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

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

You can choose right now. You could do it when things get warmer. You could do it when winter is officially over. You could do it when things calm down at work. You could do it after things get settled. You could wait for permission, for an excuse, for help. Or you could do it now. You could stop putting off what you've been procrastinating.

You could tackle what you know needs to be tackled.

You could clean up what is screaming to be cleaned up.

As the seasons change, as the clocks move forward,

as new growth appears on the trees,

there is room for other forms of renewal.

This is the time, the Stoics would say, right now is the time.

Otherwise, we are, as Seneca said, the fool who is always getting ready.

Epictetus, for his part, laid down a similar challenge. How much longer

are you going to wait to demand the best for yourself? Everyone knows there are things that we need

to reset, to improve, to be better at, to live better, to think better. Many of us even know what to do,

but maybe life has gotten in the way and we haven't followed through. So that's the question.

If we're not going to do it now, when are we going to do it? And I want to say that it's not too

late. You can stop putting it off, can stop waiting for things to happen. Someone has to take control. And that someone is you. Forget how the first three months of the year have gone. Forget the excuses you have made. Forget the compromises you have made. That's the lovely thing about the idea of

Springs renewal. It wipes clean the past. We have a chance to start fresh. And that's what we're doing.

Me and thousands of other stoics all over the world are doing the 2026 daily Stoic Spring Forward

Challenge. It's 10 days of Stoic-inspired challenges designed to help you get serious about the things you have been putting off to refocus, to reconnect, to renew. After a crazy winter, I was crazy at my house, I'm sure it was crazy for you. I think we could all use an opportunity to get back on track. And maybe you even procrastinate it a little bit on signing up for the challenge.

Well, this is your last chance.

Sign up for it.

I'll see you in there.

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