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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

Now is the time to sharpen your sword. It's when you actually need something that it's too late to get it ready.

It's in times of peace that nations are sharp in their swords. It's in times of prosperity that people must save money. It's in times of leisure that we have to be learning. It's before the onslaught that we need to be sure and up our defenses.

We've talked about this before, but there's a great exchange in the book Chicago by David Mammott. The characters having found themselves on the wrong side of a mob war are arming themselves and discussing where to hide a pistol for protection.

Then one reminds the other that the one phrase you never want to use when trouble arises is wait here while I fetch it.

It should be obvious to you by now that the next few months and years will be rough. We don't know exactly how rough but considerably rougher than they were last year and quite possibly rougher than they have been already. That's not going to be yours to control or to prevent.

What is up to you putting aside any failures or mistakes we may have made in the past is how ready you will be. Are you going to have a sharp sword or are you going to have to run and fetch something?

Are you going to be tucked inside a strong inner citadel or are you going to be looking envyously at other people who used their time wisely who prepared for the possibility of winter.

Marcus Aurelius said that philosophy made us like a boxer where we don't even need to stoop to pick up a weapon where all we have to do is clinch our fists.

Epic teetuses in Caribbean translates similarly at hand it's always ready to go which is how you have to be how you'll want to be for whatever the future holds.

And right now in the present now is the time to get ready to use this moment to prepare to sharpen to build to reinforce to learn.

And if you're behind better late than never they say the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. Well the second best time is today.

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