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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast.

On Friday, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic.

My book, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Heart of Living,

which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, and a literary agent, Stephen Hanselman.

So today, we'll give you a quick meditation from the Stoics with some analysis from me,

and then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words into works.

Now that you know, do better.

We look back on things that we clearly messed up.

We were too preoccupied. We were too harsh. We were wrong. We didn't know.

And because we messed up, we feel guilty.

We regret what could have been. We're mad at ourselves. We wallow in pity or shame.

Dr. Edith Eger, the Holocaust survivor, cut through all of this with her graceful bluntness on the Daily Stoic podcast recently.

She's been on twice. Both episodes are must listen. As she said,

if I knew then, but I know now, I would have done things differently.

That is the end of that, she said. And so it must be for us.

Give yourself the gift of the present moment, Mark's Relious Wrote and Meditations.

Seize this second chance. Don't waste it on guilt because, as Dr. Edith said, guilt is about the past.

In the past is the one thing we cannot change. All we can do is do better now.

We can take the feeling we have now be it shame or regret or the heavy price of consequences and use it as evidence

as to why we must make the right choice today. All we can do is do things differently going forward.

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