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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,

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.

Start the clock. Just start the clock. We don't like how long they're taking to get back to us.

It's slowing down the process, keeping us from doing what we want to do. We don't like the

estimate from the vendor who just told us it would be an extra six weeks over the initial projections.

Refreshed the investment advisor told us we won't hit our goal until later than expected.

And there's no question this is annoying. It may well be fixable if they could get their act

together, but we don't control that or that. You know what we do control, though? We control how

long it took us to reach out to get that bid. We controlled how long that thing was on our to do

list and the fact that we waited until now to get around to doing it. We're the ones who

hemmed in hot about the decision we're now Russian. A Stoic understands that they don't control how

long it takes other people to do things, but still they don't see themselves as powerless.

Know they embrace the power that they have, namely when they start the clock. Things take time.

So why add time by being indecisive by procrastinating, by sitting on things? You don't yell at

paint for drying slowly, urging it to hurry up because you have guests coming over. You finish

painting with enough time for it to do what it's going to do. And so it goes for life and other people.

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