The Daily Stoic - You Can Seize This Moment

Episode Date: March 24, 2020

This is an email we weren’t expecting to send, but sometimes sudden events call for sudden responses. Right now you, and much of the world, are locked down, doing your part to fight the spread of COVID-19. Perhaps you’ve already been trapped inside for weeks. Perhaps you just got back the test results and now you are in complete isolation. Perhaps your job has furloughed you and you’ve got a lot of time on your hands. Things seem serious now, but the truth is, it’s only going to get more serious. All of us are looking at the potential for some serious lost time. Dead time, as Robert Greene calls it. But do we have to be? A Stoic knows that while we don’t control what happens, we do control how we respond. So that’s the real question: How can we use this time to get better? To grow? To be of service and use?   To create “alive time” where we’re actively getting better.With that end in mind, we have been scrambling to put together what we’re calling the Daily Stoic Alive Time Challenge: Resilience, Productivity and Service in the Time of Coronavirus. It’s 14 days—the length of the suggested quarantine—of Stoicism-inspired challenges, practices and reading that will help you grow and help you help others. If you’ve done any of our other challenges over the last two years, you know we pack them full of great content, actionable advice, and strategies to make the habits stick. This one will be all that… and incredibly timely. We’re taking our best material and the best insights from the Stoics and organizing it to help you make the most of this time we have. Why shouldn’t you emerge from this process having at least wrested from it some real advantages? Why would you kill time when you could be seizing that time? Why not use it to create better habits and a better perspective?Since there is little time to lose, we are putting the challenge on sale right now and starting it this coming Monday (March 30th). The more of us doing it together, at the same time, the better (people who sign up late can still do it, but they’ll miss some of the fun). We’ll create a Slack channel for sharing and holding each other accountable. And we’ll do a wrap-up call at the end to discuss keeping these good practices going. More important, we’re giving $5 of every sale (20% of all proceeds) to Feeding America. By doing this challenge together we can create what Marcus Aurelius calls a double bonus—doing good for ourselves and the people on the front lines fighting to keep us safe. Sign up today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. You can seize this moment. This is an episode we weren't expecting to put out, but sometimes sudden events call for sudden responses. Right now you and much of the world is locked down doing your part to fight the spread of COVID-19. Perhaps you've already been trapped inside for weeks. Perhaps you just got back the test results and are now in complete isolation. Perhaps your job has

furloughed you and you've now got a lot of time on your hands. Things seem serious now, but the truth is, it's only going to get more serious. All of us are looking at the potential of some serious lost time, dead time as Robert Green calls it. But do we have to be? A stoke knows that while we don't control what happens, we do control how we respond. So that's the real question, how can we use this time to get better, to grow, to be of service and use, to create a live time where we're actively improving rather

than simply passive and resigned and resentful? With that end in mind, we've been scrambling to put together what we're calling the daily Stoic a live time challenge, resilience, productivity, and service in the time of coronavirus. It's 14 days, which is the length of the suggested quarantine, of Stoic inspired challenges, practices, and reading that will help you grow and help you help others. If you've done any of our other challenges over the last two years, you know we packed them full of great content, actionable advice, and strategies to make habits stick.

This one will be all of that as well as incredibly timely. We're taking our best material and the best insights from the Stoics and organizing it to help you make the most of this difficult time we are in. Why shouldn't you emerge from this process having at least rested from it some real advantages? Why would you kill time? Would you could be seizing that time? Why not use it to create better habits and a better perspective. Since there is little time to lose, we're putting the challenge on sale now and it's starting this coming Monday, March 30th.

The more of us doing it together at the same time, the better, although people who sign up late can still do it, you'll just miss some of the fun. There'll be a Slack channel for sharing and holding each other accountable and we'll do a wrap-up call at the end to discuss and keep these practices going. We're going to give you exercises that help make you tougher, more resilient,

more community-minded, more productive. We're going to give you perspective. We're going to focus on improving your environment, improving your house, improving the way that you think, improving the way that you eat. We're gonna make you more prepared for things like this in the future, and we're going to help you, we're gonna push you to help make other people who are struggling, who are experiencing

the brunt of this worse. We're gonna help you help them. And more important, we're giving five dollars of every sale in this challenge. That's 20% of all proceeds to groups who are either supplying medical supplies to people fighting this virus on the front lines or groups that are supporting people who are suffering and need aid right now. So by doing this challenge, we can create together what Marcus Aurelius calls a double bonus,

doing good for ourselves and the people out there doing really important work. We really want to have you do this challenge with us. I'm going to be doing it every step of the way. I know I get a ton out of the challenges every time I do them. You can sign up right now at dailystoic.com slash alive time. That's dailystoic.com slash a live time, the challenge is cheap, but you will get so much out of it. Everyone does, whenever we do them, it's going to be thousands of stoics alongside each other,

helping, pushing each other, using this experience as time, this unfortunate circumstance, to derive some benefit or good to improve ourselves in it and to make the world a better place in the little ways that we can. So I strongly urge you to check out our daily Stoic Alive Time Challenge Resilience, Productivity, and Service in the time of coronavirus. You can check it out at dailystoic.com slash Alive Time. You got to move fast because this starts next Monday, March 30th. I'll see you soon. on music app today, or you can listen early and add free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts. Is this thing on check one, two, one, two. Hey y'all, I'm Kiki Palmer. I'm an actress, a singer, an entrepreneur, and a Virgo, just the name of you. Now, I've held so many occupations over the years that my fans lovingly nicknamed me,

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