BONUS: Clock’s Ticking—You Listening?

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• 0:05Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a Stoic-inspired meditation, designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women, help you learn from them, to follow in their example, and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. For more, visit DailyStoic.com.

• 0:57Ryan Holiday?

  The clock is ticking. Are you listening? Today is that dreaded day, that day when the clocks spring forward. In the middle of the night, we lost an hour that we'll never get back, an hour of sleep, of leisure, of time with our kids. And we mourn this lost time, imagining all the ways we might have spent it, as if we hadn't already lost many hours before that, as if our schedules weren't padded with so much waste and inefficiency already. What this changing of the clocks should be with its earlier mourning is a wake-up call, a sudden change, a disruption, a chance for us to rethink, reexamine, and reinvigorate.

• 1:41Ryan Holiday?

  Instead of mourning that last hour, we can use it as a catalyst for change, a symbolic moment to spring forward, not just in time, but in our personal growth and development. A whole season has passed. Are we going to let that happen to us again without having something to show for it? Let's hope not. "You could be good today," Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, "but instead, you choose tomorrow."

• 2:09Ryan Holiday?

  Come on. And look, the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge is here to help you seize that moment, to not do that. It's not just about adjusting to a slight time change, but transforming your relationship with time so that you approach every day with a sense of clarity and purpose. Each morning, for 10 mornings, it's part of the challenge, you're going to be presented a daily challenge inspired by Stoic philosophy to help you build better habits, strengthen your mind, face your challenges, get new insights, break bad patterns, and achieve more of your goals. Hey, just to thank you for being an awesome listener of the Daily Stoic Podcast, which I very much appreciate, we are offering a

• 2:54Ryan Holiday?

  discount to anyone who wants to sign up for the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. We're going to kick spring of 2025 off with 10 days of Stoic-inspired challenges. And if you go to dailystoic.com/spring right now and enter code DSPOD20, you'll get 20% off the Spring Forward Challenge. It's going to be awesome. It starts on March 20th, so don't wait. I'll see you in there, dailystoic.com/spring with code DSPOD20 for the 2025 Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. Let's start off spring with a bang. I'll see you in there.