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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStood.com.

You can't put things off. Do you know what one of the last things Abraham Lincoln ever

said was? As he sat in a box at Ford's Theatre as he waited for the play to start, Lincoln

turned to his wife and said, oh, how I should like to visit Jerusalem sometime. Within minutes

and a sassin would fire a bullet into his brain within hours, he would be dead. Now, of

course, there were many reasons why this great man never found time in life to visit Jerusalem.

He had to teach himself to read. He had to work himself out of abject poverty. He had

to conquer depression. And then the gravest threat to freedom, yet known in the United

States. He freed the slaves and made sure democracy would not perish from the earth. And

these are all reasons why he had to put off that trip till a later date. Just as you

have many reasons why you're awaiting to do this or delaying doing that. And yet life

has a way of stripping all our reasons bare of humbling our plans and assumptions. We

must live as Marx really said as if death hangs over us because it does. We cannot put

off till tomorrow. He said, what we can do today, whether that's being good or highest

priority or telling people we love them, we're going places we wish to go. No one knows

what the future holds. No one knows how much time we have left. So do not delay. Do

not wish. Do not wait. Do it now while you still have time. Well, there still is a chance.

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