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't forget what you don't put off.

You didn't mean to lie.

You didn't mean to be late. You didn't mean not to do it.

It's just that, well, you forgot, as we almost always do. We plan to do it. We mean to do it. We just tell

ourselves that we'll do it tomorrow. The problem, as the Stoics remind us, is that we don't

control tomorrow. Stuff can come up.

We can get an unexpected email.

We get bad news from a friend.

We wake up to a sick child.

Even when things don't come up, distraction does.

We delay.

We drift.

We fail to do what we genuinely intended to do.

We do what Seneca warned that fools are always doing, getting ready to start.

We forget. The solution then, do it now. You can't forget what you don't put off. You can't

procrastinate something that's already done. You don't have to make excuses or apologize

if you just get started now.

So I told you I was at this Airbnb here in Maui on this trip we took and, oh man,

the mattresses were not good. I did not sleep well. The kids did not sleep well. I wish that they had helix mattresses. If you've ever slept on a helix, you will know why so many people love them. Basically, you take this helix sleep quiz that matches you with the perfect mattress based on your personal preferences and sleep needs. We've got the midnight mattress at our house.

It's medium firmness, not too firm, not too soft. And that's probably why it is their top selling

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