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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom

every day 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 DailyStoke.com.

This is where you're supposed to be. We all feel pulled to do more, to go more places, to make more progress. We are

dogged by the constant worry we're in the wrong place doing the wrong thing or rather there's somewhere else somewhere better that we could that we should be.

It's a feeling that manifests itself in many forms, guilt, anxiety, envy, fear, insecurity, basically misery, the exact opposite of being content, happy or grateful of being present.

Marcus Aurelius knew this. Why do you think he mentioned the present in the present moment more than 20 times in meditations? Each time he was saying don't worry about the past, don't worry about the future.

Embrace what is in front of you right now. Be here now. He was saying don't be somewhere else. Be here and be here well.

It's a reminder we seem to need constantly. Our restlessness at an almost cultural level is depriving us of the gift and the beauty of the moment that is before us.

Instead of what we're doing with the full measure of our attention, we give it whatever fraction is not wandered away or been stolen by the device in our pocket.

And then we wonder why time flies by or why we have to return to clean up mistakes or why we never feel good enough.

Stop. Do what you're doing, whether it's washing the dishes or sitting in traffic or writing your thesis, be where you are, whether that's with your kids or in a career transition or at the doctor's office.

It's where you're supposed to be. In the right now, there is nothing else. Just this. In the right here, the present is all there is. Be here. Be there. Well.

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