Do It While You Still Can

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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?

  Do it while you still can. Winter has a way of lulling us into bad habits and old vices. Like bears and hibernation, we're burrowed deep in our comfortable routines. We found our favorite spot on the couch, our go-to delivery meals, our perfectly temperature-controlled environments. We've mastered the art of avoiding the cold, the wind, the discomfort. They call this the velvet rut, and it's soft and pleasant, but it's still a rut. And yeah, after months of dark mornings and early sunsets, after trudging through slush and scraping ice off windshields,

• 1:38Ryan Holiday?

  it's reasonable to seek shelter in these comfortable patterns. But the Stoics remind us that true growth requires resistance. Just as seedlings must break through the soil, we must break through and out these patterns. Nature doesn't stay dormant forever.

• 1:56Ryan Holiday?

  Neither should we. The idea is that we move with the seasons and we must face the brisk winds of change head on. And that's what the Spring Forward Challenge that we do each spring with Daily Stoic is about. Not quick fixes, but it is about getting set for spring. And with 10 days of Stoic-inspired challenges, one per morning, the idea is that you'll clear away some of winter's accumulated habits, just as you would clear dead leaves from the garden. You can plant new patterns that will grow and flourish throughout the year. Yeah, the world is crazy right now, but as Marcus Aurelius reminds us, these external circumstances don't define us.

• 2:41Ryan Holiday?

  It's our response to them that does. And we have the power to transform challenges into opportunities for growth. "Stop wandering about," Marcus says to himself in meditations, perhaps on the eve of a seasonal change like this one. He says, "Get busy with life's purpose. Toss aside your empty hopes. Get active in your own rescue. If you care for yourself at all," he says, "do it while you can." This is the time. Do it now. We'd love to have you join us and thousands of Stoics all over the world in the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. The idea is it's going to help you with anxiety and stress, how to be present, how to get

• 3:23Ryan Holiday?

  after it, how to get active in your own rescue, as Marcus Aurelius said. So we'd love to have you join us and we'd love to have you stop procrastinating. Break out, break free, get cleaning, challenge yourself. You can sign up right now at dailystoic.com/spring. We start in less than 24 hours. Hey, just to thank you for being an awesome listener of the Daily Stoic Podcast, which I very much appreciate. We are offering a 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.

• 4:08Ryan Holiday?

  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.