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

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

Nothing can get in the way of the mission. We have our job, we have our goal, we have whatever

it is that we're trying to do. And then we have other people, have our job, we have our goal, we have whatever it is that we're trying to do.

And then we have other people. We have circumstances. We have freak events and freak weather.

And these things can get in the way. They can disrupt that goal, mess up our plans, even eliminate

our job. But our mission, well, that can never be prevented because our mission is dealing with obstacles.

Our mission is to be a good person no matter what happens. Our mission is excellence always.

What this means, what Marx Reelis is trying to say in meditations, is that when something

gets in the way of the mission, we've been given a gift.

Fate is offering us fuel.

It's not hindering us in the least because our mission is bigger than this thing in front of us.

Our mission is, by definition, flexible and adaptable and yet also unchanging.

That mission might be raising your kids with character.

It might be serving your community with integrity. Might be building something. Company, a non-profit, a body of work,

the right way. Maybe it's rebuilding after a setback, telling the truth when it's inconvenient,

or simply refusing to let bitterness take root in your heart. Roals shift, titles change, but the mission never does.

Our mission is to show up.

Our mission is to be good.

Our mission is to be excellent.

So while circumstances can change what that looks like, nothing and no one can actually

get in the way of it.

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