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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrated with stories from history,

current events and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoke, intention for the week,

something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.

So let's get into it.

When are you going to get this together? It doesn't matter how old you are, it looms before you. Not death, although that's always there, but the future itself,

the future when you're not going to be so young anymore, when you're not going to want to be hustling entry level jobs anymore doing this or that kind of work anymore,

when you're going to have things you want to do, a house you want to buy, kids to send to college trips you want to go on,

a potential retirement. Look, at some point you're going to have to get it together. You know this, you're going to have to get your spending under control,

you're going to have to get your savings together, you're going to have to get your investments started.

But when? When? As Marcus really writes in meditations, we know what we need to do to be good today, but instead we choose tomorrow, we throw our lot in with the fools that Seneca talks about,

the ones who are always getting ready to start, but they never do. You never do. How long have you been saying some version of this to yourself about money and finance, about how you need to sit down and read that book?

Or fill out that paperwork for that account or follow up with that person or learn the difference between a Roth and an IRA and a 401k or cancel those services that keep showing up on your credit card or do something about those credit cards themselves,

the ones with the debt on them, the debt that keeps increasing and increasing.

Discipline growth success, these things are about starting. It's not magically transforming yourself.

It's not one big thing. Now all growth, all mastery comes slowly. It comes as a result of process, but it can only come if one begins.

If one takes the first step, starts the clock, gets serious. Not later, not tomorrow. Now, because the sooner you start, yes, the sooner you'll get results, but also as any finance expert can tell you the bigger,

the results will be because time and the compounding returns inherent therein is one of the most powerful forces on earth. Use it to your advantage or don't get it together today,

which is actually what I've been working on here at Daily Stoke. I think it's one of our most important and urgent courses that we built. This is the wealthy stoic, a daily stoic guide to being rich and free and happy, which will set you on a path, the happiness and prosperity using the wisdom of the stoics as well as the experts we've interviewed in the course as well as my own entrepreneurial and financial journey to wrapping your heads around money.

Around defining financial security, about taking the steps, doing the things you need to do to have that financial security. It's an awesome course. It's nine weeks. We're going to dive deep every single week. Emails for me, almost a book's worth of content.

We're going to look at how a slave became the richest stoic, how the richest man in Rome was actually one of the poorest stoics, the ambitions and the motivations that fueled the stoics, their understanding of money, how the stoics spent and saved, what they prized more than money, how they dealt with setbacks and adversity and uncertainty and risk.

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