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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.

There is no one last job. Just a few more years we tell ourselves just until I make enough money after I make rank almost there.

These are the lies we tell ourselves, the rationalizations for why we're doing the thing we hate or being the kind of person we'd rather not be.

Seneca did this. He took what was probably supposed to be a short gig tutoring a young prince because it would end his exile and ended up years later still in neurosurface time and time again. He must have told himself, I'll get out soon. Just let me get the boy on firmer footing. Just let me get through this console ship.

He was telling the lie that the brilliant comedian and writer Pete Holmes talked to me about on the Daily Stoke podcast recently. He called this the lie of one last job. It's the lie that bank robbers tell themselves just as comedians or musicians do one more tour, one more album that I'll slow down, but it never happens. It can't happen.

Seneca was never able to get out, never able to get free. He tried to give Nero his fortune back, but it didn't work only with death was he let go, let go from the addiction to power, the addiction to doing the fantasy of one last job.

You could leave life right now, Marcus, it really reminds us. We have to let that determine what we do and say and think as well as the jobs we take. Life is too short to be or do things you know aren't right that you know you aren't meant to do.

Don't put it off don't lie to yourself it will never happen unless you pull the trigger right now and that's what this exercise of momentum worry is about you touch that coin in your pocket or the ring or the pen on your neck it's supposed to remind you.

I might not get any more time and my glad to spend it this way is this what I was put on the earth to do as Marcus really said am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore and that usually gives us some very clear.

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