You Don’t Get To Do One Last Thing

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• 0:00Ryan Holiday?

  So I have a bunch of traveling I'm doing through the end of the year on Daily Stoic Live Tour. I just got back from San Diego. I like to stay in the places that I'm staying. I like to book places on Airbnb so I can be like a local. I not only do some of my best writing, but I learn about things that I wouldn't have known otherwise. When I was just in San Diego, I took a walk along the water, I bumped into someone who recognized me, and they told me about their favorite local bookstore, which was like two blocks from where I was staying, and I never would have known about it if it wasn't for that encounter. It was cool to me to think that I have helped facilitate that experience for many, many people coming to Austin over the years. The first house that I bought in Austin, when my wife and I first moved here, we would list it on Airbnb, and it

• 0:41Ryan Holiday?

  helped me make the transition from my corporate life to being a full-time writer. So if you're gonna be away, you should maybe think about listing your place on Airbnb. It can be a great way to earn extra cash while you travel, can offset the cost of your trip, or maybe even go towards whatever you're doing next. If you've got travel coming up, check out Airbnb. Your home might be worth more than you think, and you can find out how much at Airbnb.com/host. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

• 1:21Ryan Holiday?

  You don't get to do one last thing. It might be important to you, it might be long planned, maybe it's unfinished business, maybe even lives depend on it. But you know what? Life doesn't care. Your life doesn't care. People get cut down in the middle of a sentence. People get cut down in the prime of life. People get cut down before they have a chance to do something they really wanted to do that really needed to be done. "I can't die now," a recent US senator joked. He had a TV show to do, he had a bill he wanted to pass. Needless to say, that's not how it works. He passed away instead. "You could

• 2:03Ryan Holiday?

  leave life right now," Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations. Perhaps Marcus himself had meant to find some other way to address the succession issue. Perhaps he knew he needed to do something about Commodus. But you know what? The plague didn't care. And neither will the cancer inside you, or the drunk driver on the road, or the terrorist attack about to unfold. These things will not hold on a second to let you finish. They will not cooperate with your plans. They will not coordinate with your project. They will not accommodate what you have procrastinated. If you have unfinished business, if you have something you need to get to, get to it now. If it needs to be done, do it now. Because

• 2:42Ryan Holiday?

  now is your time. Now you can. No one is guaranteed tomorrow. That's why we have to make the most of today. Memento mori.

• 3:08Speaker 01

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