The Best Time Is Now | 9 Peak Performance Tips from Top Performers
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Obviously, the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The earlier you get started on something that takes time, the bigger and better the results will be.
As Seneca once said about the days that pass us by, "They are gone never to return." And that's sad. But as the second half of that expression about trees goes, the next best time is now. Today. Now is an opportunity to start. This is what you deserve.
Today, Ryan talks to some of the top performing athletes and coaches about the keys that they use to make the most of their days, and how you can apply their insights to your own life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom |
| 0:08.4 | designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.4 | On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual |
| 0:16.8 | lives. |
| 0:17.8 | Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:25.6 | The best time is now. |
| 0:29.6 | Obviously the best time to plan a tree is 20 years ago. |
| 0:32.7 | The earlier you get started on something that takes time, the bigger and better the results |
| 0:37.3 | will be. |
| 0:38.5 | It would have been better then, of course, if you had tackled the changes you needed |
| 0:41.8 | to make in your life in 2020 or 2021 or 2022. |
| 0:47.3 | January 1st, 2023, it's come and gone. |
| 0:50.5 | That would have been a great time to get started on new habits to make new changes. |
| 0:54.9 | It was a new year, a chance for a new you, a fresh moment, a fresh calendar. |
| 1:01.0 | But all those moments are gone, just as your chance to plant that tree two decades ago |
| 1:06.7 | is gone. |
| 1:08.5 | Missed opportunities they belonged to death, as Seneca once said about the days that pass |
| 1:13.5 | us by. |
| 1:14.5 | They are gone, never to return. |
| 1:17.4 | And that's sad. |
| 1:18.9 | But as the second half of that expression about trees goes, the next best time is now. |
| 1:27.2 | Today, now, now is an opportunity to start. |
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