The Daily Stoic - What Are You Spending Your Time On?

Episode Date: December 17, 2021

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What are you spending your time on? You pull it out of the fridge to throw it away, some food that expired two weeks ago. It's time to renew your car registration. You have to rip out a few pages of the calendar. Maybe the daily still calendar, as I did this morning, because you were away from the office for a few days. What are you looking at here? That expiration date, that pile of pages from the calendar? This is time. Time elapsed that you'll never get back. But more than elapsed, right? You spent that time on something.

What happened in the two weeks since the milk went bad? What do you have to show for the year these registration tags have been on your car? Sennaka said that we should never spend an hour of our time without knowing what the return was. He says, we can't waste the time. We can't let life just happen. We can't let the pages fall from the calendar. The days tick by because we'll never get them back. They belong to death now. This isn't to say that you have to spend every minute working

or focus exclusively on productivity. On the contrary, you have to live. You have to know what you're spending your life on. You have to be aware, or you will be caught, unaware. And you know, it's funny actually, the entry in today's Daily Stoic calendar, which I have here on my desk, and I'm about to tear off. It's a quote from Marcus who really says, let each thing you would do say or intend to be

like that of a dying person. And that's the Terri way page. And I'm going to keep that one because I love it. And I've had this calendar on my desk for the last two years since we started making them. People love them. You can check it out. These are the stoke quotes from each day's page in the daily stoke.

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