Today Is A Miracle
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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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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