got a surplus.

I'm always ahead of where I need to be. I enjoy the work of it and, you know, I've beat the resistance to you, Stephen Pressfield's phrase. And so here today is how we beat procrastination with Stoicism.

People have been procrastinating for thousands of years. That's just part of the human condition. 20 centuries ago, Stoicism is the one thing that all fools have in common is that they're always delaying to live. They're always putting it off. They're delaying getting started because they'll get to a later. It's not that important. Someone else will take care of it. This is no way to do it.

Procrastination is a very real thing. We've always struggled with it. We continue to struggle with it. But that's not who you want to be. The things you want to do, no you have a limited amount of time. You know there are things you've been put on this planet to do. How do we beat procrastination? I think you start with the Stoic idea of tackling it in action by action.

Mark's really says, don't get crushed by the whole of life. Don't let your imagination get carried away. Step with the situation at hand. Say, why is this so unbearable? Why can't I end? You'll be embarrassed.

So I think oftentimes we get intimidated by stuff because we make it bigger than it needs to be. We think, well, what about this? And this and this and this. And then of course we don't do it. We put it off because we're scared, but we've made ourselves scared.

And so I think if you can zoom in your focus, you'll have a lot more luck. Right. So Nick Sabin talks about the process. This is the average down in footballs like seven seconds. Just do your job seven seconds. Don't let the timeline get carried away. Right.

And I think if we zoom way in on the task, we're going to have a lot more success. This ties into another Stoic idea. Just do a little thing. Casino says that a well-being is realized by small steps, but it's no small thing. Mark's really says, you know, assemble your life action by action.

If we can just do one little thing every day. Remember, Sena is saying that the path to wisdom is just acquiring one quote, one insight, making one bit of progress every day. If you can think that way, then the task is not so overwhelming. When I tackle a book, I don't go, oh, I have to write this huge book. It's going to be 80,000 words.

I'm going to have to go through multiple rounds of edits. I break it down into many, many different small composite pieces. The obstacle is the way is 32, 33 chapters. But I broke that down into three parts. And then 10 chapters in each part.

And then, you know, the beginning of the chapter and the end of each chapter. And I just try to tackle each one each day. There's a great rule in writing just two crappy pages a day.

You do two crappy pages a day. If I show up and write every day, publish pages come out of the backside. That's like a reality of the business. And realizing that, hey, crappy pages come out of the backside. If I show up, tackle a little bit each day. That's a really important thing.

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