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The Daily Stoic

Today Is A Miracle

The Daily Stoic

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Education, Business, Ryan Holiday, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Stoicism, 694393, Stoic Philosophy, Daily Stoic, Self-improvement, Stoic

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This is an incredible gift you have been given. A wonderful opportunity. Have something to show for the next 365 days. Have something to show for today.


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0:00.0

Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to The Daily Stoic early and ad free right now. Just join Wondery

0:05.9

Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day

0:15.4

we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom,

0:21.6

everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

0:26.5

history's greatest men and women.

0:29.0

For more, you can visit us, dailysteoac.com.

0:40.6

Today is a miracle.

0:44.4

It's kind of a funny tradition when you think about it, isn't it?

0:50.1

How we stay up late each year and count down the final seconds of the year together.

0:53.7

Five, four, three, two, one, happy new year. We cheer. We celebrate. It's a big show to mark the end, the year. But how many of us in a rush for a kiss or as the glasses cling together really feel what's just happened? Those seconds we were counting down where seconds will never get back.

1:11.0

Our time here, tick, tick, ticking away.

1:15.7

A year of our lives is gone forever.

1:18.9

Tempus fuget, memento, mori.

1:22.5

The Stoics did not take note of how fast time flies in the shortness of life to be morbid.

1:30.2

No, they sought invigoration,

1:35.8

they sought perspective, they sought clarity. Seneca said that if you went to bed thinking that you would live your whole life, the morning would feel like a bonus. We can apply the same thinking

1:42.8

annually. 2024 is dead and gone. Who we were in 2024 is dead and gone. Here we are lucky enough to rise

1:53.1

again in 2025, a year that perhaps many of us did not ever expect to see. We have beaten death. We have been given a fresh chance at life.

2:05.7

Who will we be? How will we spend it? This is an incredible gift you have been given, a wonderful

2:12.8

opportunity. Forget business as usual. Live. Have something to show for the next 365 days. Have something to show for today for this very moment.

2:27.3

And if you want to do something awesome and exciting, you want to step into 2025 with a vengeance. Why don't you join us in the Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge?

2:37.0

I already kicked off the year with a cold plunge into the Gulf of Mexico with my family.

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