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The Daily Stoic

You Don't Have Unlimited Time | What's Up To Us, What's Not Up To Us

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Business, 694393, Society & Culture, Daily Stoic, Stoic, Education, Ryan Holiday, Philosophy, Stoic Philosophy, Stoicism, Self-improvement

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This is what we do, isn’t it? We think about doing something…but we put off actually doing it until the last minute.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

0:11.7

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

0:18.8

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

0:24.2

history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

0:33.0

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

0:40.3

For more, visitdailystoic.com. You don't have unlimited time.

0:58.8

It happens every year.

1:00.4

It's kind of funny.

1:01.5

Even though we've been talking about it for weeks,

1:03.9

even though it's a time when people are making resolutions to stop procrastinating,

1:08.2

even though the deadline was clear,

1:10.1

it's the last two days of the year

1:12.1

where we see the most signups for the Daily Stoic New Year, New Year, New You challenge.

1:16.9

Like, far in a way, the most registrations. As I said, it's funny, but it's also a little

1:22.6

revealing, because this is what we do, isn't it? Like, we think about doing something.

1:28.1

We set a goal or an intention.

1:30.0

We know there's something that would do us good.

1:32.2

And then we put off actually doing it until the last minute.

1:36.6

Now, why is that?

1:37.9

Is it to give ourselves an excuse to not have to follow through?

1:41.5

Because we don't want to hear that we can't?

1:44.0

Because maybe we want to hear that we can't. Because maybe we want to hear

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