Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

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. But all those moments are gone, just as your chance to plant that

tree two decades ago is gone. Missed opportunities, they belong to death, 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, now is an opportunity to start. This is what you deserve, Marcus Aurelius wrote.

You could be good today, but instead you choose tomorrow. But no, don't choose tomorrow. Choose to be

good today. Adopt the mindset of the great Stephen Pressfield who writes in his book, Put Your

Ass where your heart wants to be. Here is my frame of mind as I sit down to work. This is the day.

There is no other day. This is the day. Don't wait for the bus to come around next year.

Don't tell yourself you'll do it later. This is the day. Now is now. Now is the best time to start

being the person you want to be, which is actually why we're relaunching the

New Year, New You Challenge. Typically, we do it live the first 21 days of the year, but we've

actually found that most people abandon their New Year's resolutions by the 21st of the year.

So maybe that's you. Maybe you fell short. Maybe you delayed. Maybe you didn't even get started.

But now is the time.

We heard from a bunch of people. They came back from vacation late. They procrastinated. They changed your minds.

And they asked if we could bring it back or give them a second go at it. And that's what we're doing.

Today is the day. It starts today. It's your last chance to sign up. Sign up now, daily stoic.com slash

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