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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation,

but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Marks, Relious, Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

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Not much adds up. We all have something difficult we're trying to accomplish.

Whether it's starting a business or losing weight, finishing a creative project or building a barn, the mammoth task sits before us.

The very thought of its enormity is overwhelming. The thought of completing it, we can't even fathom.

The light at the end of the tunnel is nowhere in sight.

What should you do?

Do with the great and prolific author Rich Cohen does on the Daily Stoke podcast a while back, Rich explained how he's been able to so consistently be productive at such a high level.

Nine books so far, many of them best sellers.

He said he approaches a big project like he approaches a cross-country road trip.

The way you deal with long road trips, he said, is you set yourself a minimum number of hours a day, no matter how you feel.

The point is that not much adds up if you do it a lot. And that's what Marcus meant when he said, don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

All you have to do, he said, is stick with the situation at hand. He talks about how you assemble your life action by action.

No one, he says, can stop you from that.

But this metaphor, the road is a good one, because excellence is a road.

And there is a road to being a successful writer or entrepreneur, did that promotion or to that award, the road to finishing this task or that project.

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